President’s Day and Monday is a holiday for some (no banks, no mail). Some of us get to sleep late. Nice. Some people actually are on vacation in warm places (grrrr lucky people). But there’s stuff to do around here…
This weekend at the Pavilion: Black Swan, The King’s Speech, Gnomeo and Juliet, Just Go With It, Justin Beiber in 3-D
This weekend at BAM: Black Swan, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, True Grit
This weekend at Cobble Hill Cinema: Biutiful, Blue Valentine, The King’s Speech, True Grit, True Grit, Cedar Rapids
Check out Now I’ve Heard Everything for other great music this weekend. He’s the man and he knows.
Comedy in the Slope
Sunday night at Union Hall at 7:30 PM (doors open): Eugene Mirman presents Pretty Good Friends, a weekly comedy show.
Music
Sunday at Zora Space at 5-7PM: Deidre Rodman Struck is an Idaho native, mother, singer/songwriter, and former circus musician. She has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, Natalie Merchant, Garland Jeffreys, Mary McBride and The Jazz Passengers. In addition, Deidre has three jazz CDs out on the Sunnyside label, and recently released a new pop EP, Circle. She also sings and plays keyboard with children’s band/all-girl band The Itty Biddies/Lascivious Biddies in conjunction with Carnegie Hall’s CarnegieKids/Musical Connections program. Elvis Costello has hailed her as “a wonderful pianist and a delicate composer with a truly unique voice.”
Sunday at Barbes at 9PM: French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel 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.
Theater
Through March 27th at the Billie Holiday Theater in Bed-Stuy: The Legend of Buster Neal, written and directed by Jackie Alexander, is currently playing. It depicts an inter-generational conversation between a civil rights activist from the mid 20th century and his 21st century grandson.
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 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.