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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 17, 2014 2:22 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

On my customary morning stroll around Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, I found actors rehearsing Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew for Random Access Theatre’s free performances of that classic comedy at the Granite Prospect on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings (July 18, 19, and 20) starting at 7:00. More information here. Also at Brooklyn Bridge [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 12, 2014 10:35 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Parents, Photography, Theater

We get our own Shakespeare in the Park this coming weekend (Friday, June 13 through Sunday, June 15) as Theater 2020 continues their critically praised production of King Lear with three free performances at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings starting at 7:00. It’s slated to be perfect walking weather on [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 5, 2014 10:39 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Kids, movies, Music, Parents, Photos, Poetry, Shopping, Theater

PS 8′s annual Paddlewheeler Block Party is this Saturday, June 7, from noon to 4:00 p.m. on Poplar Street between Henry and Hicks streets. It’s your, and your kids’, chance to meet Elsa the Snow Queen and Anna from Frozen. There will be a bouncy castle, a magic show, face and hair painting, an obstacle [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 30, 2014 12:07 am in Arts and Entertainment, Astronomy, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Dance, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Theater, Visual Arts

Besides the not-to-be-missed Hidden Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour, there are several events of note in the neighborhood this weekend. Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral (photo), Henry and Remsen Streets, will have its annual Lebanese Festival on Saturday, May 31 from noon to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 1 from noon to 6:00 p.m. The festival [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 22, 2014 6:12 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Comedy, Events, Food, Fun, Health, History, movies, Music, Seniors, Theater

In town for the holiday weekend? It’s your last chance to see the Heights Players’ final production of their 2013-14 season, West Side Story. Performances are on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00, and Sunday afternoon at 2:00. There’s more information here. This weekend also offers your first chance to see Theater 2020′s production of [...]

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Theater 2020 Presents King Lear

By on May 18, 2014 10:41 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Theater

Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional stage company, will present Shakespeare’s King Lear starting next weekend (video after the jump). There will be performances on Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24 starting at 8:00 p.m. and on Sunday, May 25 starting at 3:00 p.m. The play will run through the following two weekends (May [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on April 9, 2014 11:21 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Events, Food, Gardening, movies, Music, Theater

It’s spring, really spring, so you may feel like getting outside and doing a little gardening. The Poplar Street Community Garden is having their first Workday of the season this Saturday, April 12, from noon to 3:00 p.m. The Garden is located at Poplar and Hicks streets. Bring your own pruning shears, or use theirs. [...]

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Theater 2020 Presents Free Reading of Shaw’s “Overruled” Saturday

By on April 6, 2014 7:20 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Theater

Theater 2020, the Heights’ own professional theater company, will present a free reading of George Bernard Shaw’s one act play Overruled this coming Saturday afternoon, April 12, in the first floor auditorium of the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West. The reading will begin at 2:00; doors open at [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on April 4, 2014 1:48 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn History, DUMBO, Events, Food, movies, Music, Religion, Theater

Smorgasburg is back this Sunday, April 6, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Pier 5 uplands, Brooklyn Bridge Park. It will continue each Sunday through November 2. This (Friday, March 4) evening, starting at 7:00, Bargemusic has an interesting “Bargemix” concert featuring works by Hindemith, Yoed Nir, Jimi Hendrix, and Rachmaninov, performed by [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on March 27, 2014 12:42 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn History, Events, movies, Music, Sports, Theater

The Heights Players will open their three weekend production of Yentl, by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, a play about “the divine androgeny of the soul,” this weekend, with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 2:00. Make reservations here. Looking ahead, the Players will resume their Theater for [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on March 14, 2014 1:19 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Events, Food, Fun, Health, movies, Music, Shopping, Theater

This (Friday, March 14) evening, starting at 7:00, Bargemusic will present a “Here and Now” concert of piano works by composer David Del Tredici {photo}, whom Aareon Copland called “a creator with a truly original gift,” performed by Mr. Del Tredici and by Marc Peloquin. On Saturday evening at 7:00 there will be a “Masterworks” [...]

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Gettysburg: One Woman’s War at St. Francis College This Wednesday

By on March 10, 2014 2:54 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Events, History, Theater

Saturday was International Women’s Day and, as a fitting follow-up, St. Francis College will present Gettysburg: One Woman’s War, a one woman play starring Michéle LaRue (photo from her performance in Someone Must Wash the Dishes) as a woman resident of Gettysburg during and after the great Civil War battle. According to the Eagle: The [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on March 7, 2014 1:16 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, History, movies, Music, Theater

The Brooklyn Heights Cinema is showing two new films starting this weekend: The Great Beauty, by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Toni Servillo, winner of this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Film; and ten time Oscar nominated American Hustle. More information and showtimes are here. Don’t forget the Cinema’s campaign to raise funds to buy digital [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on February 28, 2014 1:06 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn History, movies, Music, Theater

This weekend the Heights Players are premiering their new production of Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees in Honey Drown, described by The New York Times as “a delicious soufflé of satire.” Performances are at 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Make reservations here. The Brooklyn Heights Cinema, which is trying to [...]

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Theater 2020′s Candide Dazzles

By on February 27, 2014 5:13 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Music, Theater

Theater 2020′s production of Candide (Photo by LAB Photography of cast members Ryan Farnsworth as Candide, Lorinne Lampert as the Old Lady, and Ellie Bensinger as Cunegonde; a video follows the jump) continues its run at St. Charles Borromeo Church this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, February 28 to March 2, and the following weekend, March [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on February 20, 2014 11:39 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Fun, movies, Music, Theater

Bargemusic returns from a mid-winter break this weekend, with a full schedule of “Masterworks” concerts: one on Friday evening, February 21 at 7:00 featuring works by Joseph Joachim, György Ligeti, Toru Takemitsu, and Ernest Bloch performed by Nicholas Cords on viola and Jeewon Park on piano; another on Saturday evening, February 22 at 7:00 featuring [...]

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