Local venues50 West Clinton Avenue, Bergenfield, NJ 07621 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666-3096 1550 Teaneck Rd., Teaneck, NJ 07666 200 Dahlia Avenue, New Milford, NJ 07646 383 Knickerbocker Road, Englewood, NJ 07631-1428 180 Washington Avenue, Dumont, NJ 07628 100 Riveredge Road, Tenafly, NJ 07670 12 Washington Street, Tenafly, NJ 07670 187 Riverside Square, Hackensack, NJ 07601 685 Elm Avenue, River Edge, NJ 07661 8 Depot Square, Englewood, NJ 07631-2809 31 Engle St, Englewood, NJ 07631 450 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, NJ 07666 840 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666 53 Union Avenue, Cresskill, NJ 07626 355 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell, NJ 07649 300 Haworth Avenue, Haworth, NJ 07641 90 Hardenburgh Avenue, Demarest, NJ 07627 274 Main Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601 East 116 Century Road, Paramus, NJ 07652 375 Larch Avenue, Bogota, NJ 07603 459 Maywood Avenue, Maywood, NJ 07607 20 Palisade Avenue, Emerson, NJ 07630 227 Fort Lee Road, Leonia, NJ 07605 280 High St., Closter, NJ 07624 151 West Passaic Street, Rochelle Park, NJ 07662 107 Cedar St, Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660 2185 Lemoine Ave, Fort Lee, NJ 07024 10 Herring Street, Harrington Park, NJ 07640 340 Mayhill Street, Saddle Brook, NJ 07663 320 Main Street, Fort Lee, NJ 07024 257 Second Street, Palisades Park, NJ 07650 650 W. 235th St., Bronx, NY 10463 49 Park Avenue, Westwood, NJ 07675 79 Westwood Ave, Westwood, NJ 07675 5540 Mosholu Avenue, Bronx, NY 10471 328 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, New Jersey 07675 1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, NY 10701 239 Liberty Street, Little Ferry, NJ 07643 4790 Broadway, New York, NY 10034 239 West Midland Avenue, Paramus, NJ 07652 435 South Broadway Suite 5, Yonkers, NY 10705 320 Boulevard, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604 628 West 207th Street, New York, NY 10034 170 Dyckman Street, New York, NY 10034 765 Route 17 South, Paramus, NJ 07652 198 Summit Street, Norwood, NJ 07648 280 West 231st Street, Bronx, NY 10463 144 Woodfield Road, Washington Township, NJ 07676 1 Memorial Drive, Lodi, NJ 07644 | Local events Laura Anderson Barbata Saturday, May 25, 5:00 PM Laura Anderson Barbata presents Transcommunality: Interventions and Collaborations in Stilt Dancing Communities Panel discussion with collaborators including the Brooklyn Jumbies, Tim Rollins, Edward Sullivan, Frank Veronsky, Stefan Falke, Stefan Hagen, and Liz Galván The work of Mexican-born artist Laura Anderson Barbata focuses on the social realm and often incorporates collaborations with traditional artisans; her pieces are included in various private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York and the Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City. Her new book Transcommunality examines a collaborative art project begun in Trinidad and Tobago, and highlights the way Anderson Barbata has integrated into her work The Brooklyn Jumbies, a group of stilt dancers from the West Indies and West Africa living in Brooklyn, and more recently Los Zancudos de Zaachila from Oaxaca, Mexico. The artist discusses her work at Greenlight with some of her artistic collaborators, including Najja Codrington and Ali Sylvester, founders of the Brooklyn Jumbies and collaborators on the Transcommunality project since 2006; artist Tim Rollins; Edward Sullivan, who wrote the book’s introduction; participating photographers Frank Veronsky, Stefan Falke, Stefan Hagen; and Liz Galván, Director of Centro de Diseño de Oaxaca. This event, timed to coincide with BAM’s DanceAfrica festival, will conclude with a book signing and perhaps… Moko Jumbies!
Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Baby Story Time: Acopladitos Sunday, June 2, 11:00 AM Baby Story Time: Acopladitos On Sunday mornings, children's performers keep babies and toddlers under 3 years old entertained with stories, songs, and interactive play. This Sunday, we welcome Acopladitos, a kid-friendly band dedicated to teaching Spanish language through music and movement to young learners. Nora and Angélica will guide children through a fun and interactive musical experience enhanced by delightful illustrations and props designed by local visual artist Tatiana Arocha. Children will listen, play, move, and sing along to live music from this magical new music project created by members of the Brooklyn indie band Balún. Join Acopladitos for a story time en Español and a live performance of Latin American favorites and original songs as they present their recently released CD/Book Music for Cool Kids en Español.
Ages 6 weeks to 3 years.
Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Alan Cox and Sam Yates: J.B. Priestly's CORNELIUS, Talk and Q&A Actor Alan Cox (The Caretaker, BAM) and director Sam Yates to discuss J.B. Priestley's CORNELIUS, which receives its New York premiere at Brits Off Broadway in June. FESTIVAL WEBSITE
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Sam Yates (director) trained with directors Michael Grandage, Phyllida Lloyd, Trevor Nunn, Josie Rourke, and Jamie Lloyd. Highlights as associate director include Hamlet starring Jude Law (dir. Michael Grandage, Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway); One Man, Two Guvnors (dir. Nicholas Hytner, National Theatre UK and World Tour); and Madame de Sade starring Judi Dench (dir. Michael Grandage, Donmar West End). From 2011 - 2013 Yates was Artistic Associate to Laurie Sansom at Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton. Direction includes Cornelius by J.B. Priestley (Finborough Theatre); Poetry Week with Josephine Hart (Donmar Warehouse); Mixed Marriage by St John Ervine (Finborough Theatre); Lights (National Theatre Studio); Mrs P. (Mercury Musical Developments); Electra and Oedipus (Garrick Theatre, Stockport); Grief by Eugene O'Hare and Clever by Sally Woodcock (RADA new plays festival); Oleanna (Hong Kong Arts Centre); The Turke (Arcola Theatre); The Tempest and Macbeth (ADC Theatre, Cambridge and Edinburgh Festival); and Purgatory by W.B. Yeats (Edinburgh Festival). He is Artistic Director of 31 Productions and through them produced Mixed Marriage and Cornelius (Finborough Theatre and 59E59 Theaters, New York).
Alan Cox made his Broadway debut as Owen in Translations for Manhattan Theatre Club at the Biltmore which originated at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. His work in the U.K. includes seasons at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Chichester Festival Theatre. He made his West End debut in Strange Interlude, and recent appearances include The Creeper and The Importance of Being Earnest. Off West-End he appeared in the London premieres of The Earthly Paradise, The Flu Season, The Rubenstein Kiss and Passion Play. He also played Tom Broadbent in John Bull’s Other Island at the Lyric Theatre Belfast and toured with Howard Barker’s Wrestling School in The Fence in its Thousandth Year. His film work includes August, The Speed of Thought, The Auteur Theory, Mrs. Dalloway, An Awfully Big Adventure and Young Sherlock Holmes. Television credits include Not Only But Always, Housewife 49 and John Adams (HBO).
