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In Context: A Gun Show
Sō Percussion’s gives the Second Amendment a soundtrack in this affecting foray into America’s fraught relationship with guns, directed by Obie-winning director Ain Gordon. Context is everything, so...
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In Context: 50 Song Memoir
Stephin Merritt and his seven-member band celebrate his 50th birthday with two distinct programs of new songs, one for every year of his melodious existence. Context is everything, so get even closer...
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CITIZEN—Being and Belonging
Raja Kelly. Photo courtesy Reggie Wilson/Fist & HeelBy Christian BarclayIn 1936 Josephine Baker, then already a major star in Europe, returned to America to star in the Ziegfield Follies. The...
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Two Greens, Unrelated
Photo: Gayle LairdKnown separately for singular performances combining cinema with live musical accompaniment and narration, self-taught animator Brent Green and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam...
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In Context: The Winter’s Tale
Director Declan Donnellan and Cheek by Jowl take up Shakespeare’s most fundamental questions in this fiercely contemporary staging of the Bard’s late masterpiece of wit and wisdom. Context is...
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In Context: Brent Green & Sam Green: Live Cinema
A showcase of work by animator Brent Green and documentarian Sam Green, this live video event features foley sound by artist Kate Ryan, live narration by the filmmakers, and music by Brendan Canty...
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In Context: The Hard Nut
Photo: Julieta CervantesMark Morris Dance Group’s beloved reimagining of The Nutcracker—a lavish, gender-bent love letter that playfully preserves the warm spirit of an essential holiday...
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CITIZEN—A Note from Reggie Wilson
Choreographer Reggie Wilson (Moses(es), 2013 Next Wave; The Good Dance - dakar/brooklyn, 2009 Next Wave) returns to BAM next week with CITIZEN—a brand new work inspired by African-American figures...
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Holiday Party Tips from Mrs. Stahlbaum
Photo: Julieta CervantesStruggling to kindle that seasonal spark? Desperate to spice up your hum-drum holiday? Never fear, Mrs. Stahlbaum is here with enough flair and Christmas-tree flocking to...
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In Context: CITIZEN
Choreographer Reggie Wilson returns to BAM with a brand new work inspired by African-American figures throughout history who chose not to leave their home country in spite of pervasive racism. CITIZEN...
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In Context: Amplified
The Dublin Guitar Quartet and composer Michael Gordon redefine what the guitar can be as an ensemble instrument. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection...
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Watery Magic Onstage
Lothar Odinius and Olga Peretyatko in The Nightingale and Other Short Fables. Photo: Jack VartoogianBy David HsiehL’Amour de Loin, the first opera by a female composer presented on the Metropolitan...
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via GIPHY2016 has been an exhausting year for all of us, but we still have hope. Here's to you, our audiences, for remaining so inquisitive, engaged, and adventurous through it all. To express our...
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Savage Beauty
Marty Rea and Aisling O'Sullivan. Photo: Aaron MonaghanBy Brian Scott Lipton I was recently in a restaurant where a baby shower was taking place, the young mother-to-be beaming at the center of a table...
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In Context: The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Ireland’s esteemed theater company Druid makes its BAM debut with this 20th anniversary revival of Martin McDonagh’s Tony Award-winning pitch-black comedy abd the first in a trilogy of plays set in the...
View ArticleIconic Artist Talk: Declan Donnellan
On Wednesday, December 7, co-founder and joint artistic director of Cheek by Jowl Declan Donnellan joined Shakespeare scholar and Columbia professor James Shapiro for a conversation that reflected on...
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Hope, Unwavering
New York Fellowship Choir, 2016. Photo: Elena OlivoBy David HsiehThere are years of triumphs and years of setbacks. There are years of prosperity and years of reckoning. There are years when the...
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Frederick Douglass at BAM
By 1860, Brooklyn had become the third largest city in America. As a thriving port city with significant trades in sugar, tobacco, and cotton, but also the location of Weeksville, one of the earliest...
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Martin McDonagh Weighs In
Illustrator Nathan Gelgud explores Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's thoughts on theater, music, literature, and more, drawing from interviews in BOMB, The Irish Times, The New Yorker, and The...
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A Very Leenane Glossary
There’s some terminology in The Beauty Queen of Leenane that might sound a bit, well, foreign to your U.S. American ears. But fear not! We’ve compiled a list of vocabulary to help you navigate...
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