The 25-year-old Thelma Hill Performing
Arts Center, headquartered at 30 Third Ave. in the Brooklyn YWCA,
begins another season of staging new dance works on Saturday
at Long Island University’s Triangle Theatre.
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By Paulanne Simmons
When a local theater company manages to
produce a show that attracts big enough audiences to warrant
an extended run, it should be a cause for celebration. It certainly
leads to high expectations.
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By Leah Reisman
Growing Down in Brooklyn," which plays
at the Lower East Side Film & Video Festival this Saturday,
at first glance appears to be another entry in the overburdened
genre of mobster movies; a genre, which I admit, is not my favorite.
Too many of the films that fall into this category require viewers
to simply accept the excessive violence they depict as a part
of the culture, a certain way of life.
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By Susan Rosenthal
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: New exhibit "Leon
Golub: Paintings 1950-2000" on display through Aug. 19.
Also, major reinstallation of some 250 works from the museum’s
holdings
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By Kevin Filipski
When the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble’s
Second Helpings Series concludes its 2000-2001 season at Manhattan’s
Dia Center for the Arts on June 2, it’ll be with "Crosstown
New York," a concert of works by composers with a relationship
to New York City.
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By Paulanne Simmons
"Only four out of seven plays on Broadway
last year were new. We are playwright poor in this country. We
need new playwrights and we need them desperately," says
Sidney Fortner, producer of the Gallery Players’ Black Box Series,
which runs from May 31 through June 24.
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