J.B. Priestley (playwright) was born in 1894 in Bradford, Yorkshire. His plays dominated the London stage from the 1930s to the 1950s with such classics as Dangerous Corner, Eden End, Laburnum Grove, I Have Been Here Before, Time and the Conways, When We Are Married, Johnson Over Jordan, They Came to a City, An Inspector Calls, The Linden Tree, Summer Day’s Dream and The Glass Cage. His many novels include The Good Companions, Angel Pavement, Bright Day and Lost Empires. During the Second World War, he established a new reputation as a broadcaster and social commentator. He died in 1984
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CORNELIUS: A forgotten masterpiece from one of Britain's greatest dramatists, J. B. Priestley. New York, New York April 25, 2013—59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to welcome the Finborough Theatre production of J.B. Priestley's CORNELIUS, directed by Sam Yates, to Brits Off Broadway. Produced by Jagged Fence, Handsome Dog and 31 Productions, CORNELIUS begins performances on Saturday, June 1 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 30. Press opening is Tuesday, June 11 at 7 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday – Thursday at 7 PM; Friday at 8 PM; Saturday at 2 PM & 8 PM; Sunday at 3 PM & 7 PM. Single tickets are $70 ($49 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org. For more information, visit www.britsoffbroadway.com. As bankruptcy looms, the ever-optimistic Jim Cornelius, partner at import firm Briggs and Murrison, is fighting to keep his creditors happy and his spirits up. Tensions rise with the arrival of Judy, the beautiful, young typist who shows Cornelius the life he could have led. A forgotten masterpiece by one of Britain's greatest dramatists. This production of CORNELIUS was originally produced in association with Neil McPherson at Finborough Theatre as part of their 2012 rediscoveries season, where it received monumental accolades from the London critics, called "monumental" (The Guardian), "a superb revival" (Evening Standard), and "piercingly relevant, compassionate and delivers, like Cornelius' bons mots, with great style" (The Times, London). The cast features Emily Barber, Alex Bartram (Hedda Gabler, Duke of York/Almeida), Robin Browne (House and Garden, National Theatre), Pandora Colin (Design for Living, dir Peter Hall, Bath Theatre Royal), Alan Cox (The Caretaker, BAM), David Ellis (The Ballad of the Copper Revolution, Old Vic Tunnels), Andrew Fallaize (The Prince of Homburg, Royal Shakespeare Company), Col Farrell (The Dresser, Duke of York's Theatre), Beverley Klein (Les Miserables, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre and Palace Theatre), Jamie Newall (The Alchemist, National Theatre), Xanthe Patterson, and Simon Rhodes (Accomplice, Menier Chocolate Factory). The production designer is David Woodhead; the lighting designer is Howard Hudson; the composer is Alex Baranowski.
Location: Street: Drama Book Shop Additional: 250 West 40th Street City: New York, Province: New York Postal Code: 10018-1511 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Jack Hitt Jack Hitt ( Bunch of Amateurs) Jack Hitt is a contributing editor to the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and public radio’s This American Life. He also writes for Rolling Stone, GQ, Wired, and, of course, Garden & Gun. He has won the Peabody Award, as well as the Livingston and Pope Foundation Awards. (added from Random House)  Greenlight Young Readers Book Group Tuesday, May 28, 6:30 PM Young Readers Book Group discusses Heart of a Samurai by Margi PreusLed by Greenlight bookseller and former teacher Brette, this book group is geared toward kids ages 8 to 14, and reads great contemporary and classic chapter books. Parents are welcome (but not required) to attend; pizza is served. For May the book group discusses Margi Preus’ novel Heart of a Samurai, a 2011 Newbery Honor book. In 1841 a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. Japan’s borders remain closed to all Western nations, so the crew sets off to America, learning English on the way. Manjiro, a 14-year-old boy, is curious and eager to learn everything he can about this new culture. Eventually the captain adopts Manjiro and takes him to his home in New England. The boy lives there for some time and then heads to San Francisco to pan for gold. After many years, he makes it back to Japan, only to be imprisoned as an outsider. With his hard-won knowledge of the West, Manjiro is in a unique position to persuade the emperor to ease open the boundaries around Japan; he may even achieve his unlikely dream of becoming a samurai. Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Dan Savage Dan Savage Julie Sarkissian Julie Sarkissian is a graduate of Princeton University, where she won the Francis Leon Paige Award for creative writing, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. She lives in New York City. (added from Simon & Schuster)  Philipp Meyer will be promoting The Son The Unwinding Meet journalist George Packer as he reads from his new book The Unwinding. The New Yorker: The Big Story100 free tickets are available at The New Yorker starting at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, May 22. (added from Macmillan)May Swenson Centennial Tribute  Joanna Hershon Book Expo America 2013 Wednesday, May 29 9:30 am – 5:30 pm BEA Conference Program 9:30 am – 5:30 pm Global Market Forum: Mexico 11:00 am – 5:00 pm 11:00 am – 5:00 pm CIROBE Remainders and Sidelines Pavilions Open Early
