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The Green-Wood Cemetery Presents CONCERTS IN THE CATACOMBS
by BWW News Desk - March 23, 2022
The Green-Wood Cemetery has announced a new series of concerts featuring boundary-breaking performers in its historic Catacombs. 
Dominique Morisseau's PIPELINE to Open This Saturday At Gallery Players
by BWW News Desk - March 22, 2022
Gallery Players will continue its 55th season with PIPELINE by Dominique Morisseau: the first New York revival since its premiere in 2017 at Lincoln Center's Newhouse Theater.
Brazilian Choeographer Alice Ripoll and Suave Make US Premiere at BAM, CRIA Next Week
by BWW News Desk - March 22, 2022
CRIA is the embodiment of youth. Taking the movement vocabularies of dancinha, a hot mix of funk, samba, and breakdance, and passinho, the life force of favela culture, choreographer Alice Ripoll relocates the wild exuberance of adolescence through dance. Driven by the social injustice in Brazil, the piece alternates between intense states of exultation and celebration, with the highly charged group absorbing and reconstructing the music's rapid and jerky rhythm.
Tesla Quartet's FOR THE TREES Comes to National Sawdust in April
by BWW News Desk - March 21, 2022
For the Trees is an immersive, multimedia show centered on a new string quartet by Boulder, Colorado composer Jeffrey Nytch and performed by Tesla Quartet. Inspired by increasingly serious concerns regarding the dire realities of climate change's potential to uproot our immediate future, For the Trees features components of live music, sound installation, spoken word, and visual images.
Humor Darlings to Host Live Comedy Show, JINX!
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2022
The Humor Darlings are set to host a musical comedy and character showcase, Jinx! The production marks the third installment of the show, which is live and in-person. Featuring a fresh lineup of Brooklyn’s biggest musical comedians and character performers, Jinx is a showcase that celebrates new and innovative comedy. 
BAM to Screen New Restoration of Ang Lee's PUSHING HANDS, April 1—7
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2022
Ripe for rediscovery, Pushing Hands (1991) is the debut film from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, and the first in his informal trilogy of films—including Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet—focused on family. From April 1—7 BAM presents a theatrical run of a new restoration of Lee's undersung comedic-drama about family, immigration, and assimilation.
CAROL & MART is Back at The BellHouse
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2022
After nearly a 2-year hiatus Carol & Mart is...wait for it...back! And at The BellHouse no less! This Brooklyn-born variety show features the musical stylings of Marty Miller and Caroline Portu as they take us through the unfortunate nightmare that is living in your 20s.
Signature Theatre Presents World Premiere Of Samuel D. Hunter's A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2022
Signature Theatre presents the world premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God, April 12–May 15, concluding the organization's 30th Anniversary season with the launch of Hunter's Residency 5 at Signature.
Agnes Borinsky's A SONG OF SONGS Extended At El Puente's Williamsburg Leadership Center
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2022
The Bushwick Starr is partnering with Jeremy O. Harris, El Puente, and Clubbed Thumb to present A Song of Songs by Agnes Borinsky (Weird Classrooms at University Settlement, Of Government with Clubbed Thumb), and directed by Machel Ross (Jeremy O. Harris’ Black Exhibition at The Bushwick Starr, Ars Nova 2022 Vision Resident and 2020 Sundance Theater Lab fellow). 
Virtuoso Violinist L. Shankar Comes To Roulette Next Month
by BWW News Desk - March 15, 2022
Robert Browning Associates, Lotus Music & Dance, and Roulette present virtuoso violinist returns to New York L. SHANKAR with ABHIJIT BANERJEE & ROHAN KRISHNAMURTHY in INDIAN MASTERS on Saturday April 2, 2022 at 8:00 PM. The event takes place at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue at 3rd Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn.
The Green-Wood Cemetery Announces Spring and Summer Programming
by BWW News Desk - March 15, 2022
Spring is just around the corner and Green-Wood has planned a plethora of programs—from Concerts in the Catacombs to fascinating history tours—throughout the season. Much more than a cemetery, Green-Wood is constantly transforming the urban green space to serve as a unique venue for a wide-range of fascinating programs.
The Makers' Ensemble to Present Four New Works
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2022
The Makers' Ensemble will presents their first-ever SHORT PLAY FEST. Produced by Founding Artistic Director Dante Green and Associate Artistic Director Camille Pileggi, four Curated Directors lead a work in progress showing of four new plays by four dynamic Emerging Playwrights.
