Waiting in the Wings: Big news, Shakespeare-loving Trekkies: hairless heartthrob Patrick Stewart (aka Captain Picard from “Star Trek: The Next Generation”) will take the title role in “MacBeth,” which lands at the BAM Harvey Theater on Feb. 12.  Comment.

Theater: Much like Santa himself, comic storyteller Mike Daisey is bringing Christmas cheer to Brooklyn for one night only, so you had better not pout and you’d better not cry. Here’s why. Comment.

Theater: Last week at the BAM Harvey Theater, the eponymous heroine of “Lulu” quietly flitted onto the stage, leaving me, I must confess, with raised gooseflesh on my neck. Comment.

Theater: Tan Dun will be in China, where he is the official composer of the 2008 Olympics, until the day before ‘The Gate,’ his over-the-top music-theater work, opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, but two of Brooklyn’s cultural titans are making sure the show goes off without a hitch. Comment.

Waiting in the Wings: GO’s guide to what’s new in Brooklyn theater. Comment.

Theater: To say that the stars of the latest production of “Hamlet” are dummies is not offensive. Comment.

Theater: When actor-writer Michael Buscemi was ready to stage his play “Mercury in Retrograde” for the first time, he could think of no better place than amongst a community of his friends at Park Slope’s Barbes. Comment.

Theater: It was with trepidation that I confronted “The Seagull” at Brooklyn College in Midwood. Director Mary Robinson had bravely taken the cavernous space of the Gershwin Theatre and created a theater-within-a-theater on its proscenium stage. Would Chekhov’s gloom survive in such lovable smallness? Comments (1).

Waiting in the Wings: GO’s guide to what’s new in Brooklyn theater. Comment.

Theater: David and Joseph Zellnik’s new musical, “Yank!,” now at the Gallery Players, is one of the most heartening theatrical experiences in years. This original production boldly highlights what history books have long left out — stories about being gay in the military. Comment.

Waiting in the Wings: The Seagull’ comes to Brooklyn College, and more Brooklyn theater picks Comment.

Theater: Ride Rep’s ‘Gillian’ is a great ghost story. Comments (1).

Waiting in the Wings: GO’s definitive guide to what’s next in local theater. Comment.

Theater: St. Ann’s Warehouse wanted to stage a play with buzz, but at the Oct. 7 premiere of Dutch playwright Adelheid Roosen’s “Is.Man,” the buzz wasn’t about how great the show was when the star abruptly walked off stage. Comment.

Theater: A seriously funny play comes to Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

Theater: Firebrand Dutch playwright says Bush and bin Laden are ‘mirrors.’ Comment.

Theater: Lear-ing at the Harvey Theater. Comment.

Theater: Behind the scenes at the Gallery Players. Comment.

Theater: A new musical skewers the hipster hordes of Williamsburg. Comment.

Theater: Baseball and opera together? You betcha. Comment.

Theater: All the Heights is a stage for playwright Frank Polito. Comment.

Theater: Foul-mouthed puppets take center stage at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Comment.

Theater: The Gallery Players are victorious with “Victor.” Comment.

Theater: A Brooklyn Paper article takes on a new life as a musical. Comment.

Theater: Moby-Dick takes new life in a cemetery. Comment.

Theater: Morris takes Manhattan, debuts at Metropolitan Opera. Comment.

Theater: A lamentable play lamented. Comment.

Theater: GO Brooklyn reviews the Sackett Group's production of Comment.

Theater: DUMBO real-estate mogul David Walentas is being spoofed on a neighborhood stage. Comment.

Theater: “Lost in Yonkers” found in Brooklyn. Comment.

Theater: GO Brooklyn’s guide to the boro’s bounty of Shakespeare Comment.

Theater: At Brick Theater’s new production, these Wingfields are more like wing nuts.  Comment.

Theater: ‘Little Building,’ currently up at Galapagos, tells hilarious stories Comment.

Theater: The Sackett Group takes on Sam Shepard’s ‘True West’ Comment.

Theater: Inspired by the parlor culture of the 18th and 19th century, the Brave New World Repetory Salon Series harks back to a sophisticated era where salon gatherings were the choice entertainment for a night out (or a night in, more accurately). Comment.

Theater: “It’s a tease in the best sense,” says Jonny Porkpie, one of the hosts of the Brooklyn Burlesque Blitz. “It is to me the most exciting type of performance.” Comment.

Theater: Cynthia Hopkins (pictured), who garnered widespread acclaim for her amnesia operetta “Accidental Nostalgia,” returns to DUMBO’s St. Ann’s Warehouse on Wednesday with the New York premiere of her “Accidental” prequel, “Must Don’t Whip ’Um.” Comment.