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Jane Levere: Seen and Heard in New York: Liv Ullmann, Joan Osborne, Charlotte Rampling, Alec Baldwin and Robert Frank
Although Liv Ullmann's highly acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire with Cate Blanchett ended its run yesterday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it might live on in film, if not on the Broadway stage.
According to a report in the New York
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Dance: The Metropolitan Opera’s New Moves
OPERA, not dance, first taught me how felicitous the conjunction of movement and music can be onstage. From a 1973 “Tosca” I could tell you on which phrase the singer Tito Gobbi timed which brilliant piece of acting (most chillingly, a sensuous, slow
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Theater Review | New Jersey: A Boy and His Dog, From the Funny Pages
You could say that parts of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown: The Musical” are thigh-slappingly funny. That’s the way a little girl in Row F expressed her appreciation last Sunday at the Two River Theater Company. But those moments, alas, were few and
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Beyond Broadway: Affordable Ways to See Theater and Culture In & Around NYC
Many theaters -- in the other boroughs, New York State, Connecticut, and New Jersey -- are easily accessible by public transportation and the tickets are reasonably priced. Often, you can get seats at these venues for the same shows -- or performers --
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Rebecca Mead: Liv Ullman, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and the Women’s Refugee Commission.
Liv Ullmann—actor, director, muse—has been in town for her production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the other day she dropped by the Chanin Building, on East Forty-second Street, to perform a role for which she is
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News : FILTER’s Top 10 of 2009: Ra Ra Riot
It's December, which could only mean one thing: top 10 lists. FILTER has taken this end-of-the-year sacrament to the extreme with its Top 10 of 2009 series. Each day this month, FILTER is presenting lists of the best albums of the year from not only
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Hot Ticket: Nicole, Denzel and, Oh, a Play
O COME, let us adore them.
Let it be written that in the first decade of the second millennium a host of gods and goddesses descended on the mortal land of Broadway. Julia, Jude, Hugh, Denzel, Daniel the Elder, Daniel the Younger, Catherine, Katie
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Playbill.com Looks Back at Theatre 2009: A Year in Images
Playbill.com offers a look back at the photographs of memorable theatrical events of 2009.
Cate Blanchett tore into Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire as the Sydney Theatre Company revival came stateside to The Kennedy Center and Brooklyn
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A complicated life
Instead of winding down her career, she has done seven movies in the past two years - Rendition, Lions for Lambs, Mamma Mia!, Doubt, Julie & Julia, Fantastic Mr Fox and her latest, It's Complicated.
``Yes, I'm going to take a very big break,
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A look back at Atlantic Yards in 2009: tumultuous change, success for arena backers, and lingering questions of accountability
A year ago, in a look ahead to AY in 2009, I wrote that the fate of the arena, at least, should be more clear.
Now the master closing has been completed, a close-to-final victory for Forest City Ratner and its government partners. But the arena's not a
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NYC Premiere of Equivocation Will Feature Pankow, Parry, Pittu and More
Garry Hynes was the first woman to win the Tony Award for Best Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane. She is artistic director of Druid Theatre, Galway, for which she has directed many productions, including Long Day's Journey Into Night, My
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A Three-House Art Showcase
By Nancy Keates West Palm Beach, Fla. It's almost as if a Tim Burton film has come to life: There's a stone path lined with giant chess pieces and hedges shaped like poodles. A white porta-potty, styled to resemble an iPod, sits on the porch of an
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It's 'Mission' accomplished with pro-Soviet propaganda at BAM
Everyone loves a little Soviet propaganda from time to time. And nobody did it better than writer Howard Koch and director Michael Curtiz — the same creative team behind the 1942 classic “Casablanca.” Believe it or not, but just one year later, the
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Liv Ullmann taking on role of a teacher
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What: ``An Affair of the Arts'' performance and gala
Where: Performance at Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, 174 E. Flagler St., Miami; gala follows at Alfred I. DuPont Building, 169 E. Flagler St., Miami
Cost: $650 to $1,000
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Yoko Ono Recruits Clapton, Paul Simon for Plastic Ono Band Show
Yoko Ono has recruited Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Bette Midler and more artists for the first Plastic Ono Band show in 40 years: a special concert on February 16th at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.
