Hot Tickets: M. Ward, Sounds Like Brooklyn, BAM’s Next Wave
It may be a cliché to say this these days, but music is Brooklyn’s biggest and best export. If you’re favorite band isn’t from Chicago or Austin, it’s probably from Kings County. All of which makes the...
View ArticleMake Way for Mamet the Didact!
David Mamet's new play is here! The play that was to be Mamet, back in classic Mamet form! With a plot so incendiary that nothing about it could be revealed before performances started! With its poster...
View ArticleBroadway Can’t Have Cate Blanchett
The New York Times today dissects the possiblity of an extremely successful Australian production of A Streetcar Named Desire, currently playing at BAM, moving to Broadway. That possibility appears...
View ArticleBroadway Producer Flirts With Blanchett
This takes care of one obstacle: Stephen C. Byrd, the Broadway producer with the rights to stage Streetcar, has told The Times that he wants to help transfer the Cate Blanchett BAM production to...
View ArticleYoko Ono Shimmies, Shakes and Shines with Clapton, Midler, Simon, and Sons
"I have to tell you," Yoko Ono said to her audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night, a few days before her 77th birthday, "you have a long life ahead of you, and it’s going to be...
View Article‘Final Fantasy’ Concert Coming to Brooklyn
Things we learned today: The hugely popular Final Fantasy games have their own concert series! Distant Worlds: Music From FINAL FANTASY will make its New York premiere in April at the Brooklyn Academy...
View ArticleThe End of an Era: a James Levine-less Met Will Still Open With a Triumphant...
Anna Netrebko as Anna Bolena. (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe / Metropolitan Opera) James Levine will not be conducting at the Metropolitan Opera this fall. There is no fall season at the New York City Opera....
View ArticleThe National to Curate a Music Festival for BAM: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
A music festival grows in Brooklyn! (Sorry, had to.) Call them the future of Indie Rock, Brooklyn Rock, Dad Rock, or Adult Contemporary, two key members of home-grown Brooklyn band The National—Bryce...
View ArticleLineup for Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, BAM Music Festival Curated by The...
In January, the Brooklyn Academy of Music announced that they'd be hosting a three-day music festival, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (named for the Walt Whitman poem) curated by the Bryce Dessner and Aaron...
View ArticleCity Launches Wireless Corridor Challenge and WiredNYC
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced two new tech initiatives to expand the city’s access to wireless and broadband connectivity, one of which encourages the deployment of leading broadband...
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