The House Tour. The House Tour. The House Tour! More info at the Brooklyn Heights Association website.
There are several activities at Brooklyn Bridge Park this weekend. The Green Team meets tomorrow (Saturday, May 12) from 10:00 a.m. until noon. At the same time, there will be a MillionTreesNYC community tree giveaway on Pier 6, near the foot of Atlantic Avenue. Continue Reading →
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will present a screening of Nancy Buirski’s film, The Loving Story, a love story about a couple whose wedding set the stage for the Supreme Court’s decision, in Loving v. Virginia, that struck down statutes prohibiting interracial marriage.
The show begins at 3 p.m. Saturday, and there will be a discussion with Buirski afterward. The event is free with museum admission, which is free for BHS members; for non-members it is $6 for adults, and $4 for seniors over 62, teachers, and students 12 and over (college students must have ID; children under 12 are free). Continue Reading →
Theater 2020′s innovative production of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors (cast shown in photo) opens tomorrow (Friday, May 4) at 8:00 p.m. at the Cranberry Street Theater Space, Assumption Church, 55 Cranberry Street. More details are here.
Burgeoning eclectic classical composer & performer Gabriel Kahane is featured in a lengthy profile in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine, titled “Gabriel Kahane Is a One-Man Cultural Cuisinart.” The 30-year-old resident of Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, composed music & lyrics for “February House” (see previous BHB post here), based on the true story of the Brooklyn Heights mansion at 7 Middagh Street, where W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee, among others, lived in the 1940s. The musical opens May 22 at New York’s Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street. Continue Reading →
Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional theater company, will present an innovative production of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, featuring “five men, five women… and five puppets in a riotous romp of mistaken identity,” at the Cranberry Street Theater Space, Assumption Church, 55 Cranberry Street. Continue Reading →
February House, the new musical play by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley that imagines life at 7 Middagh Street in the early 1940s, when the house was inhabited by a stellar and remarkably disparate collection of poets, composers, and novelists (including a striptease artist who became a novelist while living there) of various aesthetic and sexual inclinations, is now playing at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven. It will be coming to the Public Theater in Manhattan May 8 through June 10. As our previous post noted, it got mixed reviews in the Connecticut press, with the Hartford Courant’s reviewer comparing it to Sondheim and Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George while the Examiner’s reviewer thought it “interesting but disappointing.” Now, Sylviane Gold of the Times has given it an unequivocal thumbs-up. Continue Reading →
Composer Gabriel Kahane and playwright Seth Bockley have collaborated on a musical play, February House, evidently inspired by Sherill Tippins’ book by the same title, about the house at 7 Middagh Street (demolished to make way for the BQE) that, in the early 1940s, sheltered a brilliant and bizarre collection of poets, novelists, composers, and other artistic sorts, including W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Erika Mann (daughter of Nobel Prize winning German novelist Thomas Mann, she was Auden’s wife-of-convenience: he was gay and romantically involved with the young American poet Chester Kallman; she was a lesbian), Carson McCullers (recently estranged from her husband; she and Erika Mann may have become lovers), and Gypsy Rose Lee, who wrote her novel The G-String Murders while living at 7 Middagh (played by Kacie Sheik; photo by T. Charles Erickson). Continue Reading →
This afternoon your correspondent braved blustery winds, and even a brief snow flurry as he walked past St. Ann’s, to attend the reading of Lady Susan or the Captive Heart, a Jane Austen Bodice Ripper, a work-in-progress by Lynn Marie Macy which Theater 2020 plans to present in its final version this fall. The comedy is based on an early Jane Austen novel, and set in the 1790s. As interpreted my Ms. Macy, the story, while true to its time, becomes an almost Neil Simon-like broad romantic farce, with unexpected encounters leading to characters hiding behind curtains, a sofa, a tea cart (from which the hidden lover keeps filching cakes while his rival flirts with his beloved), and a dressmaker’s changing screen behind which a spurned wife and her equally spurned sister-in-law plot the vengeance that leads to the final, climactic scene. Continue Reading →
This (Friday) evening, from 6:00 to 8:00, Drink Local, a tasting of Brooklyn-made spirits and wines at Waterfront Wines & Spirits, on the Joralemon street side of One Brooklyn Bridge Park (go down Joralemon, cross under the BQE, cross Furman Street, and it’s on your left). Admission and tasting is free; proceeds of any bottles you buy go to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. More details here.
Tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon, from 1:30 to 3:00, Theater 2020 presents a reading (not a full-dress performance) of a comedy-in-progress, Lady Susan or the Captive Heart, a Jane Austen Bodice Ripper, at the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, Cadman Plaza West and Tillary Street. More details here.
As stagehands at the Brooklyn Academy of Music began preparing the opera hall for a banquet honoring Sen. Patrick Henry McCarren the morning of November 30, 1903, no one could have been prepared for the horrifying event about to take place at 176-194 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights.
The week before, during Thanksgiving, BAM had staged William A. Brady’s “Way Down East,” and as the crew removed sets from “the beautiful pastoral play,” a small explosion occurred just offstage Continue Reading →
Our Brooklyn Heights neighbors at Theater 2020 (read more about them here) will present a free dramatic reading (not a staged play: actors will be seated and reading from scripts throughout) of a new play by Lynn Marie Macy, Lady Susan or the Captive Heart, a Jane Austen Bodice Ripper, at the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, Cadman Plaza West and Tillary Street, on Saturday, February 25, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. After the reading, there will be a discussion session with the playwright. As this is a work in progress, which Theater 2020 plans to mount as a full stage production later this year, you may contribute to its development.
Molly Smith Metzler, a playwright who lives in the Heights with fellow theater scribe Colin McKenna, is featured in a Sunday Los Angeles Times profile January 22. Her play “Elemeno Pea,” opens Feb. 3 at South Coast Repertory. The Tony-winning professional company in Costa Mesa, Calif., is regarded as one of America’s foremost producers of new works. Continue Reading →
Theater 2020 will present the second of its two holiday season events, A Radio Christmas Carol, this Saturday afternoon at 3;00 p.m., at St. Charles Borromeo Church on Sidney Place. It is described as “Charles Dickens’ Christmas Classic Performed as a Radio Play complete with Foley Artist Sound Effects” and should be fun for adults and kids alike. You may make reservations and buy tickets at the Theater 2020 website, or pay at the door. Admission is a suggested donation of $20, but you may pay what you feel you can afford.
The Times’ “ArtsBeat” blog reports that St. Ann’s Warehouse Theater, which is slated to leave its present location to make way for the Dock Street Project, and which lost its bid to build new space in the Tobacco Warehouse, has signed a lease that will allow it to relocate to 29 Jay Street, also in DUMBO. The story quotes Susan Feldman, St. Ann’s artistic director, as saying the theater will continue to look for “a more permanent home.”
Theater 2020, whose producing artistic directors are Heights residents (and BHB fans) Judith Jarosz and David Fuller, and which presented a critically acclaimed (even by notoriously tough BHB commenters) Romeo and Juliet at St. Charles Borromeo Church, with an outdoor finale at Brooklyn Bridge Park, last July, is staging not one, but two special shows this holiday season. Both will also be happening at St. Charles Borromeo, 21 Sidney Place. The first, Tidings of Good Cheer, “a holiday concert of traditional and not so traditional songs of the season” with the vocal group RPM, will be Sunday, December 11, starting at 3:00 p.m. The second, A Radio Christmas Carol, “Charles Dickens’ Christmas Classic Performed as a Radio Play complete with Foley Artist Sound Effects”, will be on Saturday, December 17, also starting at 3:00 p.m. For more information or to make reservations, please visit the Theater 2020 website
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