Brian Brooks News

By bringing everyone into Jeff's mounting obsession through strategic revealing of his neighbors' various dilemmas, the audience is able to experience Jeff's increasing anxiety and feelings of helplessness and claustrophobia as events unfold.

The 17th annual edition of the spectacular Fire Island Dance Festival raised a record-breaking $340,445, surpassing the previous record by more than $23,000. Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most anticipated cultural event of the season at Fire Island Pines, was presented July 15-17 and is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The 17th annual edition of the spectacular Fire Island Dance Festival raised a record-breaking $340,445, surpassing the previous record by more than $23,000. Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most anticipated cultural event of the season at Fire Island Pines, was presented July 15-17 and is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The Chicago Dancing Festival, co-produced by internationally renowned choreographer and Chicago native Lar Lubovitch and highly esteemed Chicago dancer Jay Franke, celebrates its 5th Anniversary season with expanded programming to include five days of free dance-related events, in venues throughout downtown Chicago, August 23 - 27, 2011.

Ten emerging and world-renowned dancers, dance companies and choreographers will join two-time Tony Award-winner and celebrated dancer Bebe Neuwirth at Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most anticipated cultural event of the season at Fire Island Pines. Scheduled for July 16-17, this outdoor celebration of dance is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

After the overwhelming success of last summer's presentation, the Gotham Arts Exchange returned to The Joyce Theater with the Gotham Dance Festival. Running through June 12, the Gotham Dance Festival presented six programs featuring ten choreographers - a who's who of North American modern dance, per say. The festival included the works of Brian Brooks, Monica Bill Barnes and Patrick Corbin to name a few. I had the honor of checking out the "Summer Sampler Matinee" on June 11. This particular program focused specifically on emerging choreographers. On the 11th, I saw the works of Ashleigh Leite, Julian Barnett and Sydney Skybetter.

BroadwayWorld.com has learned that two-time Tony Award-winner Bebe Neuwirth will host Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most-anticipated cultural event of the Fire Island season as Dancers Responding to AIDS welcomes the country's most exhilarating dance companies.

Filled with blackmail, double cross, and murder...Cliffhanger is a modern morality play that puts our ideals of right and wrong to the ultimate test.

Fresh off the overwhelming success of last summer's presentation of four female choreographers, Gotham Arts Exchange presents the Gotham Dance Festival, returning to The Joyce Theater with expanded programming and a newly branded festival.

The Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N. Broadway in downtown Nyack, continues The Year of Edward Hopper celebrations with the opening of the exhibition, Hopper Re-Imagined on Sunday, April 3 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. This exhibition, which runs through May 8th, showcases Edward Hopper ‘s work uniquely interpreted or 're-imagined' in this multi-media group show, which includes works by artists Teresa Berasi, Brian Brooks, Lizzy Denning, Karen Finley, Randy Ford, James Fuhrman, Wally Glick, Shalom Gorewitz, Holly Harrison, Jim Holland, Andrea Kantrowitz, Lovid, Vik Muniz, Mica Pillemer, Andrea Placer, Natasha Rabin, Katherine Ramos, David Wells Roth, Paul Schulenburg, Barbara Scullin, Glynis Sweeny, Richard Tu and Eric Thompson.

'A Soldier's Play' is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers and assigns no simple blame.

Gotham Arts Exchange, in association with the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU, presents the fifth annual presentation of DANCE GOTHAM on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 7pm at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC.

Gotham Arts Exchange, in association with the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU, presents the fifth annual presentation of DANCE GOTHAM on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 7pm at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC.

Gotham Arts Exchange, in association with the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU, presents the fifth annual presentation of DANCE GOTHAM on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 7pm at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC.

Audiences will have the opportunity to see a full spectrum of dance companies, local and international, on The Joyce Theater stage during its 2011 spring / summer season.

Marking its 40th anniversary, Lincoln Center Out of Doors continues its schedule of FREE performances on the plazas of Lincoln Center through August 15.

Marking its 40th anniversary, Lincoln Center Out of Doors continues its schedule of FREE performances on the plazas of Lincoln Center through August 15.

Lincoln Center Out of Doors (LCOOD) will present three weeks of FREE music and dance on the plazas of Lincoln Center from July 28 to August 15 in the 40th annual edition of the popular outdoor summer festival.

Lincoln Center Out of Doors (LCOOD) will present three weeks of FREE music and dance on the plazas of Lincoln Center from July 28 to August 15 in the 40th annual edition of the popular outdoor summer festival.

New York's sexiest revue, EROTIC BROADWAY - Vintage Variety, will welcome Radio City Rockette Rachel Borgman, Andrew Fitch, Lynette Toomey, and Wicked's Jessica Walter for the May 27th show at 9:30PM.