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MAGIC AT CONEY!!! to Return This Weekend at Coney Island Museum
by BWW News Desk - January 04, 2017
Magical Promotions, together with Coney Island USA, presents an afternoon of fun and wonder for the entire family. 'Magic at Coney!!!' is a magical variety show highlighting a vast array of magicians; featuring illusionists, escape artists, mentalists and close-up magicians from around the world.
JACK Presents Brooklyn Gypsies ONE CATCHES LIGHT FESTIVAL
by BWW News Desk - January 03, 2017
Brooklyn Gypsies presents the second-annual One Catches Light Festival, celebrating new solo work of five writers associated with the company, with stand-up comic Olander 'Big O' Wilson presiding over the evenings. Icarus in the L.E.S. is a kaleidoscopic performance-poem by Nic Adams, with the wax-winged hero chasing his destiny and scouting out the divide between artistic achievement and personal happiness. I Have No Room for the Broken, written by Angela Abreu, is a play about a cascade towards romantic ruin.
LABA Presents DRUNK Other Wine: A Night of Art, Drinking, and Torah at the 14th Street
by BWW News Desk - January 03, 2017
What could be more pleasant and liberating than being intoxicated, and what could at times be more horrid? Are we, by drinking, allowing our 'other side' to manifest itself in the open? What happens when we find this 'other side' too scary - or perhaps more dangerously, too attractive?
The Knitting Factory Presents Sarah Murdoch, Gaelynn Lea and More
by BWW News Desk - January 03, 2017
Sarah Murdoch's voice has been described as 'hypnotic, addictive, and the perfect balance between charm and grit' (AXS August 2016). A regular performer at Parkside Lounge and Sidewalk Cafe, she combines powerful blues vocals with a modern folk influences resulting in uniquely haunting ballads that 'continue to establish her as a formidable voice on the downtown music scene. '  
BABY MAMA Opens this Week at IRT Theater
by BWW News Desk - January 02, 2017
Written and performed by Mariah MacCarthy, Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People tracks her true-to-life adoption journey, from an accidental conception to the placement of her child with the gay couple of her dreams.
Ring in the New Year at the Beach with Coney Island USA
by BWW News Desk - December 31, 2016
Ring in the New Year with Coney Island USA, your Not For Profit Arts Organization at the Beach!
LABA Presents DRUNK Other Wine: A Night of Art, Drinking, and Torah
by BWW News Desk - December 29, 2016
What could be more pleasant and liberating than being intoxicated, and what could at times be more horrid? Are we, by drinking, allowing our 'other side' to manifest itself in the open?
House of Yes to Host 1st Anniversary THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING Free Dance Party
by BWW News Desk - December 27, 2016
House of Yes, which has quickly become Brooklyn's favorite avant-garde nightlife hotspot will celebrate its one year anniversary on Friday January 6, 2017 by saying thank you to their loyal fans and hosting a FREE dance party (RSVP required).
STAGE TUBE: Rachel Sweeney and More Present A Christmas Message to Loved Ones...Who Voted for Trump
by BWW News Desk - December 23, 2016
Family voted for Trump? Avoid politics by avoiding them altogether. Here's a song to help you tell them to have a merry little Christmas without you! Whether you're taking a blue-state-staycation because you're from a red state or practicing some self-love and avoiding your politically-challenged in-laws, here's a song to tell your Trump-voting loved ones that you won't be home for the holidays:
Plunge into 2017 with Magic at Coney!
by BWW News Desk - December 23, 2016
New Years at Coney Island has always been a highly anticipated regional event. Thanks to the Polar Bear Plunge, January 1st is the second largest gathering of the year, after the summertime Mermaid's Parade.
Ring in the New Year at the Beach with Coney Island USA
by BWW News Desk - December 22, 2016
Ring in the New Year with Coney Island USA, your Not For Profit Arts Organization at the Beach!
Gilbert Gottfried & Phoebe Robinson Join Eliot Glazer for AN EVEN MORE SPECIAL HAUNTING RENDITIONS HOLIDAY SHOW
by BWW News Desk - December 22, 2016
Eliot Glazer is bringing back his iconic show Haunting Renditions Live - this time for 'An Even More Special Haunting Renditions Holiday Show' with special guests Gilbert Gottfried and Phoebe Robinson. The show is tonight, December 22 at 8:30pm at The Bell House.
