FILM
Friday, March 19 at 2PM BAM presents To Catch a Thief, a free Senior Cinema event at BAM. Grant and Kelly make fireworks in this breezy romantic mystery from Alfred Hitchcock. John “The Cat” Robie (Grant) is an ex-jewel thief living in France who may or may not be behind a recent string of burglaries. The element of danger only excites American socialite Kelly who’s all too happy to get mixed up in a little danger.
The Ghost Writer, Alice in Wonderland, Shutter Island at BAM; Green Zone (with Matt Damon), Avatar in 3D, Crazy Heart and Shutter Island at the Pavilion in Park Slope
Also at BAM on Friday, March 19 at 9:15PM: White Material, the latest from living legend Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum, Beau Travail), the director returns to her homeland of Africa for this story about a headstrong woman (Isabelle Huppert) who refuses to abandon her coffee plantation even as violence and civil war erupt around her and her family. An evocative examination of post-colonial African political strife that resists easy answers and opts for a far more personal, philosophical approach to a complex subject. In French with English subtitles.
MUSIC
March 21, at 9PM Food, drink, and a dressed-down version of the English Baroque come together in Love’s Delights, an exquisite evening of arias and instrumentals staged in the intimacy of BAMcafé. Join rising star conductor Jonathan Cohen and members of Les Arts Florissants as they perform selections by Purcell, Handel, F. Mancini, and Blow.
March 23 and March 25-27 at BAM: The Fairy Queen is a semi-opera (or dramatic opera), an early form of opera from the English Baroque that combines spoken plays with intermittent singing and dancing. Considered Purcell’s greatest work in this form, The Fairy Queen was thought to be lost following his death but rediscovered at the turn of the 20th century. BAM presents a new edition of Purcell’s score, first performed in July of 2009 by Glyndebourne Festival Opera in celebration of the 350th anniversary of Purcell’s birth.
Friday, March 19 at 9PM: All Great Things, The Dough Rollers at Sycamore on Cortelyou Road in Ditmas Park.
THEATER
If you missed Brave New World Repertory Theater’s production of The Crucible at the Old Stone House: March 21-April 4, the Gallery Players present this classic play by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials.
Through March 28th, DUMBO’s St. Ann’s Warehouse presents A Life in Three Acts. “In this warm, intimate and engaging evening Mr. Bourne sits down…to recall his upbringing…, his years as an actor…, his discovery of the liberating joys of frocks and furbelows, his immersion in a politically active drag commune, and his fertile, happy years as a performer with the theater ensemble Bloolips. The evening has the informal feeling of a languid stroll through an English garden… with a strangely moving sense of the ordinary.”
– Charles Isherwood, NY Times
ART
Friday, March 19th at 2PM a gallery talk with Kiki Smith, an engaging conversation about her most recent installation, Sojourn, in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
Art.