The new playground at the Old Stone House & Washington Park is open at long last, and we’re thrilled that everyone is so excited about the space.
Because of cutbacks in the NYC Parks budget we do NOT have maintenance coverage on Fridays and Saturdays — this isn’t expected to change but we have hired someone [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
JJ Byrne Playground Opens – Help Us Care for the Park!
Brave New World Rep – The Long Christmas Dinner
[ November 22, 2011 11:00 pm to December 18, 2011 11:00 pm. ] December 18 at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30
Join Brave New World Rep for a special holiday gift – a free dinner and performance of The Long Christmas Dinner, Thornton Wilder’s 40 minute one-act play that spans 90 years in the life of the Bayard family. Two casts – see it twice! Tickets are limited, and will [...]
The Brooklyn Brandenburgers Annual Holiday Concert
[ November 22, 2011 7:00 pm to December 11, 2011 3:00 pm. ] Saturday, December 10 @ 7 pm, Sunday, December 11 @ 2 pm
Join us for our lovely annual holiday concert with our “house band” The Brooklyn Brandenburgers. With music by Bach, Vivaldi, Warlock, Nielson and Janacek.
The Brooklyn Brandenburgers are: Violins: Jane Buckwalter, Michelle Des Roches, Bonne Mogulescu,
Joanne Boger, Herb Dalin & Juliana Boehm
Violas: Howard [...]
The Gowanus Canal Anthology by Donnaldson Brown – A Staged Reading Directed by Welker White
[ November 22, 2011 10:00 pm to December 12, 2011 10:00 pm. ] Monday, December 12, 7 pm – 9 pm
The Gowanus Canal Anthology features four characters living among the brownstone row houses, small factories and warehouses that line the narrow streets and waterways of South Brooklyn from 1982 to 2004 — a period when this tip of the borough emerged from decades of isolation and neglect [...]
Hugh Crawford – Sections
[ November 1, 2011 2:00 am to March 18, 2012 8:00 pm. ] Photographer Hugh Crawford’s latest work. On view from Saturday, December 3, 2011 through Sunday, March 18, 2012. Call ahead to confirm gallery times.
Brooklyn Reading Works: Make Mine a Double
[ September 23, 2011 12:00 pm to November 18, 2011 10:00 pm. ] Make Mine a Double (Why Women Like us Drink) is curated by author and humorist Gina Barreca.
$5 suggested donation. Drinks and snacks available.
Polybe + Seats: Alice, or the Scottish Gravediggers
[ August 6, 2011 6:00 pm to November 13, 2011 10:00 pm. ] Alice, or the Scottish Gravediggers, was written in 1829 by the “father of melodrama”, René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt, who was inspired by the infamous Burke & Hare murders in which grave robbers turned to murder as a more efficient source for corpses. Polybe + Seats’ take on Pixerecourt’s gruesome tale of love and betrayal further [...]