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Plastic Ono Band Confirm First Gig in 40 Years
It's been a long time coming but it's been confirmed that Yoko Ono will play the first Plastic Ono Band gig in 40 years when the band takes the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on Feb. 16. She will be joined by original band members
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Our weekly events calendar!
Fri, Jan. 15 Art, “Who Shot Rock & Roll”: Great rock photographs from 1955 to the present. 10 am–5 pm. Brooklyn Museum [200 Eastern Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 638-5000], www.brooklynmuseum.org. Theater, “Take Me Out”: Richard
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Plastic Ono Band Announces First Gig in 40 Years With Clapton, Thurston & Kim, Cornelious, Bette Midler...
Famed avant-garde artist Yoko Ono will resurrect Plastic Ono Band with an all-star lineup for a one-night only performance in Brooklyn, NY.
The concert, booked for February 16 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Gilman Opera House, will be the first for
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Critical mass
Festivals are so much more than a cluster of events, writes Alison Croggan
ADELAIDE, 1982. A bare stage. A group of men and women in evening dress stalks rhythmically downstage, and returns upstage to glare at the audience. Then, one by one, each of
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Sandglass founders win Governor’s Arts Award
PUTNEY -- For one night, at least, the Vermont Statehouse will be ruled by a puppet regime.
Gov. James Douglas and the Vermont Arts Council have awarded Eric Bass and Ines Zeller Bass, founders of Putney-based Sandglass Theater, the 2010 Governor’s
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Sundance's new boss flips the script
Cooper was working as an actor, dancer and singer. He had performed in and directed some plays in New York City and was a member of a close-harmony trio -- Cooper, Fike & Woods -- that played Manhattan's cabaret circuit.
John Cooper is the new head
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Events Celebrate Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr.
Events around the city and the nation Monday marked the birthday of the late civil rights leader.
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King Remembered In Brooklyn Birthday
Swayed by the inspiring sounds of the New Life Tabernacle Choir, Brooklynites lifted their voices in song to celebrate the progress that has happened since Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death as well as catalyze the social change that needs to come. Scores
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BiddingForGood Reports Top Performers in 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- BiddingForGood (formerly cMarket), the leading cause-related e-commerce platform connecting consumers and marketers to nonprofit auction events is reporting their top performing categories, items, and cause
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Souza's Grammy-nominated 'Tide' reflects extreme loss and gain
"I was just not in the mood to go and write songs and he was fundamental really to getting me to the piano and the guitar and to say, 'Keep going,' because music will be in my life no matter what," said Souza of the difficult time, from 2008 to 2009.
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Rotterdam targets web
Rotterdam is pushing the envelope of how film festivals interact with the public, running an experiment that aims to put three features into production this year with coin collected from its audience. Each pic will need to collect $43,000 by July
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Our exclusive family calendar!
