Adelphi University is pleased to offer an array of prestige concerts and mainstage productions in April featuring world-renowned musicians, guest artists, faculty, and students in its 500-seat acoustically state-of-the-art concert hall, multipurpose black box theatre, intimate recital hall, and upgraded Olmsted Theatre in the new Performing Arts Center (AU PAC), 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. Below are all the ticketed events offered in April.

10 Minute

Play Festival

Thursday, April 2 to

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Black Box Theatre

April 2, at 7:30 p.m.; April 3, at 7:30 p.m.; and April 4, at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

This popular series returns with short plays submitted from around the country and selected for production by a committee of students, staff, and faculty. Mentored students direct, design, and perform in this groundbreaking theatrical event.

Last Seen

Sunday, April 5, 2009,

at 2:00 p.m., Concert Hall

This multi-disciplinary and multi-media event presents the work of Professors Jacqueline Jones LaMon (English) and Sidney M. Boquiren (Music) along with texts and videography that respond to the disturbing phenomenon of people who *disappear* whether as victims of crime or politics, or for unknown reasons. Faculty artists Jonathan Goodman, tenor, and William Zito, guitar, will present songs written for the occasion by Mr. Boquiren.

The Jupiter

String Quartet

Monday, April 20, 2009,

at 7:30 p.m., Concert Hall

In their final appearance of the season, the Quartet will perform related masterpieces which express emotional depth and spiritual vision, including Felix Mendelssohn's Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, Thomas Adés' Arcadiana, and Ludwig van Beethoven's Quartet in A minor, Op. 132.

Stage Door

Tuesday, April 21 to

Sunday, April 26, 2009

April 21, at 7:30 p.m.; April 22, at 6:30 p.m.; April 23, at 7:30 p.m.; April 24, at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; April 25, 8:00 p.m., and April 26, at 2:00 p.m., Olmsted Theatre

Stage Door, by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, directed by Adelphi Associate Professor Brian Rose, is a valentine to the legitimate stage that perfectly sums up the business of show business on both the East and West Coasts while illustrating the ever-present tension between theatre and film.

The Adelphi Chorus

Michael Hume, Director

Monday, April 27, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., Concert Hall

The program includes Bach's Christ Lag in Todesbanden with instruments, Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs, and Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine, with Adrienne Borbely, pianist.

For tickets, more information, and a full calendar of AU PAC season events, visit http://aupac.adelphi.edu/ or call the Box Office at (516) 877-4000.