(NOTE: Only the Remainders and Sidelines Pavilions are open during this time, the rest of the Exhibit Hall opens Thursday, May 30)
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Press Room Hours
http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/Home/ (MDGentleReader)… (more) Kathe Lison Kathe Lison ( The whole fromage) A native of Wisconsin, "America's Dairyland," Kathe Lison is an award-winning essayist whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals and won an Emerging Artist Grant from the Utah Arts Council. She lives in Arizona. (added from Random House)  Peter Filichia's New Book Looks at Best Musical Tony Losers, In conjunction with the publication of his STRIPPERS, SHOWGIRLS, AND SHARKS Wednesday, May 29th at 5 p.m. Peter Filichia's New Book Looks at Best Musical Tony Losers In conjunction with the publication of his STRIPPERS, SHOWGIRLS, AND SHARKS Peter Filichia will be interviewed by Ken Bloom, author of Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest. They'll discuss the logical choices, outrages, close races and upsets that have occurred in musical categories in the 66-year history of the Tony Awards.
Peter Filichia is the theater critic emeritus for the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey and News 12 New Jersey. He has been a columnist for Playbill, Theater.com, Theatermania and Theater Week.
He is a currently a columnist for www.masterworksbroadway.com as well as www.mtishows.com and www.kritzerland.com each on Friday.
Filichia is the author of Let's Put on a Musical, now in its gthird printing; Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit of the Season / The Biggest Flop of the Season and Broadway Musical MVPs 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Last 50 Seasons. Before joining the Theatre World Awards in 1996 as host and head of the selection committee, Filichia served four terms as president of the Drama Desk.
Location: Street: 250 W. 40th St. City: New York, Province: New York Postal Code: 10018-1511 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Dave Goldberg  Ben Mezrich will be promoting Straight Flush  North Korea, Vietnam, and the Making of Two Pulitzer Prizes The 2013 Pulitzers made literary history when Random House editor David Ebershoff's authors (yes, two of them) won the prestigious award. Join Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master's Son), winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and Frederik Logevall ( Embers of War), winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, for a moderated discussion with David Ebershoff. (ELiz_M)Amy Neftzger Amy Neftzger signs The Orphanage of Miracles. BookExpo America (BEA) is North America’s largest gathering of book trade professionals attracting an international audience. It is organized with the support of association partners including the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the American Booksellers Association (ABA). BEA is recognized for the media attention it brings to upcoming books as well as for the notable authors it attracts to the convention itself. (Neftzger)… (more) Book Expo America 2013 Thursday, May 30 8:00 am – 9:30 am Adult Book & Author Breakfast 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Press Room Hours 9:00 am – 5:00 pm BEA Conference Program 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Exhibit Hall 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Exhibitor Meeting Rooms 9:00 am – 5:00 pm International Rights Center (MDGentleReader)Amy Hatvany Amy Hatvany is the author of Outside the Lines, Best Kept Secret, and The Language of Sisters. She lives in Seattle with her family. (added from Simon & Schuster)  Koethi Zan Dan Savage  Alafair Burke will be promoting If You Were Here Shabbat Story Time Thursday May 30 from 1:30pm to 2:00pm Shabbat Story Time Emmy Atlas from the Jewish Concierge and Heather Brown from Shomrei Emunah will be reading Shabbat stories and singing songs. Each family will also receive there very own Challah. Location: Street: 54 Fairfield St. City: Montclair, Province: New Jersey Postal Code: 07042-4137 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) |
