Music on Sunday Night:
Carefusion Jazz Festival tonight at Barbes at 9PM: Anthony Coleman Plays Jelly Roll Morton. Coleman has worked with John Zorn, Glenn Branca and Dave Douglas (to name the proverbial few) and is one of Marc Ribot’s Cubano postizos. He has led groups such as the Selfhaters and Sephardic Tinge and tours regularly in Europe and the US. He is a voraciously curious musician and a superb pianist who can play Monk, Art Tatum or Sephardic music just as well as he can play post-modern mambo on a Casio. He has applied himself to the music of Jelly Roll Morton the way Borges’ Pierre Menard applied himself to re-writing Don Quixote – and the result is breathtaking.
13th Annual Black Box New Play Festival
Through June 27th: Where can a playwright find an outlet? Where can an audience see new works? The Gallery Players provides both of these in this Festival. Over the years of producing the Festival, we have developed works by countless playwrights, many of whom continue to work with The Gallery Players each year to incubate their new ideas. More than 300 plays have appeared in the Black Box New Play Festival since its inception and this year will bring even more writing and acting talent to the stage. Who knows what you’ll discover in the Box?
Art Fair
Friday through Sunday in various locations: Bococacartsfestival.com, an annual fair in the Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens neighborhoods. Show times and locations vary.
Street Fair
Sunday, June 19: Seventh Heaven Street Fair on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope.
Film:
Saturday at 9PM at BAM: Am I Black Enough for You? Described as the definitive profile of Philly soul legend Billy Paul, most famous for his Grammy-winning number one single “Me and Mrs. Jones,” released when he was almost 40. Yet his more “militant” records made him “a criminally unmentioned proprietor of socially conscious, postrevolution, 60s Civil Rights music” (Questlove of The Roots).
Opens Friday at BAM: Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work exposes the private dramas of irreverent, legendary comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers as she fights tooth and nail to remain the queen of comedy. Filmed as a cinema verite documentary, the film reveals a rare glimpse of the comedic process and the toxic mixture of self-doubt and anger that often fuels it.
Pixar’s Toy Story 3 IS playing at the Park Slope Pavilion. It’s in Disney Digital 3D
1hr 49min – Rated G – Animation/Comedy/Action/Adventure: 1:30 2:15 2:45 4:10 5:00 6:50 7:35 8:00 9:30 10:05pm
Art:
At the Brooklyn Museum, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of Andy Warhol (1928–1987). During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the introduction of new techniques.