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BAM DISTRICT: Theater for a New Audience builds its dream house (without renderings!)

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Published May 27, 2010 at 3:19 p.m.

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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Stephen Brown ... The Brooklyn Paper ... A renowned — but itinerant — Shakespeare company will soon have a permanent home across the street from the Brooklyn Academy of Music where the poor players can strut and fret their hour upon the stage ... A towering swath of vines will be the most striking feature of the new home for The Theater for a New Audience, a company that specializes in plays by the Bard of Avon

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Marching, dancing, BBQ on Memorial Day menu

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Published May 27, 2010 at 6:15 p.m.

From Bam's annual African celebration to the nation's oldest Memorial Day parade, Brooklyn is bursting with activities this holiday weekend ...

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MUSIC: Get ‘Hook’ed at annual South Brooklyn music fest this weekend

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Published May 31, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Meredith Deliso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Experience Red Hook from front to back this month ... The 17th annual Red Hook Fest brings music and dance to South Brooklyn — from Coffey Park to the pier ... “We’re bringing world-class professional artists to Red Hook who might not come here otherwise, people you might see at BAM for $50,” said Jon Mayer of Dance Theater Etcetera, which produces the free festival on June 4 and 5 ... On the music end

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Memorial Day Events in Brooklyn

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Published May 30, 2010 at 4:02 p.m.

Thousands of sailors from Navy and Coast Guard ships are in town for Fleet Week 2010 and the Memorial Day weekend , and hundreds of them are headed for Brooklyn. ... The sailors visiting Brooklyn Borough Hall (shown above) are from the USS Iwo Jima. ... Want to catch some Brooklyn Memorial Day events yourself? Here's a roundup of some of Monday's highlights: ... - The country's oldest Memorial Day Parade takes place in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The parade starts at 11 a.m. on 87th Street

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HIM

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Published May 4, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

For sure Finland's number-one goth-metal group, HIM have been threatening an American breakthrough for nearly seven years, ever since Bam Margera began bigging-up the band on MTV ... Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice , their rather baroquely titled new one, may finally do the trick—it ...

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Strindberg's Painfully Modern Creditors at BAM

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Published April 27, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

In 1888, August Strindberg wrote a letter to his publishers, urging them to circulate his new play. " Creditors is modern right through," he said. "Humane, loveable, all of its characters sympathetic." As the current revival at BAM, on loan from London's Donmar Warehouse, ably demonstrates, ...

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THE BUTCHER OF FLATBUSH AVE. EXTENSION: Deserving its ‘Creditors’! BAM’s Strindberg revival is a solid gold hit

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Published April 22, 2010 at 11:15 p.m.

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Revenge is rarely as gripping, vicious and, yes, fun, as it is on stage at the BAM Harvey in August Strindberg’s “Creditors” — a thoroughly modern take on the battle of the sexes ... Though written in 1888 by, let’s face it, the sometimes-insane Swedish Modernist, “Creditors” retains its freshness and insight into male-female relations that must have been shocking more than a century ago ... There’s no fat in this

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Caruso museum founder, curator and torch-bearer seeks new home

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Published April 20, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Shavana Abruzzo ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Inside a modest brick row-house in Homecrest lies North America’s only museum dedicated to one of the greatest tenors who ever lived, and the only inkling that it exists is an engraved sign outside the door welcomes visitors to the “Enrico Caruso Museum.” ... The Italian singer’s costumes, busts, letters, and even the knife and fork with which he ate, are among the nearly 15,000 items of Carusania

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Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM

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Published Feb. 22, 2010 at 2:34 p.m.

The dance group will show a slew of Morris' dance works, including the premiere of "Socrates," "Behemoth" (which is completely silent) and the New York premeire of "Looky." Tickets are $20-$70. Call 718-636-4100 or visit www.bam.org for more details ...

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Architectural Images Released of Brooklyn’s Old Strand Theater Renovation, Expansion

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Published Feb. 11, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Designer Leeser Architecture Based in DUMBO ... FORT GREENE — The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has obtained images of the Strand Theater renovation, one of several projects in the BAM Cultural District scheduled to begin construction in 2010 ... (Please see Dennis Holt’s article, “Curtain Will Soon Rise on Brooklyn Cultural District,” in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Wednesday, Feb. 10, or in the Brooklyn Eagle on Thursday, Feb. 11.) ... Leeser Architecture, a firm that specializes in the design

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