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Performance and Film

Join us for the Bickford Theatre Spring 2026 season!

The 2026 performing arts season offers new and established partnerships that will bring renewed excitement to patrons, including a new collaboration between the Morris Museum and WBGO Presents: All That Jazz.

A mix of perennial favorites return this year—Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Mike Davis, and Nimbus Dance—joined by a dynamic mix of new offerings that will delight on stage and on screen. In addition, a new program of art-related films runs monthly on Wednesdays starting in September.

Upcoming Performances & Film

Friday, February 27, 2026 | 8:00 PM
Nimbus Dance
Nimbus presents ANIMA, the culmination of a ten-year collaboration between Nimbus’ award-winning Artistic Director, Samuel Pott, and acclaimed, multi-faceted composer Qasim Naqvi. This powerful evening of dance that confronts our most urgent and tim... Read More
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Sunday, March 8, 2026 | 3:00 PM
Mike Davis and The New Wonders present a Bix Beiderbecke Birthday Celebration
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
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Film: Turner & Constable
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
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Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 5:00 & 8:00 PM
Morris Museum and WBGO Presents All That Jazz with Kirk Whalum
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
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Thursday, March 26, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Galvin Cello Quartet
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
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Friday, March 27, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Orpheus & Jeremy Denk
Pianist Jeremy Denk revels in the same ethos of curiosity and collaboration that powers Orpheus, and you can always count on him to find new flashes of inspiration within a cherished masterpiece like Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, drawing on the “f... Read More
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Thursday, April 9, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Cerus Quartet
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
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 2:00 PM
Film: Basquiat
Julian Schnabel’s tribute to his friend and fellow painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is less a conventional biopic than an impressionistic, sensory immersion into the much-mythologized downtown-Manhattan art world of the 1980s. Jeffrey Wright, in his first l... Read More
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Saturday, April 25, 2026 | 1:00 PM
Learn from a Composer: A Workshop with Garrett Fisher
Inspired by the Notes on Napkins exhibition, composer Garrett Fisher will demonstrate at the piano how he begins a musical idea. Participants will be invited to create their own “notes on napkins” — simple drawings, marks, words, or musical fragment... Read More
Sunday, May 3, 2026 | 4:00 PM
Rio plays Rio on the 88s at 88
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
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Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 7:00 PM
An Evening with Martin Guitar
Experience a special evening with Chris Martin IV, the 6th-generation owner of the iconic guitar manufacturer, C.F. Martin & Co. as he shares his passion and stories from his over 35 years at the helm of the company. Chris is joined by music instructo... Read More
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Film: Water Lilies by Monet: The Magic of Water and Light
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
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Film: Frida: Viva la Vida
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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