The Union County Performing Arts Center is a gem in central NJ. It’s only 14 miles (and 19 minutes) from my house in West Orange! Here are some events they are sponsoring for the first week in April:
Union County Performing Arts Center presents
The Music Of The Beatles performed by THE INCREDIBLE SIMULATORS featuring Marshall Crenshaw, Liberty DeVitto & Glen Burtnik
WHEN: Saturday • April 2, 2011 • 8:00 PM
WHERE: UCPAC, 1601 Irving Street, Rahway
TICKETS: VIP $95, $45 & $35 (Ticket prices include all fees.)
Box Office: 732.499.8226 or visit www.ucpac.org
Don’t miss the debut performance of The Incredible Simulators featuring Marshall Crenshaw (right), Liberty DeVitto and Glen Burtnik. Among their countless musical accomplishments, Marshall Crenshaw and Glen Burtnik first met in the cast of the original Beatlemania—Marshall in the role of John Lennon and Glen in the role of Paul McCartney. Legendary drummer Liberty DeVitto is best known providing the beat for over three decades behind Billy Joel. Also playing in the Incredible Simulators will be Mark Muller on guitar (Shania Twain) and Mike Stein on keyboards. Opening the show will be Lisa Bouchelle.
Rahway Arts District presents
Fred Hersch – A Fazioli Piano Loft Concert
WHEN: Sunday • April 3, 2011 • 6:00 PM
WHERE: UCPAC, 1601 Irving Street, Rahway
Box Office: 732.499.8226 or visit www.ucpac.org
Pianist and composer Fred Hersch has been called "one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation" by Down Beat, and has earned a place among the foremost jazz artists in the world today.
Union County Performing Arts Center presents
Free Movie Night featuring The Phantom of the Opera
Starring Lon Chaney
WHEN: Thursday • April 7, 2011 • 7:00 PM
WHERE: UCPAC, 1601 Irving Street, Rahway
Presented as part of the Rahway Arts District’s First Thursday events. Visit Downtown Rahway on the first Thursday of every month and enjoy free fun: exhibits & performances, arts & crafts, food & drink, antiques & more.
Friends of the UCAC presents
Asbury Shorts New York's The NY Short Film Concert
WHEN: Saturday • April 9, 2011 • 8:00 PM
WHERE: UCPAC, 1601 Irving Street, Rahway
TICKETS: $15 general admission (Ticket prices include all fees.)
Box Office: 732.499.8226 or visit www.ucpac.org
Asbury Shorts, New York City’s longest running exhibition of award winning, independent short films, brings their NY Short Film Concert to the historic and beautiful Union County Performing Arts Center. Don’t miss this exhibition of international award winning short films from the past 12 years! “Best of Sundance!” “Best of Tribeca!” “Best of London!”
An evening of new short films sprinkled with a few classics...just like a concert.
Featured short films include Backwards (above), an international festival award winning animated short from acclaimed animator Aaron Hughes; Anything You Can Do, the story of a rambunctious young woman who needs to do everything better than anyone else, by filmmaker Evan Buxbaum; and Love Does Grow on Trees, a coming of age story about a teenager who becomes obsessed with adult magazines, from British filmmaker Bevan Walsh.
Rahway Arts District presents
Robert Glasper – A Fazioli Piano Loft Concert
WHEN: Saturday • April 16, 2011 • 8:00 PM
Glasper comes informed by the broad range of influences that a jazz musician of his generation inevitably does, with deep jazz roots and the sometimes subconscious influence of having grown up also listening to hip hop, R&B and alternative rock.
