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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 13, 2013 4:51 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Fun, Kids, Literature, movies, Music, Parents, Religion, Theater, Visual Arts

This Sunday, June 16, starting at 10:30 a.m., author Emily Jenkins and illustrator Stephanie Graegin of the new children’s book Water in the Park will be at the Empire-Fulton Ferry section of Brooklyn Bridge Park (adjacent to Jane’s Carousel and the Tobacco Warehouse) will talk, read, and draw for the benefit of young readers and [...]

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Theater 2020 Presents Free Reading of Romantic French Comedy Saturday

By on June 12, 2013 2:21 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Theater

Our neighbors at Theater 2020 will present, as part of their Hearthside reading series, a free dramatic reading (not a staged play; the actors will be seated throughout) of Pierre Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love, an 18th century French romantic comedy, adapted and translated by Rod McLucas. The reading will be at the Brooklyn Public [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 6, 2013 5:44 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, History, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

Starting tomorrow (Friday, June 7) The Brooklyn Heights Cinema will be showing The East, an espionage thriller about a former FBI agent, Sarah Moss (Brit Marling), who is hired to infiltrate an anarchist group. The story is partly based on some experiences director Zal Batmanglij and Marling had when they “hung out with ‘anarchists’.” Batmanglij [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 31, 2013 1:09 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, movies, Music, Poetry, Theater

Step out into the cool(er) evening air and do some stargazing this Saturday (June 1) evening at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, starting at 8:00. Feel like making some music? The Sing For Hope pianos will be available this Saturday through Sunday, June 16. In our area, pianos can be found at Pier 1, Brooklyn [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 22, 2013 2:19 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, movies, Music, Theater

If you’re in town for the long weekend, there’s some stuff going on. On Friday evening at 8:00 Bargemusic will present composer, pianist, and thereminist Rob Schwimmer (photo) in a concert in the Bargemix Series, “The Wild World of Piano, Theremin, Continuum.” On Saturday evening at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 2:00 there will be [...]

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Reminder: Theater 2020′s Midsummer Night’s Dream Starts This Weekend

By on May 15, 2013 12:27 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Theater

As we noted previously, Brooklyn Heights’ own Theater 2020′s production of Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream begins its run this weekend, with performances Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00, and Sunday afternoon at 3:00, at St. Charles Borreomeo Church, 21 Sidney Place. You may make reservations by calling 718-624-3614 or e-mailing theater2020@gmail.com

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A Chorus Line Opens at Heights Players This Weekend

By on May 10, 2013 3:00 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Theater

Everything was beautiful at the ballet—or so the song goes in A Chorus Line, the perennial favorite musical which debuted off-Broadway in 1975 and has been in-demand ever since. And now, the Heights Players brings the A Chorus Line to Brooklyn Heights starting tonight, May 10th. From the ribald “Dance 10, Looks 3″ to the [...]

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Theater 2020 Presents Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream May 17-June 1

By on May 1, 2013 12:03 am in Arts and Entertainment, Theater

Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional stage company, will present Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 21 Sidney Place, on three successive weekends: Friday, May 17-Sunday, May 19; Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25; and Thursday, May 30 through Saturday, June 1. More details here

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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on April 18, 2013 10:43 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

This weekend is your last chance to see the Heights Players’ production of Steel Magnolias, which will be playing Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 2:00, at 26 Willow Place. On Saturday at noon, at the same location, Heights Players Theater for Children will present The Wizard of Oz, a “participation [...]

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‘Cotton Patch Gospel’ Comes To St. Ann & Holy Trinity April 21

By on April 5, 2013 1:47 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, charity, Events, Music, News, Religion, Theater

Off-Broadway musical “The Cotton Patch Gospel”—with music by Harry Chapin—will be staged at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church Sunday, April 21, at 3 p.m. The one-man show, performed by Phillip Kaufmann, will raise money for programs to help fight hunger. Admission is $10 plus goodwill offerings at the door, with 100% of proceeds [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on March 28, 2013 12:36 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, History, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