Fri, Jan. 29 11:30 am: Storytime with Emily. Weekly event. Moxie Spot [81 Atlantic Ave. between Hicks and Henry streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 923-9710], themoxiespot.com. 5 pm: Teen writing workshop. With Ned Vizzini. Barnes & Noble Park Slope [267
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A radiant Rosalind warms a chilly 'As You Like It'
In this theater publicity image released by the BAM Press Office, Christian Camargo, left, Michelle Beck and Juliet Rylance are shown in a scene from The Bridge Project's production of "As You Like It," running in repertory with "The Tempest" at the
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Theater Review | 'As You Like It': Cold Snap Hits the Forest of Arden: Lovebirds Are Shivering
The deep freeze enveloping New York and much of the rest of the country over the past month apparently extended all the way to Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden. Biting cold at times threatens to smother the biting wit in Sam Mendes’s tough-minded, wintry
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Theater Review: bobrauschenbergamerica
TheSpyAnts in bobrauschenbergamerica at [Inside] the Ford | Photo: Debi Landrie
"Why does a man in a chicken suit cross the stage?" is not the only existential inquiry tackled by Charles Mee’s challenging but rewarding theater piece . There’s also: "
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Weekend Guide: Music
POP, ROCK, FOLK DOOM: This rapper, who performs wearing a metal mask, is joined by Mos Def. Tomorrow at 9 p.m., Nokia Theater, 1515 Broadway; 212-930-1950. LES SAVY FAV: These Brooklyn rockers may not be well-known outside of their borough, but they're
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National Theatre's Nation Is Broadcast Live from London Jan. 30
Part of the NT Live initiative, the live performance of Nation is screened locally at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and Time and Space Hudson at 2 PM.
The National Theatre's world-premiere production
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Les Savy Fav played BAM, Saxon Shore playing the Knit, 'Sounds Like Brooklyn' underway - full schedule & more
American post-rockers Saxon Shore hit back. It Doesn't Matter, the quintet's follow-up to 2005's The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore is a welcome return to form for the band and their original leader Matthew Doty.
Saxon Shore released their gorgeous
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Blogs: Antipop Consortium at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Antipop Consortium fans dotted the crowd during the group’s set, opening for Rain Machine in BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House.
Indeed, Antipop Consortium is true to its name, in that it definitely isn't for everyone. Judging by Saturday night's
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Time Out Theater Review: "As You Like It"
A melancholy version of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" is currently playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, compliments of the British-American theater company "The Bridge Project." Time Out New York contributing theater critic David Cote filed the
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Review and Comment: Hotel Town
The Eagle's Krogius gets all gee-whiz over the 40 hotel projects claimed to be in the works in Brooklyn (motto: "if the condo market is toast, build hotels"), reminisces about his childhood pre-Jackie Robinson, and fluffs Marty Markowitz.
A rush
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Nobody's Fool: Thomas Sadowski in 'As You Like It'
You’re a classically trained young stage actor. You’ve worked consistently with modern playwrights like Neil LaBute, Kenneth Lonergan and Craig Lucas. But the Shakespearean and Chekhovian fare you cut your teeth on in school has escaped you. So Sam
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Blogs: Live Tonight & This Weekend: Soft Pack, Tanlines, forgettes, Golden Triangle
Tonight, The Soft Pack celebrates its album release at Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St. (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.), 212-253-0036; midnight, Free.
Gunfight!, Les Sans Culottes, The Art of Shooting and The Nightmare
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Curtain rises on Brooklyn arts center
After years of canceled projects and false starts, the cultural district planned for the neighborhood around the Brooklyn Academy of Music is finally gaining momentum.
Over the next year, construction on six cultural and public projects worth a total
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Fort Greene cultural projects press on
More than $100 million worth of cultural and public projects are slated to break ground in the area surrounding the Brooklyn Academy of Music, marking the dawn of Fort Greene's new cultural district after years of delays. Among the six projects planned
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Anne Hathaway’s Piping Hot Valentine’s Day Plans
Anne Hathaway has some hot plans for Valentine’s Day this coming Sunday.
And on Monday night’s red carpet for the premiere for her movie of the same name, Anne, in a gorgeous blue Marchesa feathered mini-dress, told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson
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Envisioning Shakespeare at Home in New York
The news that the Royal Shakespeare Company will install a classical theater inside the Park Avenue Armory for a six-week residency in the summer of 2011 inspires both gratitude and chagrin.
A theater will be built inside the Park Avenue Armory for a
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Ra Ra Riot Embrace Synths, The Seventies on Summer Album
It’s 5:30 p.m. on a frigid Thursday in Manhattan, and the members of Ra Ra Riot are standing in a cleared-out practice space on West 55th Street. Wes Miles, the band’s singer and keyboardist, in a light green sweatshirt, is holding a large white sheet
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Charting her own course: Orleans artist sails into NYC with nautical card designs
"I've been trying to promote this business for several years, and I could never have dreamed of an opportunity like this."
