Madison Theatre

Give Our Regards to Broadway: Salute to Sondheim
2022-10-09 15:00 (America/New_York)
This HIT Series returns to the Madison stage with our salute to the great Stephen Sondheim! Featuring Broadway stars and our CAP21 Studio Company singing hits from award-winning musicals such as Into The Woods, West Side Story, and more! With narration by Angelo Fraboni, the evening guides you through the musical explosions of Sondheim with antidotes on how these great musicals made it to the forefront.

THEODORE'S BOOKS PRESENTS: Ralph Macchio LIVE at The Madison Theatre
2022-10-17 19:00
Theodore’s Books of Oyster Bay presents an evening with star of The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai, Ralph Macchio as he discusses his new memoir Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me. Following the discussion, Ralph will do a meet & greet with a photo line for ticktholders.
*SPECIAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED!
DOORS: 6:30PM
SHOWTIME: 7:00PM
A ticket for this event includes a signed copy of Waxing On, which you will receive at the event. No books will be personalized and no memorabilia will be signed. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at The Madison Theatre the night of the event.

Nelson DeMille
2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:00
On The Road Book Events presents Nelson DeMille in conversation with Carol Hoenig.
In his dazzling #1 bestseller, Plum Island, Nelson DeMille introduced readers to NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey, who we first meet sitting on the back porch of his uncle’s waterfront estate on Long Island, convalescing from wounds incurred in the line of duty.
Fast forward through six more bestselling John Corey novels and The Maze opens with Corey on the same porch, but now in forced retirement from his last job as a Federal Agent with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Corey is restless and looking for action, so when his former lover, Detective Beth Penrose, appears with a job offer, Corey has to once again make some decisions about his career—and about reuniting with Beth Penrose.
Inspired by, and based on the actual and still unsolved Gilgo Beach murders, The Maze takes the reader on a dangerous hunt for an apparent serial killer who has murdered nine—and maybe more—prostitutes and hidden their bodies in the thick undergrowth on a lonely stretch of beach.
Each ticket includes a signed copy of The Maze.

Molloy University CAP21 Presents: Cabaret
2022-10-29 14:00 - 2022-10-30 15:00

Laura Benanti and Seth Rudetsky
2022-11-05 20:00
Tony® Award-winner and five-time Tony® Award nominee Laura Benanti is a highly celebrated stage and screen actress. She can currently be seen in HBO Max’s much awaited Gossip Girl reboot.
Seth is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio’s On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz, and Phantom.

Anniversary with Scott Jackson Wiley Concert
2022-11-12 19:00
Featuring conductor Scott Jackson Wiley, violin soloist Ming Feng Hsin, and Brahms Violin Concerto and Symphony, this is a performance you won’t want to miss!

Dancing Lotus - Celebrating Asian Choreographic Voices
2022-11-13 15:00
An Explosion of Dance through the creative palate of 3 Asian choreographers, designers and musicians. Artists Jessica Chen, Rohan Bhargava, and Mai Le’ Ho find their voices through movement.

MIRACLES AT THE MADISON
2022-11-18 19:00
Have you been looking for a miracle? Well look no further. This fall, Amazing Journeys Youth Center is excited to bring a Gospel Concert like none other to the Madison Theater at Molloy University: “Miracles at the Madison”!
Miracles at the Madison will be featuring the world-renowned, award-winning, Billboard Charting, Gospel singer-songwriter, Jonathan Nelson. Additional features who will hit the stage are Serena Tyson, Justin Bell-Risper & Promise Land, Felisha Farrar, Jasmine Rae, Self Dialect, and Royal Kidz Collective. Get ready for riveting and captivating performances of song and dance that will warm the heart, satisfy the soul, and leave you expecting a miracle.
Come and get your “Miracles at the Madison” on Friday, November 18th, 2022!

Kirk Whalum
2022-11-19 20:00
Kirk is the recipient of numerous awards and acknowledgments for his musical excellence including three Dove Award nominations, an NAACP Image Award nomination and has won two Stellar Awards-Gospel music’s highest honor. A twelve-time Grammy® Award nominee, Kirk won his first Grammy® Award (2011) for Best Gospel Song (It’s What I Do ––featuring Lalah Hathaway) alongside life-long friend and gifted songwriter, Jerry Peters. Kirk has also been honored with a Brass Note on the Memphis Walk of Fame and a Star on the Nashville Walk of Fame. In a career spanning decades, Kirk has a sound that is uniquely his; it is a sound that leaves an indelible imprint on the listener.