Theater 2020 will present a free reading of Oscar Wilde’s (photo) renowned romantic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest in the first floor auditorium of the endangered Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West (at Tillary Street) on Saturday afternoon (March 30) starting at 1:30 p.m. Wilde, it seems, was [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on March 16, 2013 7:30 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Bugle Sessions, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Theater

It’s the final weekend for Heights Players’ run of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town at 26 Willow Place, with a show Saturday evening at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2. More details are available, with tickets available online: $15 ($13 for seniors & under 18). Reservations can also be made at 718-237-2752. In addition, the [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on March 8, 2013 12:18 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Food, Literature, movies, Music, Theater

Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) will be showing Emperor, starring Matthew Fox as Japan expert General Bonner Fellers and Tommy Lee Jones (Oscar nominee for his role in Lincoln) as General Douglas MacArthur, the two of whom, in the wake of victory, decide the fate of Emperor Hirohito. The Cinema is [...]

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Deaton Delights; Next For Theater 2020, a Walk on the Wilde Side

By on March 5, 2013 2:47 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Music, Theater

On Saturday afternoon, Theater 2020 presented Ein Heldenleben (“A Hero’s Life”), a repertory of tenor arias, mostly from the German opera tradition, that call for great vocal range and dynamism. Marc Deaton, accompanied by Michael Fennelley on piano (photo) performed arias by Handel, Mozart, Weber, Wagner, Richard Strauss, and Korngold. Deaton’s voice was more than [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on March 1, 2013 12:10 am in Brooklyn Heights, Events, Food, movies, Music, Shopping, Theater

Grover’s Corners beckons! The Heights Players will open Thornton Wilder’s classic Our Town Friday evening at 8:00 at 26 Willow Place; there will also be performances at 8:00 p.m. Saturday and 2:00 p.m. Sunday. The show will run through the following two weekends, with the final performance Sunday, March 17. More details are here. The [...]

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Asteria Charms; Next Up: Tenor Heroics

By on February 18, 2013 2:36 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Music, Theater

Romance is the theme for Theater 2020 this season. Asteria (Eric Redlinger and Susan Rhyne; photo) provided an afternoon of Arthurian romance for a rapt audience at St. Charles Borromeo Church on Saturday. Lest you think that medieval romance is all gallant knights and blushing damsels, consider the words (translated from the French) of one [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on February 14, 2013 10:29 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, movies, Music, Theater

This weekend is your last chance to see the Heights Players’ production of Ray Cooney’s play Run For Your Wife, a comedy about a London cabbie whose perfect double life is on the verge of being undone by his good deed. Showtimes are 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:00 p.m. Sunday at 26 Willow [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on January 18, 2013 12:08 am in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, movies, Music, Theater

Much music, as well as live theater, cinema, architecture, and history, is on offer this weekend. Bargemusic, at Fulton Ferry Pier, foot of Old Fulton Street, has a full program of concerts, starting Friday evening at 8:00 with one in the Here and Now series, presenting works by contemporary composers performed by the Dorian Wind [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on December 6, 2012 12:16 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, movies, Music, Photography, Theater

The Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival will present Brooklyn Dynamics: Converging Lives on Film, a screening of three documentaries, at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), starting at 7:00 p.m. Friday (December 7). The films are: I Remember Barbra, reminiscences of Brooklyn born Barbra Streisand (photo) by those who have known [...]

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Theater 2020 Presents Two Holiday Events

By on November 25, 2012 11:48 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, Kids, Music, Parents, Theater

They were a great success last year, so our Brooklyn Heights neighbors, David Fuller and Judith Jarosz of Theater 2020, are presenting holiday events on the next two weekends. Both will be happening at St. Charles Borromeo, 21 Sidney Place. The first, on this coming Sunday, December 2, starting at 3:00 p.m. will be A [...]

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So, What’s On This Weekend?

By on November 1, 2012 11:05 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, charity, Cobble Hill, movies, Red Hook, Theater

Brooklyn Bridge Park is closed until further notice. Update: It appears it may be open Saturday. The Brooklyn Historical Society will be closed through Tuesday, November 6. Fortunately, Bargemusic didn’t sustain any serious damage, but repairs to an outside sprinkler pipe will keep it closed through this weekend. However, Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street [...]