Menz put together a box of six sheets of note cards in a box, each with a different nautical chart, and each box tied
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Ono still pushing buttons, and boundaries
Yoko Ono’s ever-changing and often conceptual Plastic Ono Band has never failed at packing the studio and stage with star-filled lineups. But the cast she’s assembled to play the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Gilman Opera House on Tuesday is just
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Dance Company Honors Choreographer's Final Wishes
A well-known modern dance company is beginning the countdown to it's final performance in New York City. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following report.
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London Revival of La Bête Confirmed for June; Broadway in September
Lumley, who is best known for starring in the British TV series "Absolutely Fabulous," was last seen onstage in a regional U.K. production of The Cherry Orchard at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. Other stage appearances include Somerset Maugham's The
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Last Night’s Concert: Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band at BAM
Yoko Ono is turning 77 tomorrow. Keep that in mind as you imagine the performance artist shimmying, writhing, caterwauling, and charming the pants off the audience at Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night. The show began with a montage of Ono
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Choreographer laughs at self in ‘Also Playing’
View full sizeRobert Kleinendorst kicks up his heels in "Also Playing."At his last performance, before he fainted on stage, choreographer Paul Taylor heard the audience laughing. Only his close associates knew that his zigzagging wasn’t part of the
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Yoko Ono Shimmies, Shakes and Shines with Clapton, Midler, Simon, and Sons
"I have to tell you," Yoko Ono said to her audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night, a few days before her 77th birthday, "you have a long life ahead of you, and it’s going to be beautiful."
Her Brooklyn Academy of Music show -- half
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Feb. 21 — 27
But will he be in wild-man mode? Iggy Pop is scheduled to make his first appearance at the annual Tibet House Benefit House Concert on Friday.
The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more.
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Spring and Summer Theater Listings
A select list of forthcoming shows. Dates are subject to change.
CLYBOURNE PARK The season has already been notable for a variety of productions on the subject of black-white relations -- David Mamet's play "Race" and the musical "Memphis" are still on
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In Step: Marching in like a jackrabbit
delivered to a world that fits. From this, he crafts an evening about our closest relationships in a moment in history when seemingly fixed structures, like the traditional nuclear family, are morphing into new forms that can accommodate the complexity
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Alex Smith, THPAC Executive Chair, Discusses African Dance Influence on Brooklyn Dance Community
2010-02-23 18:10:43 - Panel of Dance Experts Convene
In Heart of BAM Cultural District
Brooklyn dancers and choreographers and give brief demonstrations of African dance techniques as they are remade in Brooklyn. The event takes place in the
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Dance Review | Mark Morris Dance Group: Cheekily Defying Expectations
The choreographer Mark Morris works hard, well and successfully to elude categorization throughout his triple bill at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. By stretching his range, he also stretches our ideas of what dance theater can be and do.
The latest
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A generosity of spirit envelops 'The Tempest'
MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic | - AP In this theater publicity image released by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Juliet Rylance, left, and Edward Bennett are shown in a scene from the Sam Mendes' production of "The Tempest." The Bridge Project
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BAMCinematek to 'Focus on IFC'
Coming up next month, BAMCinematek will present a new series called "Focus on IFC Films," including three new acquisitions for the distrib. Slate will run March 19-21 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemas.
Among the newly-acquired pics is
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At the Whitney, Busting Out Quietly
"IT'S a lot cheaper to get a new wig than a new wife," the art collector Mera Rubell said at the gala on Tuesday for the opening of the Whitney Biennial. Peering out from beneath a spiky platinum Warhol wig, the dark-haired Ms. Rubell gazed up at her
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Hollywood: Bring Back the Tragic Divas
Your deadbeat mom calls from somewhere on the road. She's a country music legend who's seen better days, and lately she's been wandering offstage drunk to throw up in the alley. She drives between gigs with her fly down, peeing in jugs like a trucker.
