Events for December 2009
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Tuesday - December 1st
Events / Theater Event
A Streetcar Named Desire
Brooklyn Academy of Music - 30 Lafayette Ave. - Brooklyn (Fort Greene)
Across the bridge in Brooklyn, BAM hosts Cate Blanchett on her world tour of “A Streetcar Named Desire”. We could gush about Blanchett's talent (Meryl who?) or Tennessee Williams' classic script. But this show goes beyond star casting to why we love theater. With Blanchett (and with Hoffman and...
Events / Theater Event
The Brother/Sister Plays
Public Theater - 425 Lafayette St. - New York (NoHo)
Like everyone else in American theater, I love these powerful, elemental dramas by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Metromix offered a rave review of "The Brothers Size" last season; now you can catch up on that and McCraney's two related plays (based on African myths) about sibling rivalry in a small...
Music / Metal
Rob Zombie
Hammerstein Ballroom - 311 W. 34th St. - New York (Midtown West)
6 p.m.
Rob Zombie is going to take some time off from re-making classic horror movies and is going back to what made him famous in the first place, music. Zombie hasn't headlined a tour since 2007, and it isn't just a greatest hits tour either. Zombie's new album, "HELLBILLY DELUXE 2 Noble Jackals, Penny...
Events / Theater Event
In the Next Room
Lyceum Theatre - 149 W. 45th St. - New York (Midtown West)
Sarah Ruhl is the darling of modern theater, a rare playwright whose so popular (with the in-crowd, at least) that she can write a play that opens straight on Broadway, with no tryout elsewhere! In the Next Room is a period piece about the invention of the titular instrumentused in the 19th c. to...
Events / Literature Event
The Comic Book Club
Peoples Improv Theater - 154 W. 29th St. - New York (Chelsea)
Comedy...comic books...it's an easy connection. The Comic Book Club is a weekly live show featuring comedians discussing the comic book industry with some of the finest creators.
Music / