Brooklyn

Have You Dreamed Of Being A DIVA? Here’s Your Shot!

by Karen Tortora-Lee November 29, 2010 Brooklyn

Come to DIVA SEARCH! What is DIVA SEARCH?  It’s open mike opera karaoke!   And I say it’s about time! On Thursday December 2, break out your inner diva and join Morningside Opera for an evening of music and revelry. Besides an opera karoake contest starring YOU, the party will also feature burlesque performances by Medianoche, [...]

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That’s Quite A Story – The Tragic Story Of Doctor Frankenstein

by Karen Tortora-Lee November 8, 2010 Brooklyn

There is a very good reason why some stories are told under the cover of darkness – hidden from the world and everything that takes place during the mundane trivialities of the day.  Because some stories aren’t meant for the daylight.  Only a blanket of blackest night will give some words that extra visceral thrill, [...]

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The Halloween Plays – Three Bursts Of Fire, Fear And Fantasy

by Karen Tortora-Lee October 30, 2010 Brooklyn

“How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, the means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.” – Marquis de Sade Company XIV has joined up with [...]

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Austin McCormick – Dancing Through Life

by Karen Tortora-Lee October 17, 2010 Brooklyn

I can count on one hand the men whose talent leave me dazzled – and while they all strike a chord for different reasons they all  have one thing in common: the ability to amaze me in a way that I’ve never experienced before.  Like the first time I heard a Sondheim phrase and had [...]

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Meet Ruth Gruber – Ahead Of Time

by Karen Tortora-Lee September 29, 2010 Brooklyn

AHEAD OF TIME Ruth Gruber didn’t just report the news. She made it. See the trailer: New York Times Arts & Leisure Article on the Film Jewish Journal Interview with Ruth Gruber **** Brooklyn Heights Cinema 70 Henry Street Brooklyn NY 11201 brooklynheightscinema.com Related Posts:Review of ‘Chloe’

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There’s Only One Channel – Channel One (Clown Festival)

by Karen Tortora-Lee September 23, 2010 Brooklyn

Remember the days before DVR and instant streaming NetFlix when, if you wanted to watch TV you sorta had to watch whatever was on?  Yeah . . . good times. An afternoon of  TV was an eclectic mixed bag of cooking shows, public access chat fests and random syndicated sitcoms. Now imagine that it’s the [...]

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Hula Hell Is Miss Saturn – The Whirling Dervish Of Fun (Clown Festival)

by Karen Tortora-Lee September 17, 2010 Brooklyn

Hula Hell Is Miss Saturn? you ask?  Or, to rephrase a bit . . . Who The Hell Is Miss Saturn? you ask? That’s me giving you an assist on how to parse the title, since (quite frankly) until Miss Saturn herself shouted it from backstage it wasn’t quite as punny to my ear. That’s [...]

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Another Universe Is Just A Click Away: Meet Mardi-Ellen Hill – Multi-Media MENDtm Maven

by Karen Tortora-Lee July 21, 2010 Books

In a time when full immersion is the key to any good entertainment experience Mardi-Ellen Hill has managed to create a multi media-universe that allows the participant to be drawn into a world of her creation through any number of doors.  Choose your favorite: book, game, music, and let the hidden mystery that is the [...]

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Play Me I’m Yours (Sing For Hope)

by Antonio Miniño June 30, 2010 Art

The other day I was walking by myself, minding my own business down Riverside Park, trying to have some me time with . . . well . . . me, and I noticed these pianos just lying there unattended. So I snapped a shot and did some snooping around, and found out about a fantastic [...]

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Winners All Around – The Paper Plane Derby

by Karen Tortora-Lee June 15, 2010 Art

By all accounts the Come Out and Play festival was a huge success.  And we’re pleased to say that The Paper Plane Derby (featured earlier on THM) was winner of the Best Family Game!  CONGRATULATIONS! Our very own Stephen Tortora-Lee was an eager participant in the derby and wound up bringing home “Most Innovative Design”; his [...]

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Paper Planes – The Only Way To Fly!

by Karen Tortora-Lee June 4, 2010 Art

Tell me the truth . . . Paper Airplanes – Origami for Americans or just a clever way to send the math test answers across the room? America’s favorite paper company, Dunder Mifflin, used the Paper Airplane in the director’s cut of their paper commercial, and everyone’s favorite engineer – Dilbert – has one in [...]

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Not Your Father’s Circus: Le Cirque Feerique (The Fairy Circus)

by Karen Tortora-Lee May 13, 2010 Brooklyn

Can you die from too much beauty?  Probably not.  But if you could, I came close to doing so as I watched Company XIV “A mixed media Neo-Baroque dance-theatre  company” spin  Le Cirque Féerique (The Fairy Circus) into being in front of my dazzled eyes last weekend.  The show consists of a series of fairy tales [...]

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Entrevista: Jody Christopherson – Trying

by Antonio Miniño April 7, 2010 Brooklyn

If you don’t believe read-heads have more fun, just ask Jody Christopherson about her experience working on Erin Browne’s new play TRYING, premiering at The Bushwick Starr, on April 15th. Ok, I admit  the “red-head” line is not the most original way to start an interview, but I’m not fishing for a bloggie award and [...]

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Antonio’s Guide To April

by Antonio Miniño April 1, 2010 Art

It’s creeping up, you can tell by the rainy days and not-so-freezing weather. There’s also that mixed fashion I so love in Spring and the month of April; half the population is braving the still somewhat crisp temperatures and taking off the layers and boots, while the other is still hiding behind the winter parkas [...]

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“Last Life” Gets In Two More Shots

by Karen Tortora-Lee December 21, 2009 Brooklyn

So excited to report that if you didn’t get a chance to see Last Life you now have 2 more chances since the show has been extended! Make sure to get to one of the last 2 performances of this outrageous, strange, wonderful show! Last Life Presented by Big Time Action Theatre Fight Directed by [...]

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The Things That Defy Gravity In The Best Show 99.9% Of America Missed. The Swedish Circus In Brooklyn! “Cirkus Cirkor: Inside Out.”

by Jason Liszkiewicz December 20, 2009 Brooklyn

On November 14, 2009 I went with friends to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (music & much more) to see the Swedish circus troop Cirkus Cirkor perform their show, “Inside: Out.” Their shows at BAM were the first in the United States; then – in a flash – they went back to Sweden. When the [...]

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Fight Fest: Wham, Bam, Thank You “Last Life”

by Karen Tortora-Lee December 18, 2009 Brooklyn

I’ve been a fan of Eric Sanders’ ever since I interviewed him last year and then reviewed his staging of the classic horror story The Wendigo.  And while that first show certainly gave me a taste for how great his talents are, I was very excited about getting the chance to see Last Life – [...]

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