Staller Center’s Annual Gala features one of Broadway’s finest talents, Bebe Neuwirth, in her show, “Stories with Piano,” on Saturday, March 10, at 8 pm. The multi-talented actress; singer; dancer; and star of Broadway, movies and television, is best known for her acclaimed roles in Sweet Charity, Chicago, Damn Yankees, The Addams Family, and as [...]

Stony Brook Opera will present La tragédie de Carmen, Peter Brook’s brilliant adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen, on Thursday, February 16, at 7 pm at the Southampton Cultural Center, and on Saturday, February 18, at 8 pm at Staller Center. Timothy Long, associate professor of music, will conduct the cast and members of the Stony [...]

With the Emerson String Quartet long established as quartet-in-residence in Stony Brook University’s Department of Music, Long Islanders are fortunate to enjoy one of the world’s most renowned quartets performing in their neighborhood. Their next concert in the Staller Center Recital Hall is Wednesday, February 8, at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $42, available at  (631) [...]

Work by eight graduate students of fine arts will be exhibited in the University Art Gallery in the Staller Center from Tuesday, February 7, through Wednesday, February 29. A reception honoring the artists will be held on Saturday, February 11, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. MFA Thesis Exhibition 2012 includes paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, [...]

Pilobolus, a dance company known for its imaginative and athletic style that springs from group collaboration, comes to the Main Stage at Staller Center on Saturday, February 4, at 8:00 pm. Their unique work uses the body to intertwine and create shapes through weight sharing, seemingly breaking all the rules of gravity. The program at [...]

To mark the 100th anniversary of Jackson Pollock’s birth, the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center is presenting a series of special events throughout 2012. For more information, visit www.pkhouse.org. Saturday, January 28, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Jackson Pollock’s Centennial Birthday Party, Springs Community Presbyterian Church January 28 through May 15 Memories Arrested in Space: [...]

Chucho Valdés and The Afro-Cuban Messengers come to the Staller Center Recital Hall on Sunday, January 29, at 7:00 pm. Valdés, hailed as the Dean of Latin Jazz and one of the world’s great virtuosic jazz pianists, is a multi-Grammy Award winner who has recorded more than 80 CDs during his illustrious career. He has [...]

A seasonal tradition at Stony Brook will feature members of the University Orchestra and selected vocal soloists and conductors in a performance of Handel’s Messiah on Sunday, December 11, in the Recital Hall at Staller Center at 3:00 pm. The audience is the chorus. Conductors will include graduate students Enrico Sartori and Joshua Schwalbach along [...]

To commemorate the 2012 centenary of Jackson Pollock‘s birth, the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Nagoya, Japan, is presenting “Jackson Pollock: A Centennial Retrospective,” an exhibition of more than 60 of his works, including all those in Japanese collections and loans from around the world. Organized by Aichi curator Tetsuya Oshima, the exhibition will [...]

Tapestry, a vocal ensemble of women called “utter perfection” by Gramophone magazine, presents the operatic cantata, “The White Rooster,” and “Song Of Songs: Come Into My Garden, A Portrait of Sensual and Spiritual Love” in the Staller Center Recital Hall on Sunday, December 4, at 3:00 pm. “The White Rooster,” by composer Sheila Silver, was [...]