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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

This weekend the Heights Players premiere their production of Terry Johnson’s stage adaptation of the classic 1960s movie and novel The Graduate. Performances are Friday, January 9 and Saturday, January 10 at 8:00 p.m., and a Sunday matinee, January 11 at 2:00 p.m., at the Playhouse, 26 Willow Place. The play will continue through the […]

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Had Enough Christmas? Theater 2020 Says “No”; Offers Jane Austen as Temptation

This is a tough sell. With the Christmas season, and New Year’s, just behind, even the most Tiny Timmish of us might be ready to say, “Bah, humbug!” Nevertheless Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional stage company, will boldly go against conventional wisdom and present a reading of Innocent Diversions, a Christmas Entertainment with Jane […]

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

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

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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Theater 2020’s Lady Susan Works Her Wiles

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 […]

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Theater 2020 to Present Free Dramatic Reading Saturday, February 25

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 […]

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