The following lists some outstanding Brooklyn theater and film offerings during March, 2011:
1. Theater at St. Ann’s Warehouse: Beautiful Burnout
An intense dance-like drama set in a boxing ring, brought to Brooklyn compliments of the National Theater of Scotland and Frantic Assembly. The theme of the play was inspired by Brooklyn's own original Gleason's Gym.
When & Where: Throughout March Ann’s Warehouse , (
When & Where: Sunday, March 6, 1:30 p.m., Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at the Brooklyn Central Library (Park Slope, Grand Army Plaza)
3. Dem Bums, a Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball movie.Take a trip back to Brooklyn's baseball heyday with this film, and a great exhibit on the Dodgers, all in the 1881 landmarked building that today houses the Brooklyn Historical Society.
When & Where:Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m., Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn Heights)
4. BAM Opera:Spring Season The Nightingale and Other Short Fables
Have a night out at the opera.
When & Where: March 1 to 6th, Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House(Fort Greene)
5. BAM Theater: The Diary of a Madman
As part of BAM’s spring theater season, The Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol,
adapted by David Holman with Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush Belvoir, and
directed by Neil Armfield, plays its US premiere.
When & Where: Through March 12th, Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater (Fort Greene)
6. The Legend of Buster Neal (World Premiere)
A family-oriented performance at the Billie Holiday Theater,this play spins the tale of a meeting between a contemporary youth and his deceased great great grandfather, an African American civil rights activist.
When & Where: Through March 27, Billie Holiday Theater (Bedford-Stuyvesant)
