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Wilde Times at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Beginning this coming Tuesday evening, June 18 at 7:00 and continuing each evening at the same time through Sunday, June 23 on the Bridge View Lawn of Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the New York Classical Theatre will present free performances of Oscar Wilde’s (photo) The Importance of Being Earnest. Considered one of the great […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

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

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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