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Shakespeare Is Star of Backstage Drama, Equivocation, Opening in NYC March 2
Hynes' production underlines the timeless ideas of the play (government pressure, fathers and children, professional loyalty) by mixing modern dress with classical costume pieces, and the action takes place on a dark, almost industrial set that
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Ballet Theater to Skip Fall Season
American Ballet Theater says it will skip its regular two weeks of performances next fall and use the time to rehearse its new “Nutcracker” production, which will be staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After 10 years of fall performances at City
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Batali and Morris Talk Food and Dance at BAM
Roisin Wisneski Choreographer Mark Morris and chef Mario Batali chatted at BAM last week.
The Mark Morris Dance Group’s three-part show wrapped up a nearly sold-out four-performance run at Brooklyn Academy of Music on Feb. 27.
Last Thursday, BAM held
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Starless Ensemble Plays Shine, With Limits
For the third time this season, the Off Broadway theater Playwrights Horizons has received rave reviews for a production, “Clybourne Park,” and has added performances to meet audience demand. What Playwrights doesn’t have are tiny casts led by movie
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Brooklyn Preservation Council News
In a January 20 letter, Landmarks Preservation Commission research director Mary Beth Betts acknowledged to Bob Furman of the Brooklyn Preservation Council Foundation that the agency is considering a number of proposed new historic buildings and
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LAST CHANCE: What's Closing This Week
Concluding March 13
The Tempest and As You Like It (at the Brooklyn Academy of Music). Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes directs the second season of plays from the Bridge Project, which feature a transatlantic company of actors including Stephen
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Showed Up: Sam Mendes Does 'The Tempest' and 'As You Like It' at BAM
The second of three seasons of The Bridge Project, a partnership of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Old Vic and Neal Street, is closing at BAM this week. Last year, Sam Mendes staged The Winter’s Tale and The Cherry Orchard here; this year it’s The
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Kevin Spacey: Star of screen, stage and Las Vegas?
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Spacey is an Oscar-winning actor and artistic director of The Old Vic in LondonHe will lead The Bridge Project theatrical co-production in 2012Spacey would love to revive the headline nightclub act in Las Vegas
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Seen and Heard in New York: Sam Mendes, Juliet Rylance, James Taylor, Liev Schreiber
Director Sam Mendes and actress Juliet Rylance on the Bridge Project productions of The Tempest and As You Like It, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through March 13 http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1179, and their craft. The productions--which feature
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Flatbush to LPC: Us, too!
The neighborhoods of Victorian Flatbush have long been known as quiet enclaves whose detached homes, dating to the early years of the last century, are gracious survivors. As such, they are cherished by their owners, who have fought to preserve them in
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Best of the boros: Entertainment in Brooklyn
People enjoy the preview to the cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
With bars, museums, parks and tours, bored is a word rarely heard in Brooklyn. If you want to catch a movie, go birdwatching or listen to comedians, this borough
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Just Call Him Angel of the Morning
For a decade and a half, as the showbiz has-been character Kiki in the infamous punk drag cabaret act Kiki & Herb, Justin Bond terrified audiences with fucked-up covers of Radiohead, Eminem, Talking Heads, Belle & Sebastian, Nirvana—you name it. The
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Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants at BAM Opera Festival
Many opera productions, especially those of small-scale chamber works, have tried to break down barriers between performers and audiences. At the production of Charpentier’s French Baroque pastorale “Actéon,” which opened at the Brooklyn Academy of
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Marina Diamandis, Elevating a Steady Beat
“How many of you heard of me two seconds ago, like today?” inquired Marina Diamandis, a Welsh-Greek songwriter who bills herself as Marina and the Diamonds, in her set at Lambert’s. Well, that’s the point of
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But her set drew some eager