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company to Perform at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
by BWW News Desk - December 21, 2016
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College will once again partner with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company for its fourth annualLunar New Year Celebration on Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 3pm.
Happy Solstice from Make Music New York!
by BWW News Desk - December 21, 2016
Happy Solstice! Come Celebrate with Make Music Winter.
Brooklyn Museum Announces Public Program Schedule For January
by BWW News Desk - December 19, 2016
The Brooklyn Museum will present a variety of programs for adults, teens, and kids in January. Public programs include talks, performances, and hands-on workshops for children and adults that amplify the Museum's exhibitions and permanent collection, serve its diverse public, and support learning through the visual arts.
American Lyric Theater in Partnership with MasterVoices Presents InsightALT
by BWW News Desk - December 19, 2016
American Lyric Theater (ALT) in partnership with MasterVoices (formerly The Collegiate Chorale), presents The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turingon January 12, 2017 at 7:30pm in the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center, 129 W 67th Street, New York City. 
Puppetworks Announces Fall Presentation
by BWW News Desk - December 18, 2016
Puppetworks is pleased to announce the Fall presentation in its Brooklyn theatre: a Marionette presentation of 'Hansel & Gretel' based on the story by the Brothers Grimm.
Online Bidding Ends Tonight for the 2016 TRU Holiday Auction
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 2016
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces its annual charity fundraiser, The 2016 TRU Holiday Auction, with online bidding open now through Friday night, December 16, 2016 at 10pm.
The House of Yes Presents Xmas Spectacular HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Directed by Anya Sapozhnikova & Kae Burke
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 2016
This holiday season, Bushwick's incredible performance space House of Yes once again welcomes back a special edition of its sixth annual Xmas Spectacular: Home For The Holidays, an immersive engagement of six performances running from December 16-22. Starring Anya Sapozhnikova and Kae Burke as themselves; the co-founders and co-creative directors of House of Yes, alongside a cast of 22 talented performers specializing in aerial, circus, dancing and mind boggling theatrics, the House of Yes Xmas Spectacular is set to be a holiday theatrical extravaganza like no other.
Title:Point Presents CHROMA KEY at The Brick Theater
by BWW News Desk - December 15, 2016
Chroma Key is an existential gross-out comedy about a woman pulled through parallel universes, and the dangerous things she brings with her. From an uncomfortable drive through the woods to an out-of-control detective novel where the narration disobeys its own narrator, to a nightly news broadcast performed by vomiting preteens with excellent spelling, no story seems safe enough for her to stand at its center.
WHAT'S YOUR DAMAGE? to Return to The Grand in Brooklyn This Month
by BWW News Desk - December 15, 2016
Every month Sachi Ezura and Halle Kiefer host a stand-up/storytelling show that asks performers, 'What, exactly, is your damage?'
Gallery Players Offers Free Tickets to Military & Veterans for A FEW GOOD MEN
by BWW News Desk - December 14, 2016
Gallery Players, Brooklyn's premier Off-Off Broadway Theater has announced a new ticket donation program for the USO.  For the duration of A Few Good Men, Gallery Players is donating tickets to both active duty and retired military personnel for all remaining shows.  This program gives soldiers and their families visiting New York a chance to see the Aaron Sorkin Classic.  It tells the story the gripping story of of subpar Guantanamo Bay marine PFC William Santiago who mysteriously died after his platoon mates Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and PFC Landon Downy give him a "code red."  
Brooklyn Museum's WHO SHOT SPORTS: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY, 1843 TO PRESENT To Close
by BWW News Desk - December 14, 2016
On Sunday, January 8, Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present closes at the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn Museum Announces TARGET FIRST SATURDAY, 1/7
by BWW News Desk - December 14, 2016
On January 7, celebrate the New Year with artists and change makers at Target First Saturday. Highlights include performances by Tank and The Bangas, Discwoman, and Cakes Da Killa; a pop-up feminist publishing workshop with Pilot Press; and a screening of Suited.
WBAI Starts NEW Holiday Tradition with the Reading of 'The Snowy Day' by Ezra Jack Keats on State of the Arts NYC
by BWW News Desk - December 14, 2016
Host/Producer Savona Bailey-McClain has reached out to the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation to start a new literary tradition at the station. This year marks the 100th birthday of author and book illustrator, Ezra Jack Keats.

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