Cynthia Babak News

Back for its sixth summer, the Fordham Alumni Company will present six theatre and dance-pieces, each with a connection to Fordham Alumni. From a pool of over thirty applicants, these works were granted rehearsal space and time, as well as a culminating workshop performance at Fordham's Lincoln Center campus. All performances will be presented at the Veronica Lally Kehoe Theater at Fordham College at Lincoln Center (113 W. 60th St., NYC). Admission is free. For reservations, e-mail FordhamAlumniCompany@gmail.com.

Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre will present its second annual production of Thornton Wilder's holiday gem, "The Long Christmas Dinner." Two casts - one black and one white - play the same American family in a celebration of life that spans 90 years and three generations all within 45 minutes. Written before "Our Town," the play takes place at the Christmas dinner table and as the family marks births, deaths and the eternal truths of life, it provides a profound and poignant theater experience.

One year after their sold-out site-specific run of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, one of Brooklyn's most acclaimed theater companies, Brave New World Repertory Theatre is back with Miller's dramatic vaudeville, The American Clock, at The Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope March 3-13, where it has been awarded a subsidized run.*

One year after their sold-out site-specific run of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, one of Brooklyn's most acclaimed theater companies, Brave New World Repertory Theatre is back with Miller's dramatic vaudeville, The American Clock, at The Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope March 3-13, where it has been awarded a subsidized run.*

Two of Brooklyn's most prestigious repertory companies - Brave New World Repertory Theatre and Company XIV - have announced their first-ever collaboration on The Halloween Plays, three spooky and original one-act plays suitable for both adults and young adults.

Two of Brooklyn's most prestigious repertory companies - Brave New World Repertory Theatre and Company XIV - have announced their first-ever collaboration on The Halloween Plays, three spooky and original one-act plays suitable for both adults and young adults. The Halloween Plays runs from October 21 - 31, 2010 at Company XIV's theatre space, located at 303 Bond Street, between Union & Sackett in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

Two of Brooklyn's most prestigious repertory companies - Brave New World Repertory Theatre and Company XIV - have announced their first-ever collaboration on The Halloween Plays, three spooky and original one-act plays suitable for both adults and young adults.

Two of Brooklyn's most prestigious repertory companies - Brave New World Repertory Theatre and Company XIV - have announced their first-ever collaboration on The Halloween Plays, three spooky and original one-act plays suitable for both adults and young adults. The Halloween Plays runs from October 21 - 31, 2010 at Company XIV's theatre space, located at 303 Bond Street, between Union & Sackett in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

Two of Brooklyn's most prestigious repertory companies - Brave New World Repertory Theatre and Company XIV - have announced their first-ever collaboration on The Halloween Plays, three spooky and original one-act plays suitable for both adults and young adults.

Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre will kick off its inaugural season of the Brave New World Shakespeare Festival in Prospect Park with four staged readings of As You Like It FREE to the public on July 22, 29, August 5 and 12 at 5pm.

Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre will kick off its inaugural season of the Brave New World Shakespeare Festival in Prospect Park with four staged readings of As You Like It FREE to the public on July 22, 29, August 5 and 12 at 5pm.

Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre is giving new meaning to the phrase 'taking the show on road.' In May, BNW is winding up its Sixth Annual Salon Series (featuring plays written by notable Brooklyn playwrights) with a staged reading of Budd Schulberg's On The Waterfront aboard the historic Waterfront Museum Barge.

Luigi Pirandello described the plot of his play, Right You Are, If You Think You Are as 'a great deviltry.' John Martello has fashioned a new translation of this invigorating classic. The reading is free and is in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Pirandello Society of America.

Luigi Pirandello described the plot of his play, Right You Are, If You Think You Are as 'a great deviltry.' John Martello has fashioned a new translation of this invigorating classic. The reading is free and is in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Pirandello Society of America.

Plays written by notable Brooklyn playwrights-four of whom are still alive, well and living in Brooklyn-make up the roster of five works to be presented as part of the Sixth Annual Play Reading Salon Series from Brave New World Repertory Theatre. Based in Brooklyn, Brave New World is known for its bold, critically acclaimed productions of Fahrenheit 451, The Great White Hope and Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, based on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (all for Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park bandshell); and To Kill a Mockingbird, staged on the front porches of a tree-lined Ditmas Park street.

Plays written by notable Brooklyn playwrights-four of whom are still alive, well and living in Brooklyn-make up the roster of five works to be presented as part of the Sixth Annual Play Reading Salon Series from Brave New World Repertory Theatre. Based in Brooklyn, Brave New World is known for its bold, critically acclaimed productions of Fahrenheit 451, The Great White Hope and Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, based on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (all for Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park bandshell); and To Kill a Mockingbird, staged on the front porches of a tree-lined Ditmas Park street.