Category Archives: Arts & Entertainment

Keep up to date with the arts events in the Rumson-Fair Haven area.

Arts & Entertainment, Schools Scene

Curtain to Go Up on RFH Tower Players’ ‘Frozen Jr.’

Call it a cool production.

The curtain goes up Friday on the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players in their fall musical production of Frozen Jr.; and the show will run through Sunday.

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Arts & Entertainment

The R-FH Area Weekend: RFHer Cooper Ley’s Memorial Art Show

It’s all about the skating, creating and celebrating in the spirit of one artist. That artist would have been 32 on March 10.

So, in keeping with a new tradition created by his sister Adrienne, RFH grad Tom “Cooper” Ley’s artwork and birthday will be celebrated from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 15 at Wild Air Beerworks, Asbury Park.

The show will honor the RFH grad, artist, musician and skateboarder with a posthumous birthday bash and help others in the mix. The proceeds from sales of Cooper’s artwork prints will benefit a charity — I Heart SF Skate Club. The cause, his sister said, is one that she researched and feels aligns with what Cooper’s wish to help would be if he were here.

Cooper passed away suddenly last year on Jan. 10, a couple months before his 31st birthday. Adrienne hosted the first of pop-up art shows in his honor in March of last year. A second was held in December at another spot.

In addition to the sales of Cooper’s art, his brother, Ben, will entertain with a little music from 2 to 2:45 or so.

For the love of art, music, skating and a good cause, the family and friends of Cooper invite all to be there — and leave having helped with some Cooper Ley artwork to display.

Arts & Entertainment, Schools Scene

Scene Around: A Forrestdale ‘Seussical’ Thing

Just a little Rumson entertainment thing to know: Forrestdale School Drama Club kids are getting set for a curtain up on Seussical Jr., the youngsters’ version of Seussical the Musical.

Of course, the show is all about the works of famed children’s book author, Dr. Seuss. And the cast is dressed, going into final dress rehearsal and ready to open on Thursday night.

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Arts & Entertainment, Regional Interest

The Art of Exploring the Ocean’s Connection with Humanity

The art of the connection between the ocean and humanity will soon be on display. Ocean Bodies, a solo exhibit by multimedia artist Kimberly Callas, will be hosted by Monmouth University at its Ice House Gallery starting Thursday.

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Arts & Entertainment, Local Life

Scene Around: Cooper Ley’s Gift of Art Given by His Sister

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All she wants for Christmas is for people to remember her brother — to gift his gift.

Of course, in facing a first holiday without him, if it were truly up to RFH grad Adrienne Ley O’Connell, she’d rather have that brother, Tom “Cooper” Ley, back. But, since she can’t have that sparkly, neatly wrapped present of her brother’s physical presence, she’s chosen to gift herself with the ethereally messy sharing of his art.

In following her Cooper-inspired Earthly journey, Adrienne is making sure he’s remembered and offering a little help and connection to those lost, as he once was, along the way.

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Arts & Entertainment, Schools Scene

Scene Around: RFH Tower Players’ Dressed & Set for ‘Nutcracker’

It’s a dressed, set and go for the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players’ production of Nutcracker … the Musical this weekend.

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