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The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
directed by Max Webster

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

Max Webster (Life of Pi) directs this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance, filmed live from the National Theatre in London.

Celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2025, this Grammy-nominated, all-female ensemble will dazzle audiences of all ages with a rousing program of traditional Irish melodies and original arrangements. Enjoy virtuoso instrumentation, beautiful vocals, and spirited step dancing that has earned them recognition as the BBC’s “Best Musical Group of the Year” and the Irish Music Awards’ “Top North American Celtic Group.”

Led by Bronx-native Joanie Madden, a 2021 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award winner and All-Ireland flute and whistle champion, Cherish the Ladies captivates with their “passionate, tender, and rambunctious” (Washington Post) performances. Known for their heart, humor, and “heaps of music in their fingers and toes” (Glasgow Herald), this concert promises to be an afternoon filled with traditional Irish music and dance—bursting with energy, wit, and spirit. Don’t miss this electrifying performance that will have everyone tapping their feet and clapping along!

Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny. Tenor David Butt Philip is the political prisoner Florestan, sharing the stage with bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, and soprano Ying Fang and tenor Magnus Dietrich, in his company debut, as the young Marzelline and Jaquino. Bass Stephen Milling sings the principled Don Fernando, and Susanna Mälkki conducts the Met’s striking production, which finds modern-day parallels in Beethoven’s stirring paean to freedom. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Attention music lovers! We are proud to announce the lineup for the inaugural season of Split Level Concerts at JSAC! All shows will take place at JSAC’s Palaia Theater, 66 South Main Street in Ocean Grove, NJ. Showtime for all events will be 8:00 PM. Our entire season is listed below. Visit each artist's website to learn more.

Split Level Concerts, The Jersey Shore Arts Center and 90.5 The Night will also be partnering with Musicians On A Mission https://www.musiciansonamission.org for this series. Stay tuned to the station for details on how you can support MOAM at each show.

www.michael-mcdermott.com

https://www.coltonkayser.com

Saturday, October 19th – Steve Forbert www.steveforbert.com

Saturday, November 16th – Brian Dunne www.briandunnemusic.net

Saturday, December 21st – Griffin House www.griffinhousemusic.com

Saturday, January 11th – Jill Sobule www.jillsobule.com

Saturday, February 22nd – Maia Sharp and Antje Duvekot
www.maiasharp.com
www.antjeduvekot.com

Saturday, March 22nd – Michael McDermott www.michael-mcdermott.com

Saturday, April 26th – Rod Picott and Anya Hinkle
www.rodpicott.com
www.anyahinkle.com

Attention music lovers! We are proud to announce the lineup for the inaugural season of Split Level Concerts at JSAC! All shows will take place at JSAC’s Palaia Theater, 66 South Main Street in Ocean Grove, NJ. Showtime for all events will be 8:00 PM. Our entire season is listed below. Visit each artist's website to learn more.

Split Level Concerts, The Jersey Shore Arts Center and 90.5 The Night will also be partnering with Musicians On A Mission https://www.musiciansonamission.org for this series. Stay tuned to the station for details on how you can support MOAM at each show.

www.rodpicott.com
www.anyahinkle.com

Saturday, October 19th – Steve Forbert www.steveforbert.com

Saturday, November 16th – Brian Dunne www.briandunnemusic.net

Saturday, December 21st – Griffin House www.griffinhousemusic.com

Saturday, January 11th – Jill Sobule www.jillsobule.com

Saturday, February 22nd – Maia Sharp and Antje Duvekot
www.maiasharp.com
www.antjeduvekot.com

Saturday, March 22nd – Michael McDermott www.michael-mcdermott.com

Saturday, April 26th – Rod Picott and Anya Hinkle
www.rodpicott.com
www.anyahinkle.com

Come share your musical passions at Belmar Art Center's Weekly Open Mic and Music Workshop! Every Tuesday, sign-ups start at 7pm.
Attention songwriters and musicians, a new open mic is town. In addition to the monthly open mic we have, we are facilitating a WEEKLY open mic and workshop, every TUESDAY for artists to hone and share their amazingness and receive feedback. If you wish to share an original of yours, awesome. If you want to play a cover, great. You may want to just share an idea with a band to see what it sounds like. That's great. This open mic is designed for collaborators and experimentalist alike, to try new things, and be open to different possibilities. Join Multi-Instrumentalist Andy Demos every Tuesday Night.

This is a Belmar Arts Shared Interest group run by Andy Demos adreamos1@gmail.com
Please email Andy if you have any questions or concerns.

Guests are warmly welcomed for any two open mics but after that a membership to the BAC is required. ($35/year and goes to a great cause)

Come share your musical passions at Belmar Art Center's Weekly Open Mic and Music Workshop! Every Tuesday, sign-ups start at 7pm.
Attention songwriters and musicians, a new open mic is town. In addition to the monthly open mic we have, we are facilitating a WEEKLY open mic and workshop, every TUESDAY for artists to hone and share their amazingness and receive feedback. If you wish to share an original of yours, awesome. If you want to play a cover, great. You may want to just share an idea with a band to see what it sounds like. That's great. This open mic is designed for collaborators and experimentalist alike, to try new things, and be open to different possibilities. Join Multi-Instrumentalist Andy Demos every Tuesday Night.

This is a Belmar Arts Shared Interest group run by Andy Demos adreamos1@gmail.com
Please email Andy if you have any questions or concerns.

Guests are warmly welcomed for any two open mics but after that a membership to the BAC is required. ($35/year and goes to a great cause)

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive, Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

In the spirit of collaboration and appreciation for musical brilliance, we bring you our monthly concert series — pairing tunes from legendary masters of rock, along with some unsung heroes following in their footsteps. Settle in for an intimate vibe akin to MTV Unplugged, Storytellers and Behind the Music, as singer/guitarist Kevin Spyker performs timeless hits and hidden gems, accompanied by an array of instrumentalists from the Belmar Arts music collective.

Reserve your seats for our series launch on May 18th — highlighting the music of rock icon Tom Petty, with an opening set honoring the up-and-coming band known as Dawes...each month we will tribute two different bands.

Between songs we’ll share some history and fun facts about our featured songsters.

We’re honored to name our tribute series after the memorable Dawes song / album “All Your Favorite Bands” with the anthemic refrain:

“I hope that life without a chaperone is what you thought it'd be,

I hope your brother's El Camino runs forever,

I hope the world sees the same person that you've always been to me,

And may all your favorite bands stay together!”