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita: Acclaimed SUBA Trio Come To Roulette
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2022
Cuban piano virtuoso Omar Sosa and Senegalese kora (21-string harp lute) master Seckou Keita, whose collaborations brilliantly embrace jazz, Latin and African influences, celebrate the release of their second album, SUBA.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Annual MAKING BROOKLYN BLOOM Returns March 12
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2022
Making Brooklyn Bloom, BBG's annual kickoff of the spring gardening season, returns on Saturday, March 12, 2022. This year, the Garden will once again offer a fully virtual program to allow participants from Brooklyn and beyond to join in.
Vangeline Theater Announces New Gowanus Brooklyn Studio Space
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2022
The Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute announces that their new studio space at 126 10th Street, Suite 207, Brooklyn, NY 11215, is now available as a rental space for rehearsals, auditions, meetings, small classes or workshops.
Irondale is Now Seeking Submissions for 2022 ON WOMEN THEATER FESTIVAL
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2022
Irondale, Brooklyn’s leading theatrical and artistically ambitious think-tank theater ensemble, is currently seeking submissions for their fifth annual On Women Festival, July 11-31 to celebrate the lives and experiences of female-identifying artists.
The Playwrights Realm Presents Interactive Fundraiser PLAY ON WORDS
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2022
The Playwrights Realm (Founding Artistic Director, Katherine Kovner; Producing Director, Roberta Pereira) presents Play on Words, a one-night live-streamed festival of short new plays that culminates an initiative in which donors get to have a hand in writing and creating work (March 28 at 7pm ET).
Agnes Borinsky's A SONG OF SONGS to Open This Week
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2022
The Bushwick Starr is partnering with Jeremy O. Harris, El Puente, and Clubbed Thumb to present A Song of Songs by Agnes Borinsky and directed by Machel Ross.
American Opera Project to Stage LETTERS AND THE LOST VOICES OF WOMEN IN WORLD WAR I
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2022
On Monday, March 21st at 7pm CT / 8pm ET, The American Opera Project (AOP) and The National WWI Museum and Memorial will give voice to the women of WWI and explore their (many times overlooked) contributions and cultural representations during a free, livestreamed presentation. The event will feature readings of newly transcribed letters from the National WWI Museum and Memorial's archives, selections from the AOP-developed opera Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War by composer Kirsten Volness and co-librettists Susan Werbe and Kate Holland, as well as a keynote talk by Jennifer Orth-Veillon, author, scholar and curator of the WWrite Blog. The event, produced by Emitha LLC, will be moderated by award-winning journalist Kelly Kennedy, Managing Editor for The War Horse and U.S. Army veteran.  
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Announces 2022 Programming
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2022
Brooklyn Botanic Garden has announced its 2022 calendar of exhibitions, programs, and seasonal highlights. The spring bloom season at BBG, with explosions of cherry blossoms, magnolias, bluebells, and more, is one of New York City's annual outdoor highlights.
JACK Labs to Stage Saguaros, a Bilingual Play by Angélica Herrera
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2022
JACK is set to present Angélica Herrera’s Saguaros, a bilingual play set in an ICE detention center. In this bracing debut play by Colombian-American writer Angélica Herrera, five teenagers incarcerated in an ICE Detention Center navigate daily life as best as they can. On the surface everything seems fine; they make jokes, plan surprise parties, and recount fond memories, but once a big secret is revealed, everything falls apart. Alliances are broken. Blood is spilled. 
Target Margin Theater to Host Nine-Hour Theatrical Event, ONE NIGHT
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2022
The multi-Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater has announced details for One Night, a nine-hour theatrical event that concludes the company’s five-year exploration of The One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of classic Silk Road stories. 
NEVER LET GO Returns To The Brick Theater in May
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2022
This thrilling and often hilarious one-man show takes you back to the Ship of Dreams. The show distills the three-plus hour epic and packs it into just one hour — a surprisingly subversive punch for a project whose source is a 90s Blockbuster film, created by one of Hollywood's most notorious directors.
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Announces Spring Events Lineup
by BWW News Desk - March 01, 2022
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership today announced the spring lineup of its annual event series, “Downtown Brooklyn Presents,” which celebrates the people and the places of one of the nation’s fastest growing downtowns.
Loading Dock Theatre's WAR DREAMER Runs March 18-April 3 in Downtown Brooklyn
by BWW News Desk - February 24, 2022
An original, immersive “dark noise” and “doom electronics” sound design permeates the Loading Dock Theater workshop production of War Dreamer, a new psychological horror play following a female solider re-integrating into society after multiple tours in Iraq.

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