Damon Runyon (1880-1946) (caricature: Tad, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons), from Manhattan, Kansas, became a prominent newspaperman in the Borough of Manhattan from the 1920s until his death. While he worked primarily as a sportswriter, he became fascinated by some aspects of New York life that accompanied the sporting scene, and wrote a series of […]
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Heights Players Open Season With Oliver!
Our neighbors at the Red Hook Star Revue have an excellent story about Brooklyn Heights’ community theater, the Heights Players, who stage their productions in the old chapel at 26 Willow Place (photo), between Joralemon and State Streets, in Willowtown. The Players began their 2018-19 season — their 63rd — this weekend with Lionel Bart’s […]
Heights Players’ Production of All the King’s Men Premieres This Weekend: Children’s Theater to Return
The Heights Players contnue their Diamond Anniversary season with their production of All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren, directed by Ed Healy, which opens this weekend. Performances will be at 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2, and a Sunday, April 3, 2:00 p.m. matinee, at the playhouse, 26 Willow Place. […]
Heights Players’ Production of Clare Boothe Luce’s The Women Opens This Weekend
This weekend (Friday evening, March 4 and Saturday evening, March 5 at 8:00, and Sunday afternoon, March 6 at 2:00) and for the following two weekends on the same schedule, the Heights Players will present their production of Clare Boothe Luce’s 1936 Broadway hit, The Women, “a highly acerbic commentary on the pampered lives of […]
Snow Update
As we’ve noted below, the Anti-Human Trafficking event at Plymouth Church has been postponed to Sunday, January 31 at 12:15 p.m. We called Heights Players and asked if the Saturday and Sunday performances of Arsenic and Old Lace this weekend were still on; we were told, “So far, so good.” If you have tickets or […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This is your last weekend to see the Heights Players’ production of Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace, described as “the world’s first horror comedy”. featuring BHB contributor Marc “Weegee” Hermann in the role of Officer O’Hara. Performances are Friday evening, January 22 and Saturday evening, January 23 at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon, January 24 […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
On Friday evening, January 15, starting at 8:00, Bargemusic will present an evening of American song, with soprano Jamie Jordan (photo: Berio’s Circles by Glenn Cornett) and pianist/composer Bobby Mitchell, doing songs by Mr. Mitchell and by Frederic Rzewski, Michael Finnissy, Stephen Sondheim, and George Gershwin. On Saturday evening, January 16 at 8:00 and on […]
Heights Players Premiere Arsenic and Old Lace This Weekend
The Heights Players continue their Diamond Jubilee season with Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace, described as “the world’s first horror comedy”. It was a hit on Broadway, then a movie directed by Frank Capra. The Heights Players production features BHB contributor Marc “Weegee” Hermann in the role of Officer O’Hara. Performances are Friday evening, […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Bargemusic starts the weekend early with a concert this evening (Thursday, December 17) at 8:00 featuring pianist Assaff Weisman playing works by Schumann, Liszt, and Schubert. On Friday evening, December 18, at 8:00 there’s a concert with Latin flavor; works by De Falla, Piazzolla, Fernando Otero, Villa-Lobos, Granados, and Gnattali will be performed by Jason […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This Saturday afternoon, December 12 at 3:00, at the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional theater company, will Present “A Radio Christmas Carol”, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, by David Fuller and performed as a one hour Radio Play, complete with […]
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