2023 Miss Long Island & Miss Long Island Teen USA Pageants
2022-11-20 15:00
Join us as we crown the next Miss Long Island USA and Miss Long Island Teen USA 2023 Queens!
Bring a donation to Island Harvest to help the Long Island Community during the holiday season! Collection bins will be located in the lobby! Together, the Miss Long Island Pageants community can make a huge impact!
Miss Long Island Pageants has a rich history of crowning role models on Long Island who are passionate about their communities. Reigning Queens, Nadgeena Jerome, Miss Long Island 2022 and Jessica Fuentes, Miss Long Island Teen 2022 have truly positively impacted the Long Island community!
Support the young women of Long Island and their platforms and see who is next to take home the crowns!

The Doo Wop Project
2022-11-27 15:00
The Doo Wop Project is a band of five guys singing harmonies in an entertaining evening full of magic and awe from the charismatic power of this talented group. Some of their classic 60s hits are Randy & The Rainbows’ Denise, Thurston Harris’ Little Bitty Pretty One, The Skyliners’ Since I Don’t Have You, and The Capris’ Morse Code of Love. They always have remakes of more modern songs; for example Amy Winehouse’s Valerie, Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel, and Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours.

Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet 2022
2022-12-02 19:00 - 2022-12-04 15:00
We continue our tradition of ringing in the holiday season with Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet, The Nutcracker, in the beautiful Madison Theatre of Molloy University. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Joan MacNaughton, international ballet stars are joined by gifted young dancers from all over the metropolitan area. The South Shore Symphony will brilliantly bring to life the composer’s extraordinary music. This magical extravaganza is a must for everyone!

Elf, The Musical
2022-12-17 15:00 - 2022-12-23 19:00
ELF The Musical is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Unaware that he is actually human, Buddy’s enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father, discover his true identity, and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas. This modern day Christmas classic is sure to make everyone embrace their inner ELF.
December 17th, 3pm performance is a PREVIEW

An Evening with Branford Marsalis 2022
2023-01-20 20:00
Known for the telepathic communication among its personnel, deep book of original music replete with expressive melodies and provocative forms, and an unrivaled spirit, the Branford Marsalis Quartet has long been recognized as the standard to which other ensembles of its kind must be measured.

The Prayers of a Mother
2023-01-21 18:00
Marissa Danielle Jackson Productions Presents
The Prayers of a Mother Stage Play
An inspirational production based on a true story of a struggling family who knew the only way to make it out was through Faith and Prayer…
Trust, Forgiveness, Loyalty, Mental Health, Sickness, Love….
Written and Produced by:
Marissa D. Jackson

Molloy Performing Arts Club Presents: Grease
2023-02-02 19:00 - 2023-02-04 20:00
Molloy Performing Arts Club presents… Grease!
The 1978 hit film starring John Travolta and the late Olivia Newton John is brought to the Madison Theatre stage by MPAC, featuring Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: the duck-tailed, hot-rodding boy gang called the “T-Birds” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers. This rollicking musical evokes the look and sound of the 1950’s, recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new “good girl” Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their “Summer Nights”, but they struggle to cross clique lines. The cast sings and dances their way through classics such as “Greased Lightnin’”, “We Go Together”, “Born to Hand-Jive”, and “You’re the One That I Want”. An eight-year run on Broadway, two subsequent revivals, along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among the world’s most popular musicals.

Jessamine Chan – The School of Good Mothers
2023-02-09 19:00
Jessamine Chan, author of The School of Good Mothers, will be in conversation with author Carol Hoenig in celebration of the paperback release of this searing and surreal novel. Chan is a former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and a BA from Brown University. Bring your book club to this special event!
Time: 7PM, This event will be held in Molloy University’s Larini Room in the Public Square Building
Includes light refreshments and an autographed copy of The School of Good Mothers.
*This event will be held in the Larini Room, on the 2nd floor of Molloy University’s Public Square Building*

40th Anniversary SSS Concert
2023-02-11 19:30
With conductor Scott Jackson Wiley, featuring Nights in the Garden of Spain (De Falla), La Boutique (Respighi), Firebird Suite (Stravinsky), the South Shore Symphony concert will definitely be a memorable occasion.

