Performance and Film

Performance and Film

Join us for the Bickford Theatre Fall/Winter 2025-26 season!

The season includes a new collaboration between the Morris Museum and WBGO Presents: All That Jazz, featuring acclaimed jazz musicians such as pianist and composer Alex Bugnon. Returning favorite Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey is developing another edition of the “Music Box Series” that uses objects from the Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata as a source of inspiration for their program and will include works by Verdi and Beethoven.

Carolyn Dorfman Dance will be in residence for a week in December to present the 25th anniversary of her seminal work Mayne Mentshn (My People), and the highly popular Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker and the Grinch Suites performed by the Water Gap Jazz Orchestra returns for its third year.

The new year begins with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra featuring violinist Stella Chen, followed by a 100th birthday tribute concert to the late Bucky Pizzarelli featuring Martin Pizzarelli. In addition, a new program of art-related films runs monthly on Wednesdays starting in September.

Upcoming Performances & Film

Sunday, November 9, 2025 | 3:00 PM
Cellist Ani Kalayjian and pianist David Kaplan, Co-Artistic Directors of Chatham-based Lyrica Chamber Music, curate a program featuring the triumphant A major Dvorak piano quintet, Florence Price, Amy Beach, “Armenian/Danish Folk Mixtape” feat... Read More
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 2 PM & 7:00 PM
Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography… Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time – Caravaggio. Featuring master... Read More
Two Dates: Friday, November 14 and Sunday, November 16!
The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey returns to the Bickford Theatre for the next installment of the Music Box Series. Inspired by the Morris Museum’s Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments & Automata, BONJ’s Maestro Robert Butts has... Read More
Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Join the Morris Museum and WBGO Presents All That Jazz for a performance by renowned jazz-soul musician, composer and bandleader, Alex Bugnon. Alex Bugnon has been a prolific, energetic force on the contemporary music scene for almost three decades. Bug... Read More
Sunday, December 7, 2025 | 3:00 PM
Experience a sneak preview of the newest addition to the Legacy Project. This work-in-process, The Hero Within: Max Heller, Mary Mills and Miracles, explores themes of joy, pain, and resilience. Dorfman’s creations delve into history, connecting the pas... Read More
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Lotto and Berenson: Crossed Destinies follows the intertwined journeys of Lorenzo Lotto, a forgotten Renaissance master, and Bernard Berenson, the American Jewish art critic who resurrected his legacy. Through the eyes of actor Alessandro Sperduti, the fi... Read More
Saturday, December 20, 2025 | 3:00 & 7:00 PM
The Water Gap Jazz Orchestra returns to the Morris Museum to perform Duke Ellington’s iconic Nutcracker Suite and their very own Grinch Suite! This 17-piece big band is comprised of the highest caliber professional musicians in the tri-state area and is... Read More
Sunday, January 11, 2026 | 3:00 PM
A swingin’ 100th celebration of the late great New Jersey’s own guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, whose career spanned seven decades as he strummed along with the likes of Benny Goodman to Miles Davis. The concert is led by his son Martin who, along with hi... Read More
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Renowned for their collaborative spirit, the GRAMMY-Award winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has played without a conductor since their inception, performing with “edge-of-the-seat intensity” and displaying an “infectious love for making music... Read More
Saturday, February 7, 2026 | 7:30 PM
New Orleans native Thaddeus Exposé is back with a concert that promises to have you dancing! Featuring Evan Christopher on clarinet, Marty Eigen on saxophone, Wallace Roney Jr. on trumpet, Peter Lin on Trombone, Bernard Elliott on piano, Gordon Lane on d... Read More
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Painting the Soul of the 20th Century: Pellizza Da Volpedo tells the story of the tormented life of divisionist painter Giuseppe Pellizza (1868-1907), famous for his work ‘The Fourth Estate’, as well as for his ability to study the soul and hu... Read More
Thursday, February 19, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Described as “Australian guitarist brothers making history” (The Age), Ziggy & Miles are among Australia’s finest young musicians forging an international career. Winners of the 2023 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, they are the ... Read More
Friday, February 27, 2026 | 8:00 PM
The Morris Museum welcomes Nimbus Dance back to the Bickford Theatre. Nimbus Dance is known for its physically astounding and visually captivating aesthetic. Founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Samuel Pott (former soloist of Martha Graham Dance Company),... Read More
Sunday, March 8, 2026 | 3:00 PM
Mike Davis and the New Wonders return to the Bickford Theatre to celebrate the birthday of a true original, a leading light of daring Jazz Age creativity: cornetist, pianist and composer Bix Beiderbecke. In the 28 years of his life, Bix played with the Wo... Read More
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John ... Read More
Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 5:00 & 8:00 PM
Soulful, passionate, stirring…these are the words most often used to describe Kirk Whalum’s music. Forged from his Memphis, (TN) gospel roots and his 1980s initiation into the thriving Houston, TX nightclub scene, Kirk’s big, rich tenor soun... Read More
Thursday, March 26, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Praised as a quartet whose “cellists are brilliant instrumentalists and thoughtful musicians individually, but their renditions as a group are glorious,” (Arnold Steinhardt, Guarneri String Quartet) the Galvin Cello Quartet burst onto the scene afte... Read More
Thursday, April 9, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Founded in 2022, the Cerus Quartet is dedicated to showcasing the dynamic and versatile sound of the saxophone quartet. With a repertoire spanning contemporary compositions and transcriptions of classical masterworks, the quartet seeks to establish the sa... Read More
Sunday, May 3, 2026 | 4:00 PM
Morristown’s own Rio Clemente celebrates his 88th birthday with the Morris Museum while performing his own compositions from throughout his illustrious career. Joined by band members Flip Peters (guitar), Gene Perla (bass), Gordon Lane (drums), Bill Ash... Read More
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Voyage through the masterpieces and obsessions of the genius and founder of Impressionism, Claude Monet. An art-world disruptor at the turn of the 20th century whose obsession with capturing light and water broke all convention, Monet revolutionized Moder... Read More
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Frida: Viva La Vida is a cinematic documentary event film that highlights the two sides of Frida Kahlo’s spirit: a revolutionary, pioneering artist of contemporary feminism, and on the other, a human being tormented by agony and love. With Asia Argento ... Read More
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