Success has propelled McKay Imaging Photo Studio and Gallery to a new location in Red Bank. The studio will hold an open house at its new space on the second floor of 12 Monmouth St. in Red Bank on June 25 and 26. The firm was founded in 1996 by husband and wife photography team Robert McKay and Elisabeth Koch-McKay.
The studio is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For information, visit www.mckayimaging.com.
The English Department of Brookdale Community College is inaugurating the Novel Brookdale project by inviting the community to add Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones’ “The Known World” to summer reading lists. Jones will visit the College October 17 as part of the new Novel Brookdale project.
The college students, staff, faculty and administrators are encouraged to read the novel and to participate in a variety of activities in the fall. Copies are available at the Scroll and Pen college store located in the Donald D. Warner Student Life Center and major bookstores.
For more information about the Novel Brookdale project, contact Bettejane Bolan-Kenney in the English Department at (732) 224-2686 or by e-mail at [email protected].
Cabaret for Life Inc. will commemorate the centennial birthday of Allenhurst native and songwriter Dorothy Fields with a special production titled “Sunny Side of the Street: Dorothy Fields Forever.”
The cabaret dinner-show, which will raise funds for HIV and cancer research and treatment, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 30, Friday, July 1, and Saturday, July 2, at Doolan’s Restaurant in Spring Lake Heights. Tickets are $55 and can be reserved by calling 1-877-CLF-TKTS (253-8587).
The dinner-show will feature a cast of local singers, dancers and musicians with elaborate costumes and dance routines in a musical revue of 30 of Fields’ best songs.
There will be a special performance on Saturday, July 2, by Fields’ son, David Lahm, a well-known New York jazz pianist.
Established in 1995, Cabaret for Life is an all-volunteer organization that raises funds for service organizations that help people who are living with life-threatening disease, especially HIV/AIDS, through live musical theater. For more information on Cabaret for Life, call (732) 922-6390.
Hilarious confusion reigns at First Avenue Playhouse, 123 First Ave., Atlantic Highlands, where Marc Camoletti’s comedy “Don’t Dress for Dinner” is being presented every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening through June 25 at 8:30 p.m. with a Sunday matinee on June 12 at 2 p.m. (no performance Friday, June 10).
The play’s recipe for hilarious confusion combines some hanky panky, mistaken identity and, of course, dinner in a French country house.
Directed by Brian Breen, Long Branch, the cast includes Michael Chartier, Little Silver, and Robin Kellogg, Rumson. Tickets are $20 on Friday and Saturday and $15 on Thursday and Sunday matinees. The special senior rate of $12 is available for Thursday evening and Sunday matinees only. For information and reservations, call (732) 291-7552 or visit www.firstavenueplayhouse.com.
Two River Theater Company is offering a comprehensive theater program for students entering grades 6 through 12, taught by a staff of seven professional teaching artists.
The new educational program will explore seven different aspects of the theater: acting, improvisation, playwriting, movement, (unarmed) stage combat, technical areas such as costumes and makeup and clowning.
The three-week program is limited to the first 50 students who enroll for the classes, which will be held Monday through Friday, July 11 – 29, at the new Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Ave. in Red Bank.
The culmination of the program will feature students in a showcase on Friday, July 29. Enrollment fees are $250 for students entering grades 6-8 and $325 for students entering grades 9-12. Financial aid is available. For more information, contact TRTC’s Director of Education, Kate Cordaro at (732) 345-1400, ext., 814 or e-mail to [email protected].
The Monmouth Museum has planned a special summer bus trip on July 21, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to see the Chanel exhibition at the Costume Institute. The day includes a guided tour of the exhibition as well as lunch in the Petri Court Cafe.
The exhibition presents more than 50 designs and accessories from the Costume Institute collection, the Chanel Archives and other international collections. The bus will leave the museum, located on the campus of Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, at 7:30 a.m. and return at 4:30 p.m. Cost for members is $85, non-members, $95.
For more information or to make reservations, call the museum at (732) 747-2266.