Mary Calvi – If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
2023-02-15 19:00
On The Road Book Events presents Mary Calvi
If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love
Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee—many of them never-before-published and long-believed destroyed—If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy.
Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother’s generation. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. Native New Yorker, Harvard student Teddy Roosevelt, is on his own journey of discovery, and when they meet, unrelenting currents of love change the trajectory of his life forever.
If a Poem Could Live and Breathe is an indelible portrait of the authenticity of first love, the heartache of loss, and how overcoming the worst of life’s obstacles can push one to greatness never imagined.
MARY CALVI is a 12-time New York Emmy award-winning journalist and national anchor for WCBS-TV and weekend anchor of Inside Edition. Her in-depth research for her debut book, DEAR GEORGE, DEAR MARY: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love, is the basis of a Smithsonian Channel documentary.
Each ticket includes a signed copy of Mary’s newest book If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love.
*This event will be held in the Larini Room, on the 2nd floor of Molloy University’s Public Square Building*

Molloy University CAP21 Presents: Head Over Heels
2023-03-11 14:00 - 2023-03-12 15:00
A jukebox musical featuring the songs of The Go-Go’s and based on Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, Head Over Heels is the story of what happens when the royal court of Arcadia is threatened by the mystical Oracle of Delphi with the loss of its “Beat,” the divine power that ensures the kingdom’s prosperity. King Basilius, whose own title is at stake, forces the members of the royal family and court on a journey to the woods in an attempt to escape the Oracle’s seemingly unavoidable prophecies. Through a plot containing usurped kingship, unlikely lovers, and gender-fluid disguises, Head Over Heels preaches unconditional love and acceptance of yourself and everyone you know, no matter their gender or sexual identity, and uses some of the greatest pop rock hits of the late 20th century.

Orchestral Glory featuring our own Jeffrey Kautz, Timpani soloist
2023-03-25 19:30
With conductor Scott Jackson Wiley, the show features many numbers, including Raise the Roof (Michael Daugherty), Concerto for Orchestra (Bartok), and Appalachian Spring (Copland).

Brian Stokes Mitchell & Seth Rudetsky
2023-03-31 20:00
Dubbed “the last leading man” by The New York Times, two-time Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell has enjoyed a career that spans Broadway, television, film, and concert appearances with the country’s finest conductors and orchestras.
He received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards for his star turn in Kiss Me, Kate. He also gave Tony-nominated performances in Man of La Mancha, August Wilson’s King Hedley II, and Ragtime. Other notable Broadway shows include Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jelly’s Last Jam, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Shuffle Along. In 2016 he was awarded his second Tony Award, the prestigious Isabelle Stevenson Tony for his Charitable work with The Actors Fund. That same year Stokes was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
An extremely versatile and in-demand singer, Stokes has performed at venues spanning jazz, opera, pops, country, and musical theater worlds. He has worked with John Williams, Marvin Hamlisch, Gustavo Dudamel, Keith Lockhart, Michael Tilson Thomas, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Big Band, The Mormon Tabernacle choir and the Muppets. Stokes has made multiple appearances at Carnegie Hall beginning with his debut with the San Francisco Symphony through his televised performance in South Pacific opposite Reba McEntire to his sold-out solo concert, which he continues to perform throughout the U.S. He has been invited twice to perform at the White House (both times aired on PBS’s “Great Performances”) and has performed multiple times for Presidents Clinton and Obama.
Stokes has delved deeply into various music disciplines. In addition to singing he began piano studies at the age of 6. A self-professed autodidact, his musical curiosity led him to teach himself composing, arranging and orchestration, starting in his teens. He later studied, Film scoring, orchestration, and conducting both privately and through UCLA and subsequently scored and conducted a number of “Trapper John, MD” episodes, a series on which he was also a regular cast member. His musical talent has extended to the present day as producer, arranger and orchestrator on his three solo albums including Simply Broadway and his latest recording Plays With Music. Stokes has appeared on more than 20 albums.
His extensive screen credits began with a guest starring role on “Roots:The next Generations”, followed by a 7-year stint on Trapper John, MD and have continued with memorable appearances on everything from PBS’ Great Performances to The Fresh Prince, Frasier, Glee, Jumping the Broom and his most recent recurring roles on Madam Secretary, Mr. Robot, The Path, Billions and The Good Fight. Other recent TV appearances include The Blacklist, Elementary, and Bull. As a voice-over artist he has played dozens of characters on animated TV episodes including performing “Through Heaven’s Eyes” in Dreamwork’s “The Prince of Egypt.”
As a writer Stokes has contributed to the book Hirschfeld’s Harlem, wrote the preface to At This Theatre, and co-authored the children’s book Lights on Broadway.
For fun he has been known to fly planes and jump out of them (usually not at the same time), and he can ride a bicycle on a high wire.
Stokes has enjoyed working with numerous charitable organizations from the March of Dimes to the USO. He is on the board of Americans For the Arts and is serving his 16th term as Chairman of the Board of the Actors Fund.

