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Scott Aukerman brings his popular podcast, 'Comedy Bang! Bang' live on stage at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, August 20 at 7PM (Doors at 5:30PM).

The Brooklyn-based performance group Object Collection, acclaimed for its invigorating blend of music and theater, will remount its live, staged adaptation of Robert Ashley's seminal studio composition, Automatic Writing (1979).

The Bushwick Starr will partner with The Chocolate Factory Theater to present The Institute of Useless Activity’s THIS AND THAT, co-created by international theater director Phil Soltanoff (2020 Herb Alpert Award recipient) and performer/puppeteer Steven Wendt (Blue Man Group).

Tomasz Stańko – one of Europe's most original and beloved jazz musicians – was born on July 11, 1942, in Rzeszów, Poland, and he passed away in Warsaw on July 29, 2018.

651 ARTS - Brooklyn's premier organization for the African Diasporic performing arts - today named Toya Lillard as the renowned institution's Executive Director.

The Brooklyn-based contemporary ballet company konverjdans, founded and directed by women dancers and choreographers Amy Saunder, Jordan Miller and Tiffany Mangulabnan, launches its sixth season in New York City.

THE ART OF KILLIN' IT has been extended again for the last time.

The Dragon Sisters bring their unique blend of dance, music, theater, hip-hop and pure thrill to JACK for two nights only.

From August 12 through 25, BAM presents a series of cinematic masterpieces—all over the three-hour mark—that are sprawling in ambition and rich in observation and human insight.

EXTENSITY is launching EXT Pop Ups-an ongoing series of short-form concerts spotlighting today's most promising emerging composers in non-traditional venues and unexpected locations-with two adventurous California recitals in partnership with Wildflower Composers.

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Commissioner Laurie Cumbo announced today $4.

National Sawdust has announced its Fall 2022 season, bringing musical and multidisciplinary artists from around the world to its state-of-the-art Williamsburg, Brooklyn home to share ambitious new explorations.

The Bushwick Starr is partner with The Chocolate Factory Theater to present The Institute of Useless Activity’s THIS AND THAT, co-created by international theater director Phil Soltanoff (2020 Herb Alpert Award recipient) and performer/puppeteer Steven Wendt (Blue Man Group).

The Space at Ironale will present Jean Genet’s richly sinister play, The Maids, August 18-21.

JACK has announced the appointment of theater director, writer, and facilitator Skye Kowaleski to join Jordana De La Cruz as Co-Director of JACK.

NOoSPHERE Arts presents WE ARE NATURE 2022: Patterns of Connection on July 23, August 27, and September 24, 2022 at the NOoSPHERE Arts Stage Roof, NYC and Kingsland Wildflowers at Broadway Stages, Brooklyn.

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Opa! It's Christmas in July! 'My Big Fat Gay Jewish Christmas Spectacular' brings holiday cheer to Brooklyn with a one-night-only benefit event on Tuesday, July 26 at 7 PM at 3 Dollar Bill in Brooklyn, New York.

Beginning July 29, BAM presents a new restoration of Ayoka Chenzira's previously unreleased feature film Alma's Rainbow (1993) screening with a new restoration of Chenzira's short film Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People (1984).

With nearly 40 million YouTube subscribers and 400 million monthly viewers across its YouTube channels, the Spy Ninjas announced they will take their detective, martial arts, and hacking skills from the screen to the stage with the all new Spy Ninjas Live.

The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company will present Romeo and Juliet at the Vino Theater in Brooklyn as part of Sour Grapes Productions' 2022 'So Many Shakespeares' festival.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden, in partnership with We Players, will present Mother Lear on August 24–28.

What Will the Neighbors Say? have announced that Co-Founding Co-Artistic Director Ana Cristina Da Silva is moving on to her next artistic venture and stepping away from the company at the end of their current season in August 2022.

Beginning July 15, BAM presents Nana Mensah's debut feature film Queen of Glory.