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Brooklyn Heights’ Theater 2020 Hosts Mini-’Hamlet’ 11/10

By on October 26, 2012 2:18 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Theater

Brooklyn Heights’ professional theater company Theater 2020 will host a free “trimmed” reading of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” featuring professional actors from the company, on Saturday, November 10 at 1:30 p.m. Location: the first floor theater room at the Brooklyn Heights Public Library at 280 Cadman Plaza West. Doors open at 1, with the reading beginning [...]

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It is a Truth Universally Acknowledged that Jane Austen is the Toast of Brooklyn this Week

By on October 2, 2012 11:51 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Literature, Theater

We have previously noted Theater 2020′s partially staged reading, followed by a reception with the cast, of Lynn Marie Macy’s work in progress, Lady Susan or the Captive Heart, a Jane Austen Bodice Ripper, to be presented this Thursday evening, October 4 at St.Charles Borromeo Church, 21 Sidney Place, starting at 7:00 p.m. (suggested donation [...]

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Theater 2020′s ‘Lady Susan’ Hosts New Reading On Sidney Place Oct. 4

By on September 20, 2012 11:50 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Events, Theater

Playwright Lynn Marie Macy’s “Lady Susan Or The Captive Heart, a Jane Austen Bodice Ripper,” has been moving forward with workshops in Brooklyn Heights throughout 2012. (BHB correspondent Claude Scales previously reported on February and July stagings). Theater 2020 now presents another semi-staged reading of the new play Thursday, October 4, at 7 p.m. at [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on July 13, 2012 12:45 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, Events, Fun, Kids, Literature, movies, Music, Nature, Parents, Theater, Weather

Weather this weekend bids to not quite crack the ninety degree level, and some thunderstorms are expected, mostly late in the day. On Saturday, July 14, Brooklyn Bridge Park will be celebrating City of Water Day with kayaking in the Pier 1 boat basin (photo) (10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), and two activities great for [...]

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Theatrical Comedy ‘The Irish Curse’ Calls Brooklyn Heights Home

By on July 12, 2012 12:05 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Theater

Hey, Brooklyn Heights, we’re being dramatized again. A new play by acclaimed and well-traveled scriptwriter Martin Casella, “The Irish Curse,” opened July 7 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, and is set in our humble hood. The dramedy revolves around a group of Irish-American men who meet weekly in a Catholic church basement in [...]

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Update: Lady Susan Moving to New Location

By on July 9, 2012 9:01 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Theater

This Saturday’s (July 14) reading, presented by Theater 2020, of Lynn Marie Macy’s work-in-progress Lady Susan or the Captive Heart, a Jane Austen Bodice Ripper, originally scheduled to be held at the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, has, because of the Library’s well known air conditioning problems, been moved to St. Charles [...]

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RIP Marilyn J. Beck, Local Actress

By on July 1, 2012 11:50 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, movies, Obituaries, Theater

Marilyn J. Beck, a longtime Remsen St. resident and active member of the Heights Players, died at Long Island College Hospital Saturday night. She was 80. Marilyn hailed from Indiana, where she attended St. Mary’s College and Ball State University. She worked for many years as a New York City public school teacher, retiring in [...]

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Theater 2020 Offers Another Chance to See a Work in Progress: Lady Susan

By on July 1, 2012 11:25 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Events, Theater

This past February, our friends at Theater 2020 presented a reading of playwright Lynn Marie Macy’s work in progress, Lady Susan or the Captive Heart, a Jane Austen Bodice Ripper at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Heights Branch, Cadman Plaza West and Tillary Street. Your correspondent attended, and filed this report. Since then, Ms. Macy [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on June 22, 2012 12:30 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Events, Fun, Kids, Music, Photography, Theater

Photoville will be open at the uplands of Pier 3, Brooklyn Bridge Park (see map here) today (Friday, June 22), Saturday, and Sunday all day. This event has drawn notice from The New Yorker for its “Underage” exhibit, which features the work of young photographers. For the kids, the Park is hosting Puppet Mobile presenting [...]

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