A Dream is a Wish Princess Concert
2023-04-15 09:30 - 2023-04-16 15:00
The enchanting concert A Dream Is A Wish is returning to the Madison Theatre, with new adventures and Disney Classics.
Come sing along to all your favorite Disney songs such as Let It Go, A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Part of That World, Something There, A Whole New World, I’m Almost There, How Far I’ll Go, I See The Light and many more…
You will be tapping and singing along as we take you through a magical journey, and you’ll even get to meet your favorite princess!!!
There is a limited number of Breakfast and Tea tickets that include the Concert, so get your tickets now!

40th Annual Asbury Shorts Film Festival
2023-04-21 19:30
Asbury Shorts USA, New York City’s longest running short film exhibition and touring show will continue the celebration of its 40th Anniversary with a return to the Madison Theatre at Molloy University on Friday April 21, 2023. “The 40th Anniversary Asbury Short Film Concert” will feature a mix of specially selected, globally honored short films from the past & present. The world’s finest short film comedy, drama and animation award winners… all in one sitting.
“The best short film show I’ve ever experienced.” Jason Reitman – Oscar nominated Hollywood director (“Ghostbusters Afterlife” “JUNO” “Thank You for Smoking” “Young Adult” “Up in the Air”).

Unity through Diversity: Celebrating All Abilities in the Arts
2023-05-05 18:00
The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy at Molloy University presents the 4thAnnual Unity through Diversity: Celebrating All Abilities in the Arts. This inclusive event will feature artwork and performances from members of the Rebecca Center for Music Therapy, Molloy University members, and community groups. Join together in a night of music and art in support of the neurodivergent community. The first hour will include an art gallery, sales by local vendors, raffles, and t-shirt sales. The second hour will include musical performances. All proceeds will benefit the TRC Client Scholarship Fund.
Ticket Prices:
$15 Advanced tickets by March 31st
$20 tickets by April 26th (No tickets can be purchased online anymore at this point)
$25 at the Door
To watch the music performances live from home: $25 per household
Molloy students will get $5 tickets at the box office when they present a Molloy ID.

Rent, The Musical
2023-05-13 14:00 - 2023-05-14 15:00
Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan’s East Village in the thriving days of bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
Rent is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.mtishows.com

The Prayers of a Mother, An Encore Presentation
2023-06-03 17:45

Wiesenthal
2023-06-11 15:00 - 2023-06-12 19:00
The Simon Wiesenthal Center Presents:
Wiesenthal
A One-Man Show
Written and Performed by Tom Dugan
Simon Wiesenthal escaped death at the hands of Hitler’s S.S., lost 89 family members, and devoted more than six decades to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Part memoir and part spy thriller, Wiesenthal introduces us to him on the day before his retirement as he welcomes his final group of Americans to his office in The Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna.
All proceeds go to forwarding the work of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

SWINGTIME BIG BAND - SWINGIN’ ON HOME
2023-07-09 15:00
We’re excited to welcome back Swingtime for their 16th Madison Theatre appearance! Our dynamic 20-piece ‘house band’ will celebrate this musical homecoming with a program of swingin’ hits from the Great American Songbook–all focused on the concept of ‘Home.’ Led by Artistic Director Steve Shaiman, the band will be “Flyin’ Home” with music of Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Harry James, and Stan Kenton, and their engaging vocalists will salute such ionic singers as Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, and the immortal Frank Sinatra.

LI Comedy Presents: Mom’s Night Out
2023-07-20 20:00
Featuring
Ellen Karis – “Greek Goddess of Comedy”; NYC comedy scene
Kendra Cunningham – Last Comic Standing; Jimmy Fallon Show; Dry Bar Comedy Special
Maria Walsh – “America’s Naughtiest Mommy”; Vegas’ Next Big Act; National headliner
Maureen Langan – HBO; Caroline’s NYC; Dry Bar Comedy Special; National headliner
Calling all Mom’s! Join us for a night to relax and have a few laughs.
