OTBKB Weekend List: Nov 12-14

It’s Friday and the weekend beckons.  Here’s the best and most interesting stuff I could find. Now it’s up to you to get out there and do something. Click on read more to see it all…

Movies:

Brooklyn Heights Cinema: Waiting for Superman, Wall Street Money Never Sleeps

At BAM: For Colored Girls, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, The Social Network.

At the Park Slope Pavilion: Megamind 3D, For Colored Girls, Morning Glory, Due Date, The Social Network, Red, Hereafter.

Music

Nov 12, 13 at Issue Project Room: A festival of international vaulting voices, vivid sounds and vast genres Vital Vox, a Vocal Festival.

On Sunday November 14 a benefit for the PS 142 Amalia Castro School on the Lower East Side  the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), presented by Simone Dinnerstein and her Neighborhood Classics series,will perform a concert featuring music associated with New York’s Downtown new music scene, including works by Philip Glass, Phil Kline, Sarah Kirkland Snider and Nico Muhly.

Saturday Nov 13 at 8:15 at the Jewish Music Cafe: Eden and Except Saturday.

Theater

Through Nov 14 at The Gallery Players: The musical adaptation of that cult classic movie Reefer Madness.

Through Nov 14 at St. Ann’s Warehouse: Druid Theater’s Penelope. Ben Brantley loved it: “extravagantly imaginative”and ”deliciously acted.”

Nov 12-13 at BAM’s Next Wave Festival: Ping Chong’s adaptation of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood.

Art

Through Nov 27 at Park Slope’s 440 Gallery: Rite”, the debut exhibition of Katharine Colona Hopkins, who presents three large-scale works that encompass painting, wall- drawing, and animation.