The National to Curate a Music Festival for BAM: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
A music festival grows in Brooklyn! Read More
Brooklyn Academy of Music
The End of an Era: a James Levine-less Met Will Still Open With a Triumphant Anna Bolena
James Levine will not be conducting at the Metropolitan Opera this fall. There is no fall season at the New York City Opera. It is the end of an era for an art form and a city.
Mr. Levine, who has suffered yet another setback in a long series of health problems, retains the title of music director, but there is now little doubt that his period of leadership is over. Read More
‘Final Fantasy’ Concert Coming to Brooklyn
Things we learned today: The hugely popular Final Fantasy games have their own concert series!
Distant Worlds: Music From FINAL FANTASY will make its New York premiere in April at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The concert features an orchestra and soloists included Susan Calloway, who recorded vocals for Final Fantasy XIV. The concert is Read More
Yoko Ono Shimmies, Shakes and Shines with Clapton, Midler, Simon, and Sons
"I have to tell you," Yoko Ono said to her audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night, a few days before her 77th birthday, "you have a long life ahead of you, and it’s going to be beautiful." Her Brooklyn Academy of Music show--half concert, half tribute--was filled with all kinds Read More
Broadway Producer Flirts With Blanchett
This takes care of one obstacle: Stephen C. Byrd, the Broadway producer with the rights to stage Streetcar, has told The Times that he wants to help transfer the Cate Blanchett BAM production to Broadway.
He hasn't seen it yet, but he hears good things:
“From what I’ve heard, it’s fabulous, and I plan to Read More
Broadway Can’t Have Cate Blanchett
The New York Times today dissects the possiblity of an extremely successful Australian production of A Streetcar Named Desire, currently playing at BAM, moving to Broadway.
That possibility appears small. In an "active but brutal" season where celebrity appearances have proved key to success, the buzzy Blanchett Streetcar would seem like Read More
Make Way for Mamet the Didact!
David Mamet's new play is here! The play that was to be Mamet, back in classic Mamet form! With a plot so incendiary that nothing about it could be revealed before performances started! With its poster and Playbill cover featuring only a simple, sexy shot of a shapely black woman's legs in a slinky, red-sequined Read More
Hot Tickets: M. Ward, Sounds Like Brooklyn, BAM’s Next Wave
It may be a cliché to say this these days, but music is Brooklyn’s biggest and best export. If you’re favorite band isn’t from Chicago or Austin, it’s probably from Kings County. All of which makes the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual Sounds Like Brooklyn festival (formerly Brooklyn Next), which highlights “some of the Read More
B.A.M. Brings Sundance to Brooklyn
For the third year in a row, the Sundance Institute has packed up its bags after Park City, Utah's January film festival and brought the show to Brooklyn!
They condensed the dizzying number of selections the official festival down to 22 features and 36 shorts to show at an 11-day program starting this Thursday, Read More
Brooklyn, the Borough: The Art of Brooklyn
What do Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz and Keith Haring all have in common? Each artist has work up for sale at the 4th Annual Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM to us locals) Silent Auction.BAM certainly plays an integral part in the Brooklyn art scene, and the auction, which raises money for BAM's various Read More
A Long Road From Georgia to BAM
Roads paved with good intentions don’t always lead to Hell—often they go straight to BAM. So it is with the recently refurbished State Ballet of Georgia, now under the leadership of the internationally famous ballerina Nina Ananiashvili, originally from the Bolshoi and a favorite here in New York from her 15 years as an occasional Read More
Brooklyn, The Borough: Roll Over, Manhattan!
The National Goes … National! Giddy Guitarist Can’t Believe It
>> The National, Feb. 22-23, Brooklyn Academy of Music (sold out)
"No way! A 2,500 seat theater!" said The National’s Bryce Dessner, sounding more like one his band’s teenage fans than a well-traveled 34-year-old guitarist. He was calling from Ditmas Park—a few neighborhoods south of the Brooklyn Academy of Music where his brooding hometown band Read More
Patrick Stewart Positioned for a Tony if Macbeth Comes to Broadway?
Something Star Trek this way comes! It’s the Brooklyn Academy of Music's massive production of Macbeth, starring the man most well known as Cap. Jean-Luc Picard, Mr. Patrick Stewart, who, as the New York Post’s Michael Riedel conjectures, may be on his way to a Tony. Follow the logic: The money's in place. Read More
Joanna Newsom Glistens at BAM, Loves Obama
The hummingbird-voiced harpist Joanna Newsom played the first of two shows with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM last night, and it wasn’t cutesy or quirky or kitschy.
It was glorious.
But four years ago, when she was 22 years and two months old, Ms. Newsom’s debut, The Milk Eyed Mender, an album of squeaky Read More
