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Persisticon presents an evening of comedy, music, and pitchfork-waving to benefit EMILY'S List, an organization committed to electing progressive, pro-choice women, and equalizing the representation of all genders in government.

Magical Promotions, together with Coney Island USA, presents an afternoon of fun and wonder for the entire family.

Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) today announced its 2018 spring season, convening noted writers, cultural critics, journalists, activists, and artists with the public to discuss issues that are vital to communities in Brooklyn and Greater New York and across the nation.

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), the Posthumously Celebrated Artist, Writer and Feminist, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Surrealist, Chilean Filmmaker, Inspire This Production Developed on Double Edge's Farm in Rural Western Massachusetts

Gallery Players continues its 51st season with a blast from the past, Neil Simon's comedy classic, Plaza Suite.

PEN America presents the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival: Resist and Reimagine, this year's incarnation of the renowned international literary festival, which will bring together the world's foremost authors and other luminaries at a time when many are turning to literature and the arts not for escap

Artistic Director Philip Markle and Programming Director Annie Donley, who collaboratively helped launch and run the Annoyance Theater's Brooklyn branch, are announcing The Brooklyn Comedy Collective, a new comedy theater and school producing live shows, Thursday to Saturday nights, and six-week imp

BRIC is pleased to announce that Academy and Grammy Award-winning actor and musician Common will open the 40th annual BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival with a free concert on June 5 at the Prospect Park Bandshell, marking the first event in a yearlong celebration to cap off four decades for the pion

Enjoy a FREE fully staged performance of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly".

Composer Dan Furman has reworked his first musical, Impossible But True, and is preparing to present it starting in April - first in Brooklyn then across the river in Manhattan.

A popular oral and musical epic of women's power from the steppes of Central Asia receives a contemporary multimedia treatment in Qyrq Qyz, directed by Uzbek filmmaker Saodat Ismailova, with music by Tashkent-based Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky and nine young musicians trained in the oral tradition.

Hatched, written and directed by Mara McEwin, is the original performance of a newborn chick emerging from her shell at sunrise to a strange and busy world.

On Stage at Kingsborough, a leading performing arts presenter located at Brooklyn's Kingsborough Community College is pleased to announce its 2017-2018 season, featuring world class artists from around the globe.

The comedy community comes together for 'Animal Show', a monthly standup show featuring some of Brooklyn's best.

The Parsnip Ship & The Actors Fund presented a reading of Daniel K.

The Heights Players in Brooklyn proudly presents Seussical - the magical, toe-tapping, family-friendly musical based on the works of Dr.

BRIC presents "secular gospel" duo Birds of Chicago on March 8 in an evening of raw and soul-rich music that demands to be experienced live, co-curated with Joan Osborne's Womanly Hips Presents.

Brooklyn Music School (BMS) announces registration for the Summer Music & Dance Institute, providing children ages 5- 8 with broad introduction to music, dance, and the performing arts at Brooklyn's best and most affordable summer programming.

Kings Theatre presents Four-time GRAMMY Award-nominated rapper and singer-songwriter Ja Rule has released six Top 10 albums, including Rule 3:36 and Pain Is Love.

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA; Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director) has added a performance (February 8 at 9pm) to its critically lauded world premiere production of Adrienne Kennedy's He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, directed by Evan Yionoulis.

As BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, February 5th, Tony-winner and screen actor John Mahoney passed away at the age of 77.

we ARE all in this together! brooklyn theatre club is the only immersive company that casts our audience in speaking roles alongside the actors - scripts, props and costumes provided! we have been featured and listed in Playbill, Bustle, The Brooklyn Paper, Brokelyn, Village Voice, The Skint, Broadw

On May 30, BAM honors filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, actor Jeremy Irons, and philanthropists Nora Ann Wallace and Jack Nusbaum for their invaluable contributions to film, performing arts, and cultural philanthropy.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2017-18 Kumble Theater season with Daniel Beaty's solo theatrical tour-de-force, Emergency, on Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 8pm and Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 3pm.

In response to popular demand, Soho Rep.