Brooklyn Reading Works: New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights
Thursday, February 16, 2012: 8 pm – 10 pm
New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights, curated by Rosemary Moore, brings together five accomplished playwrights –Trish Harnetiaux, Marian Fontana & Leah Gray Mitchell, Karen Hartman and Joseph Goodrich — presenting their latest works-in-progress.
Suggested donation of $5 includes refreshments.
Marian Fontana is a playwright and performer whose plays and one-woman shows have been performed at Playwrights Horizons,the Vineyard Theater, Variety Arts and more. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Her memoir A Widows Walk was published by Simon and Schuster in 2005 and was chosen as People Magazines “Top Ten Reads” for that year. She recently finished her second memoir, Middle of the Bed.
Joseph Goodrich is an Edgar Award-winning playwright and the editor of Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950 (Perfect Crime Books). His plays have been produced across the United States and in Austrialia and are published by Samuel French, Playscripts, Inc.; The Padua Hills Press; and others.
Trish Harnetiaux is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her recent full-length plays include Your Pretty Little World, adapted from Shirley Jackson’s novel, The Bird’s Nest; Welcome to the White Room; and Mr. Bungle and the Incident on Lambdamoo. She has been a two-time Fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and The Corporation of Yaddo. Harnetiaux received her MFA from Mac Wellman’s playwriting program at Brooklyn College and currently, she is a member of the 2011/2012 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab where she is writing her new play, an unconventional love story titled The Convention.
Karen Hartman’s Goldie, Max, and Milk premiered last season at Florida Stage and the Phoenix Theater, and was nominated for the Steinberg and Carbonell Awards. Wild Kate opened at ACT in San Francisco ,and will be published by Playscripts this month. An alumna of New Dramatists, Karen has taught playwriting extensively, including at the Yale School of Drama, and currently leads popular writing workshops in New York. Her prose has been published in the New York Times.
Leah Gray Mitchell graduated from the NYC High School of Performing Arts as a music major and received her BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase. She has performed in numerous films and theatre projects, as well as composing and performing original music.
Rosemary Moore’s Side Street, Slight Kidnapping, The Bar Play, Aunt Pieces, Pain of Pink Evenings and Pineapple have been read or staged at the Cherry Lane Alternative, The New Group, New York Theater Workshop, New Georges, Manhattan Theater Source, The Old Stone House, Barbes and Here. Her play, The Pain of Pink Evenings, was published in The Best American Short Plays of 2001 by Applause Books. During the day she teaches writing at Rutgers University. Rosemary holds an MFA from the Dramatic Writing Program of Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where she studied with Maria Irene Fornes and Tony Kushner
Show & Tell: Artists Hugh Crawford and Shawn Dulaney
Tuesday, February 7, 2012: 8 pm – 10 pm
Remember Show & Tell in elementary school? When you got a chance to bring something in from home to show your class? It was simple, innocent fun. Join painter Shawn Dulaney and photographer Hugh Crawford in the cozy upstairs gallery at The Old Stone House to learn about their work and ask questions about their creative process. At this informal gathering with wine and light refreshments, the artists will explore the themes that inspire their work and their reasons for making it. It’s a chance to go behind the scenes of the the creative process and find out the why, what and how of artistic endeavors.
Shawn Dulaney, whose work is currently on view at the Sears Peyton Gallery in Chelsea, has worked as a painter for over three decades, exhibiting nationwide. Her paintings can be found in extensive public collections worldwide-the Hunterdon Museum of Art in New Jersey, the Trump International Hotel in New York, The Venetia Resort in Macan, China, as well as in the private collections of author Annie Proulx, actor Steve Buscemi, artist Jo Andres and musician Stuart Copeland.
Hugh Crawford whose current exhibit, Sections, is on view at the Old Stone House, studied photography and received a BA from Bard College, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and Tattler. His fine art work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in NYC and San Francisco. A recipient of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he was also an artist-in-residence at ArtPark in Buffalo, NY. He is currently at work on a book about Polaroid photographer Jamie Livingston. His photos can be seen daily on the No Words Daily Pix feature of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.
Brave New World Rep – The Long Christmas Dinner
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 be distributed beginning at Noon at the entrance to the Old Stone House, which faces 4th Avenue at the center of the park. For more information call 718-768-3195 or visit Brave New World’s website.
The Brooklyn Brandenburgers Annual Holiday Concert
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 Chasnoff, Nadine Post, Rose Moskowitz
Celli: Martha Siegel, Peter Joseph
Bass: Calvin Bennett
Flutes: Tracy Fitz, Joan Sturgis
Recorder: Martin Bernstein
Tickets: $10. Limited seating. Purchase in advance on-line at www.brownpapertickets.com or reserve at 718-768-3195/info@theoldstonehouse.org
The Gowanus Canal Anthology by Donnaldson Brown – A Staged Reading Directed by Welker White
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 to take its place as one of New York City’s most vibrant communities.
Written by Donnaldson Brown and directed by Welker White.
Suggested donation: $5, includes drinks and snacks
Old Stone House/Park Slope Parents Harvest Festival
Sunday, October 23, 2011 – 11 am – 3 pm
Our annual pony ride, petting zoo, facepainting, craft activity extravaganza with music by Jon Samson, Kari Groff and the Famous Accordion Orchestra. Visit the Park Slope Farmer’s Market along the way to our events on 4th Street between 5th and 4th Avenues.
The Glory of Brooklyn’s Gowanus – Leslie-Arlette Boyce and Brian Merlis
Join us for a reception, author talk and book signing with Leslie-Arlette Boyce and Brian Merlis, authors of The Glory of Brooklyn’s Gowanus: Legacy, Industry, Artistry at 7 pm on Tuesday September 13, 2011 in the Great Room at The Old Stone House.
Hugh Crawford – Sections
Photographer Hugh Crawford’s latest work. On view from Saturday, December 3, 2011 through Sunday, March 18, 2012. Call ahead to confirm gallery times.
