By Foster Kamer 2/29/12 4:48pm

'BROOKLYN ROCK'

CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY

Lineup for Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, BAM Music Festival Curated by The National, Announced

In January, the Brooklyn Academy of Music announced that they’d be hosting a three-day music festival, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (named for the Walt Whitman poem) curated by the Bryce Dessner and Aaron Dessner of Brooklyn-based “indie” megagroup The National. Today, they announced the lineup. Surprisingly, no performance by The National! But a bunch of other bands—quite a few from Brooklyn, of course—will be there.

Those bands are: Read More

By Zachary Woolfe 9/15/11 12:42pm

fall arts preview

Anna Netrebko as Anna Bolena

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

By Jesse Oxfeld 12/09/09 1:15am

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

By Gillian Reagan 5/27/08 2:19pm

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 Read More