The Sunday List: Mad Men, Django Experiment, Hamlet

Today is SUNDAY and it’s hot. I’m off to Block Island but you’re still here in need of things to do. Tonight, of course, you’ll be watching Mad Men on AMC at 10 PM. But if you don’t have cable there are things you can do…

Mad Men Viewing

If you’re in Park Slope (and you don’t have cable) you can watch those mad men and women smoke and drink at Bar 4 (444 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope), where they’re having a Mad Men viewing party. You can also watch it a Duffy Square (between 45th and 47th Streets and Broadway and Seventh Avenue) at 9 p.m. (one hour earlier than watching it on TV). Prior to the screening there will be  The screening will be “Mad Men” costume contests and  Elisabeth Moss, who plays Peggy, the copywriter from Brooklyn.

Music

Sunday, July 25 at Barbes at 7PM: The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco present theater slash performance slash entertainment brought to you once monthly by the playwriting firm of shulman delaney gassman kosmas and copp. Featuring new works for the tiny stage by landscape artist Erin Courtney, theater architect Yelena Gluzman, & word contstruction worker Kristen Kosmas.

Also at Barbes at 9PM: French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel (pictured above) seems to have channeled both the technique and the fire of Django Reinhardt. He studied for years with the manouche (the French Gypsies) but has also gotten deep into American vernacular musical styles. His weekly sets will mix up the traditional Django repertoire along gypsy swing re-interpretations of standards.

Film

Sunday, July 25th: Audrey the Trainwreck, a SXSW fave will be showing at Dumbo’s reRun Gastropub Theater, reBar‘s new independent movie theater – located just down the hall from the restaurant. Featuring 60 reclaimed car seats, a full bar and gourmet snack counter, and a twelve foot screen.

All weekend: Inception, I Am Love, The Kids Are All Right, Cyrus at BAM; Cary Grant film festival also at BAM

Theater

Through August 1, the Gallery Players presents . Broadway’s Jeremy Bobb stars as the Danish prince in their summer presentation of Shakespeare’s seminal work.

July 24 & 25: Piper Theater presents The Book of Liz by David and Amy Sedaris in Washington Park in Park Slope