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axes herbs and satchele maternal mortality play

Arts & Entertainment

“axes, herbs, and satchels: open the archives” connects Black maternal mortality crisis with the erased history of Black midwives

By Gabriele Holtermann

new york city fringe festival performance

DUMBO

New York City Fringe Festival expands to Brooklyn as four new shows debut in Dumbo

By Kirstyn Brendlen

secret's out at brooklyn comedy collective

‘Secret’s Out’: Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s improvised musical reveals hidden truths

By Carrene Gepilano

because solidarity storytelling show

Prospect-Lefferts Gardens

‘Because, Solidarity’ fosters community resistance through storytelling at Gallery Particulier

By Lauren Rapp

bay ridge musical couple

Bay Ridge

‘Hopelessly Devoted’ Bay Ridge couple brought together by musicals chase their dreams together

By Kirstyn Brendlen

to protect serve and understand police program at the irondale

‘To Protect, Serve, and Understand’: The Irondale marks 10 years of landmark program connecting police and the public

By Kirstyn Brendlen

fish queen of the gowanus canal

Gowanus

‘The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal’ explores love, history and waste in floating production

By Kirstyn Brendlen

Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM show

Arts & Entertainment

Brooklyn Academy of Music announces new artistic director and experimental fall programming

By Jada Camille

ribbon cutting tom kane theater

BrooklynONE Productions cuts ribbon on Tom Kane Theatre, paying tribute to late co-founder in new Industry City space

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil

Performers are taking the Coney Island USA's stage for a three-day run of "Ritual Cabaret Art Brothel".

Arts & Entertainment

Show me how you burlesque! Coney Island performers offer immersive theater experience

By Jada Camille

woman on stage in remember this trick

‘Remember This Trick’ explores antisemitism, complex history, and tales of Jewish survival at the Target Margin Theater

By Kirstyn Brendlen

woman on stage in leni's last lament

Arts & Entertainment

Propagandist filmmaker faces ‘purgatory of her own making’ in ‘Leni’s Last Lament’ at the Invisible Dog Art Center

By Melissa Fishman

williamsburg theater

Williamsburg project will adapt historic theater into apartments, keep striking exterior

By Anna Bradley-Smith

River watchers play in newtown creek greenpoint

Greenpoint

‘River Watchers’ takes audiences onto the Newtown Creek and into the future

By Ximena Del Cerro

orca whale

Red Hook

A whale of a time: ‘Orca: A One-Whale Musical’ to debut at Waterfront Museum

By Isabel Song Beer

musicians at little venue that could winner venue

Arts & Entertainment

‘The Little Venue That Could’: Brooklyn theaters win $10k grants to help keep indie theater alive

By Melissa Fishman

Bomba and the Coquí poster

Park Slope

Puerto Rican musical ‘Bomba and the Coquí’ to open Piper Theatre’s summer season in Park Slope

By Ximena Del Cerro

rendering of exterior brooklyn art haus

Local artists join forces to open new performance and arts space, the Brooklyn Art Haus, in Williamsburg

By Kirstyn Brendlen

man reads with mari lwyd horse skull puppet

Arts & Entertainment

A war of wits: ‘The Mari Lwyd,’ an immersive theatrical bar crawl, debuts at Industry City

By Kirstyn Brendlen

Kathleen Turner in a theater

Arts & Entertainment

Actress Kathleen Turner dives deep in Brooklyn for one night only in ‘Finding My Voice’ on Nov. 5

By Ximena Del Cerro

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