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Brooklyn Academy Of Music

  1. opera review
    An Epic Set in Xenophobic Limbo: Huang Ruo’s Angel IslandFrom the walls of an immigrant detention cell to the opera stage.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. theater review
    Lorraine Hansberry on Hashtag Activism: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s WindowOscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in her play about fashionable commitment to social change.
    By Jackson McHenry
  3. theater
    Lorraine Hansberry Saw It ComingHer nearly forgotten play The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window resurfaces at BAM, now with Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. adaptations
    ‘People Go Out, Come Back, Because It’s Too Much’Ivo van Hove’s staging of A Little Life immerses audience members in its main character’s suffering.
    By Jason P. Frank
  5. comedy review
    Hannah Gadsby Stays Sunny by Any Means NecessaryIn Body of Work, the comedian shares her biggest lesson from fame: Give ’em a little less.
    By Helen Shaw
  6. theater review
    No Nose, Yes Delts: James McAvoy Is Our Generation’s Great CyranoYou will not (and I cannot) get over this performance.
    By Helen Shaw
  7. life in pictures
    Sexy CyranoBehind the scenes at BAM with James McAvoy as he brings a smoldering version of de Bergerac Stateside.
    Photographs by Pari Dukovic
  8. theater review
    The Wildly Different Altered States of The Mood Room and CandlelightIf The Mood Room is some extremely mellow weed, then Candlelight is a tab of acid, given to you right before a job interview.
    By Helen Shaw
  9. opera review
    Review: In Sun & Sea, Econihilism Goes to the BeachIt’s all fun and games till someone loses a climate.
    By Helen Shaw
  10. opera
    Singing Their Angst From Their Beach TowelsAt BAM, the cast of the voyeuristic beach opera Sun & Sea performs from an indoor, sand-covered stage.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. theater review
    Theater Review: Alas, Poor HamnetShakespeare’s son, who died at 11, now has a smartphone.
    By Helen Shaw
  12. theater review
    Theater Review: What If They Went to Moscow?, Where Stage and Screen MeldThe Man With a Movie Camera would’ve been astonished.
    By Helen Shaw
  13. theater review
    Theater Review: A Heavyweight Long Day’s Journey Into NightWith Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville.
    By Sara Holdren
  14. theater review
    Theater Review: Anthony Sher as a Slow-Burning, Intense King Lear“Sher is most fascinating to watch in the nooks and crannies.”
    By Sara Holdren
  15. opera review
    Three Unconventional Operas, Three Degrees of SuccessCrossing, My Lai, and Blank Out all work the dynamic edge of what an opera can be.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. gallery
    Pina Bausch’s Wild, Iconic Dances Are Coming Back to BrooklynTwo of her best pieces are showing at BAM next month.
    By Sarah Spellings
  17. Theater Review: BAM’s Bang-up Revival of The Beauty Queen of LeenaneIre in Eire.
    By Jesse Green
  18. theater review
    Theater Review: Brook’s Battlefield in BrooklynAvant-garde that doesn’t feel wrung-out.
    By Jesse Green
  19. theater review
    Theater Review: 13 Hours of Shakespeare’s Henrys, in Brooklyn“Something marvelous of each for everyone, and then sometimes too much.”
    By Jesse Green
  20. theater review
    Theater Review: AntigoneJuliette Binoche and a whole lot of aestheticizing.
    By Jesse Green
  21. theater
    Theater Review: A Human Being Died That NightA South African torturer’s own words, staged.
    By Jesse Green
  22. Mexico’s Cult of Morrissey Comes to BrooklynMexrrissey arrives at BAM — and into the mainstream. 
    By Bryan Hood
  23. opera
    Opera Review: At BAM, a Semele Like No OtherA bizarre reimagining that, somehow, works.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. theater
    Theater Review: An Uncut, Uncompromising The Iceman ComethNearly five hours of power.
    By Jesse Green
  25. Hearing Gabriel Kahane’s Version of Los Angeles, Onstage at BAMA review of The Ambassador onstage.
    By Justin Davidson
  26. Theater Review: Shakespeare’s Sonnets Turns SourestRobert Wilson’s rear-avant-garde.
    By Jesse Green
  27. stage dive
    Theater Review: A Doll’s House, Blessedly Un-Reinvented“Neither the director nor time itself has diminished the effectiveness.”
    By Jesse Green
  28. opera review
    Opera Review: An Uplifting Billy Budd at BAM“As if Britten had cast a spell on the physical world and turned it into a topography of sound.”
    By Justin Davidson
  29. Theater Review: Kissing the Hand of Frank Langella, in King LearIt snaps into focus whenever he’s onstage.
    By Jesse Green
  30. classical music review
    Davidson: Anna Nicole the Opera Is a Big Bust“The American idioms appear to have sprung from a phrase book edited on another planet.”
    By Justin Davidson
  31. stage dive
    Theater Review: The Master Builder, on Very Shaky New Pilings“When The Master Builder becomes an episode of Gilly, you know something’s wrong.”
    By Jesse Green
  32. FYI
    Did Roberta’s Inspire Baz Luhrmann to Do a Food Movie?He loves Roberta’s! He loves Brooklyn! He gets cagey when we mention a food movie!
    By Jada Yuan
  33. news reel
    UPDATE: Senator Charles Schumer in Hot Water With Local Arts OrganizationsNo one seems happy that the stimulus package all but ignored the arts.
    By Erica Orden
  34. Neighborhood Watch
    Fort Greene Restaurant Scene’s Crescendo; De Niro Hotel So Close You Can Book ItAstoria: The Southwest restaurant that’s been under construction near the Ditmars stop on 31st Street is named Mojave and opens tonight. [Joey in Astoria via Astorians] East Village: The Mermaid Inn reopens tomorrow after a one-week renovation, which may have been inspired by Time Out‘s mouse sightings. [Eater] Fort Greene: New restaurants the Smoke Joint and 67 Burger have joined older favorites like iCi and Thomas Beisl to build a thriving restaurant scene near the Brooklyn Academy of Music. [NYT] Tribeca: De Niro’s Greenwich Hotel is now taking reservations for the spring. [NewYorkology via Eater]
  35. the industry
    Can ‘The Women’ Finally Make it to the Screen?