Lots of cool stuff, including a LIVE screening of Nixon in China from the Metropolitan Opera at 1PM at BAM. The Diary of a Mad Man by Gogol with Geoffrey Rush at BAM AND Frost/Nixon at Height Players. Also: the new high school fair is Saturday and Sunday AND Biutiful with Javiar Bardem (swoon) shows at the Cobble Hill Cinema. Click on read more for more ideas and all the essential details.
Education
New High School Fair this Saturday and Sunday: The DOE will introduce 12 new high schools that are scheduled to open in September. A handbook listing the schools will be is posted online and available at the fair on February 12-13, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eighth graders interested in attending these schools may request an application from their guidance counselor. Although high school applications were submitted in December, students may change their applications if they applied to a school that will now be closing or if they want to attend a new school. The fair comes the week after the Panel for Education Policy voted to close 22 schools, most of which will be replaced by small schools.” From Inside Schools
Movies:
Opera on Screen at BAM at 1PM on Saturday: A LIVE screening of the Metropolitan Opera production of Nixon in China at 1pm on Saturday. Nixon in China premieres at the Met in this revival directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by composer John Adams. This American opera explores the human side of President Nixon’s historic 1972 visit with Mao Tse-tung—gripping political theater in its own right—that paved the way for relations between the US and Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars as Nixon, and Mark Morris choreographed the famous dance sequences.
This weekend at the Pavilion: Black Swan, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, Gnomeo and Juliet, Just Go With It, Just Go with It, Jusin Beiber in 3-D
This weekend at BAM: Black Swan, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, True Grit
This weekend at Cobble Hill Cinema: Black Swan, Biutiful, Blue Valentine, The King’s Speech, True Grit
Music
Sunday at the Bell House at 11AM: For families: Minnesota’s own, The Okee Dokee Brothers and “The Czars of Brooklyn” Rolie Polie Guacamole rock the Bell House! Make your own recycled art project by Private Picassos, and food for sale from The V-Spot.
Saturday at Union Hall at 8PM and 11PM: Girlfriend in a Coma, a Smiths Tribute show in honor of Valentine’s Day with The Son and Heirs, DJ Creston Carbuncle. The 8PM show is sold out, 11PM show just added.
Saturday at Zora Space at 8PM: Pat and Dean. They formed their duet in January 2005, performing original music, jazz, traditional folk, and creative works, that explore the textures of male and female voices. Patrizia Ferrara is an accomplished vocalist and arranger based in Brooklyn and Vienna.
Check out Now I’ve Heard Everything for other great music this weekend. He’s the man and he knows.
Theater
This weekend at Heights Players: Frost/Nixon examines the people and events surrounding the famous series of interviews that Richard Nixon granted to British TV talk show host David Frost in 1977. Frost, a noted playboy and jet-setter of the period, seems an unlikely man for the job, but he manages something that no other journalist or prosecutor could — he extracts a confession and an apology from the former president.
This weekend at BAM: Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech, Exit the King, Broadway) comes spectacularly unglued as the lowly civil servant Poprischin, driven mad by bureaucracy in Nikolai Gogol’s darkly comic short story The Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage by playwright David Holman with Rush and director Neil Armfield for Australia’s adventurous Belvoir (Cloudstreet, 2001 Next Wave; Exit the King, Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre).
This weekend at St. Ann’s: Tell the Way featuring Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon, Bryce Dessner, Bishi, ACME and Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
This weekend at Gallery Players: The Drowsy Chaperone: “Take a spin on our narrator’s turntable and dive into the world of madcap musical mayhem and mischief as the cast album of his favorite Broadway show bursts to life in his living room. It’s the tale of a brazen follies starlet giving up the stage for love, and all the zany guests who’ve gathered for her wedding, including the gin-soaked chaperone assigned to keep a watchful eye, albeit at half-mast, on this motley crew.” Through February 20th.