Mason Gross returns to the NBPAC stages for the spring 2023 semester, featuring concerts, performances, and screenings from our faculty, students, and guest artists.
Tickets go on sale January 17, 2023.
Opera Theater Rutgers with Rutgers Symphony Orchestra: La bohème
7:30 p.m. February 9–11
2 p.m. February 12
Puccini’s beloved story of young love, friendship, and sadness reset during the 1918 influenza outbreak. A tribute to those lost to the COVID pandemic.
Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater at NBPAC
General Public $15 / Rutgers Alumni, Employees, and Seniors $10 / Students $5
Visiting Filmmaker Series
7 p.m. March 20
Rutgers Filmmaking Center presents a screening of the film Never Rarely Sometimes Always, followed by a Q&A with its director, Eliza Hittman.
Arthur Laurents Theater at NBPAC
Free (tickets required)
Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland
7:30 p.m. March 31 & April 1
Featuring a performance of Look Who’s Coming to Dinner, a theatrical dance work inspired by the similarly named 1967 Stanley Kramer film that delves into complex human relationships within the context of social, political, and racial issues.
Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater at NBPAC
Public $25 // Rutgers Alumni/Employees & Seniors $20 // Students $15
Rutgers Theater Company: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
7:30 p.m. April 27–29
2 & 7:30 p.m. April 30In an encounter with three witches, Macbeth learns that he will rise in power and become a king. But to see the prophecy to its end brings paranoia, pain, madness, and murder upon murder. Shakespeare’s great tragedy of ambition and its consequences is also a fast-paced thriller of historic proportions.
Production supported by Leora M. Sies Theater Fund.
Note: This production was originally scheduled to be Merry Wives of Windsor.
Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater at NBPAC
Watch the trailer.
Public $25 // Rutgers Alumni/Employees & Seniors $20 // Students $15
BFA Freshman/Transfer Filmmaking Showcase
7 p.m. April 30
Arthur Laurents Theater at NBPAC
Free (tickets required)
BFA Filmmaking Thesis Showcase
6 p.m. May 1
Arthur Laurents Theater at NBPAC
Free (tickets required)
New Lens Film Festival
7 p.m. May 2
This annual faculty-selected competition features student films from narrative, experimental, and documentary genres, all of which are eligible for prizes awarded by the faculty jury.
Arthur Laurents Theater at NBPAC
Free (tickets required)