Aug. 28, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen The Gowanus Canal has lived many lives. Most recently, the 1.8 mile canal is known for its pollution: it was named a Superfund site in 2010, thanks to the oily sheen on its surface and less-than-natural smells that sometimes rise from its waters. Before it was the subject…
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Brooklyn Academy of Music announces new artistic director and experimental fall programming
Jun. 21, 2024 By Jada Camille
The Brooklyn Academy of Music is launching itself into a new season art and performance with new leadership and themed programming beginning this fall.
BrooklynONE Productions cuts ribbon on Tom Kane Theatre, paying tribute to late co-founder in new Industry City space
Mar. 27, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil
“Art is alive in Brooklyn!”
Show me how you burlesque! Coney Island performers offer immersive theater experience
Mar. 13, 2024 By Jada Camille
Coney Island USA, the neighborhood’s chief art institute, will toe the line between entertaining and risqué with their latest immersive theater act, Ritual Cabaret Art Brothel, debuting on March 15.
‘Remember This Trick’ explores antisemitism, complex history, and tales of Jewish survival at the Target Margin Theater
Mar. 4, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Describing “Remember This Trick,” a new play running at the Target Margin Theater in Sunset Park, isn’t easy even for David Herskovits, who conceptualized and directed the production.
Propagandist filmmaker faces ‘purgatory of her own making’ in ‘Leni’s Last Lament’ at the Invisible Dog Art Center
Jan. 24, 2024 By Melissa Fishman
Beginning on March 13, Brave New World Repertory Theatre will debut its 2024 Season with the world premiere of “Leni’s Last Lament,” a one-woman show about the controversial World War II filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.
Williamsburg project will adapt historic theater into apartments, keep striking exterior
Jan. 8, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
A 19th century Romanesque Revival-style building on Williamsburg’s South 6th Street, built as as theater and until recently slated to be razed for a 26-story hotel, will keep its striking exterior and be converted to a 29-unit residential building.
A whale of a time: ‘Orca: A One-Whale Musical’ to debut at Waterfront Museum
Oct. 4, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
A new musical is in town, and it’s sure to blow audiences out of the water. “ORCA: A One-Whale Musical” is set to premiere in Red Hook later this month.
‘The Little Venue That Could’: Brooklyn theaters win $10k grants to help keep indie theater alive
Sep. 15, 2023 By Melissa Fishman
Two small Brooklyn theaters struggling with the financial burdens of the pandemic are now flourishing with the help of organization IndieSpace and their inaugural “Little Venue That Could” program.
Puerto Rican musical ‘Bomba and the Coquí’ to open Piper Theatre’s summer season in Park Slope
May. 24, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro
Brooklynites will experience Puerto Rico in all its colors this summer at the theater.