This savvy bunch of at once traditional and totally unconventional writers and performers will inhabit the Standard ToyKraft space in Williamsburg through May 18 with their latest production.
May 4, 2013 Classic, Theater, Video
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) continues on with their year-long 150th birthday party by featuring the bizarre (and awesome) looking Cirkus Cirkör, a Swedish circus troupe arriving on our shores with the US premiere of Wear it like a crown – a tragicomic, and at times, absurd piece.
May 11, 2012 Theater
Thanks to all the French intellectuals roaming around Brooklyn these days, the Walls & Bridges series delivered to our door many talented young francophones including the cast of the musical Please Kill Me, based on the popular book, an oral history of punk. Read our review and watch video of this one time exclusive performance.
October 26, 2011 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Theater, Video
Marty Markowitz and Steven Levin teamed up to give some cash to further the cause of building North Brooklyn’s first Town Hall.
September 27, 2011 Boroughing, City Politics, Theater
Jester’s Dead re-imagines the classic 80s flick, Top Gun, in a theatrical parody packed with swordfights, songs, and text from every play in Shakespeare’s canon. In this adrenaline-fueled mashup, we’re going straight to the danger zone.
September 21, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Theater, Video
The best thing about Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant is that it is a good idea that was kept alive through dedication, aspiration and motivation. Its storyline and classic rock inspired song numbers are beautifully tongue in cheek, reek of irony, and rolled in delight.
September 19, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, Theater
Brooklyn has a lot to be grateful for, and that is especially true of our hometown investigative theater troupe The Civilians.
April 30, 2011 The People, Theater
A little birdie recently put it in our ear that a new theater would be opening in the Columbia Waterfront district. But it’s not just any old theater.
April 29, 2011 Boroughing, Theater
The House of Yes in Bushwick has become the only theater in New York City specifically dedicated to aerial arts. Next Month the aerial troupe will stage their own version of Spider Man, that according to Lady Circus member Kae Burke, “will blow the Broadway version out of the water.”
April 11, 2011 Boroughing, In Brooklyn, Theater
Through December 11, local investigative theater company The Civilians are staging In The Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards at Fort Greene’s Irondale Center, mere blocks from where this long-debated project is currently underway. We caught up with Michael Friedman, the show’s lyricist and composer, to ask him about process, community dialogue and his personal views on the project.
December 2, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Theater
If you remember the good old days of Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s (MNN) public access television extravaganza, then you might remember seeing one Diane Dwyer, DIY circus performer and local artist, whose 1994 lo-fi video production of her very own circus hit the airwaves before YouTube was even a twinkle in our eyes. These days her program, Diane’s Circus, is on it’s way to making a comeback – digitally.
November 19, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, Theater
Our November guest contributor Shelly Oria is also a playwright, and has contributed this excerpt of her original work, Emma’s Undoing. Meet Sergey, Emma and Barco, and their Russian humor.
November 10, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors, Theater
Not into dressing up, but still like Halloween? Go watch other people mimic the undead for you. Here are some local folks making Halloween theater in the borough this season, so dress up or dress down and partake in the festivities. But please, no tall hats.
October 18, 2010 In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Shared Content, Theater, Video
Meet actress and Greenpointer Kate Russell as she tenderly grills Dennis Flanagan, both of the Apothecary Theatre Company about their upcoming Off-Broadway production of Richard Taylor’s In God’s Hat. The show runs at Playwrights Horizons from July 14-August 7, 2010.
July 12, 2010 Classic, TheaterI was previously unaware of The Bushwick Starr when I attended The Target Margin Theater’s 2010 Laboratory, The Unknown Williams, a couple of weeks ago, and happily got my fix.
March 30, 2010 Boroughing, TheaterMarx, performed by Brian Jones on March 6 at New York City’s Ethical Culture Society, appears to us after having accidentally ended up in Soho, New York City, instead of Soho, London. This Marx invites the audience to look beyond – deeper into the ethos surrounding Marx’s renowned socialist political theory within a contemporary context.
March 15, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Theater
Frank Anthony Polito is a Brooklynite by way of Hazel Park, Michigan. The actor, playwright and author of BAND FAGS! and DRAMA QUEERS is staging a reading of his new show Blue Tuesday on March 2, at 7pm, presented by the Transport Group in the Penthouse of 37 West 26th Street. Originally produced under the title Another Day on Willow St for the 2007 New York Fringe Festival, Polito’s adventures into play writing hit close to home on the streets of Brooklyn Heights. We caught up with this multi-faceted talent to ask about his ongoing project, Brooklyn, and this new phase of his career.
February 26, 2010 Boroughing, TheaterDan Via is the playwright and actor starring in Daddy, a new play about gay relationships, currently running at TBG Arts Center’s Mainstage Theatre through Februrary 13. I was able to get the inside scoop from this handsome writer, who is currently based in Park Slope, as the show was kicking off.
February 3, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Queer Life, Theater
Matthew Maher is a brave man. Along with three other members of the Civilians investigative theater troupe, based here in Brooklyn, Mr. Maher interviewed his parents about their marriage and subsequent divorce for a new project entitled You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce.
The show will run at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo from November 12-14 and will be filmed and edited for online release. Mr. Maher will portray his own parents’ story, as will fellow actors Caitlin Miller, Jennifer Morris and Robbie Sublett. The show, director Anne Kauffman, aims to be a unique event in the world of theater, and promises to “reveal the stories behind the statistics.” Mr. Maher tells us about it, after the jump.
November 9, 2009 Boroughing, TheaterIssue Project Room, an art collective based in Gowanus, lost Suzanne Fiol, the organization’s founding artistic director, to cancer on Monday. Ms. Fiol, 49, dedicated herself to creating an experimental, avant-garde space for performing and visual arts in Brooklyn.
October 6, 2009 Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles, Theater“The frank depiction of anti-Semitism on the part of ostensibly sympathetic characters can make watching it an unsettling experience for modern audiences. Here the play’s religious overtones are almost entirely obliterated,” New York Times Theater critic Charles Isherwood wrote of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, which runs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Sunday.
May 15, 2009 Classic, Culture, Night/Life, The Locals, Theater“I love Brooklyn, and I love this part of Brooklyn, I don’t know if you know – it’s now called the BAM cultural district, it’s got a whole new name – but I love this district. I mean It’s just fantastic. It’s kind of like coming across the river to work in another…” said Bridge Project director Sam Mendes before pausing to find the right words. “It’s so quiet out here – it’s so calm. It’s away from all the craziness of Broadway, it’s been a really pleasurable experience.”
February 19, 2009 Night/Life, Theater
Playwright and native New Yorker Danny Hoch knows where the money is, and he’s showing everyone.
October 16, 2008 Boroughing, Culture, Real Estate, The Original BTB, Theater
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