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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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
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 […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
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 […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
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 […]
Director Enjoys Ménage à Trois in Latest Heights Players Production
The Heights Players present Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife this month (January 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 8:00 p.m) directed by its president Ed Healy. It marks the company’s first production of a Busch play.
Healy discusses directing the play and its infamous ménage à trois scene in an interview with Local Theatre NY – watch it after the jump.
Heights Players Present Benefit for Cancer-Stricken Couple
Sometimes, tragedy strikes in ways that seem unimaginable, as in the instance of a young couple, parents of a 20 month old daughter, both diagnosed with potentially fatal cancers within days of each other. The Brooklyn Paper: The Heights Players will hold a performance of the company’s current — and very well-reviewed — show, plus […]
Heights Players’ Frost/Nixon Opens Tomorrow
The Heights Players production of Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan’s dramatization of the 1977 interviews of the former President by British talk show host David Frost (see video clip after the jump), opens tomorrow night at the playhouse at 26 Willow Place. Curtain time is 8:00 p.m.
Heights Players: A Look Inside Women Behind Bars
LocalTheaterNY.com has posted the first in what it promises is a series of “webisodes” about the making of the Heights Players latest production Women Behind Bars. In the first eppy, they talk to actress Jami Lea Cook (“Louise”). See the clip after the jump.
Heights Players to Stage Women Behind Bars
The Heights Players, “Brooklyn’s oldest self-sustaining community theater”, will present Tom Eyen’s 1975 comedy Women Behind Bars at 26 Willow Place, January 7-23. For more information,
Heights Players Launch Leading Ladies
The Brooklyn Paper’s Butcher of Flatbush Avenue, who hasn’t been too kind to our own Heights Players in the past, gives a rave for the troupe’s latest production, Leading Ladies. Brooklyn Paper: However tired the plot, the laughs keep coming in surprisingly quick succession. The Heights Players weren’t necessarily born for their roles, but they’re […]
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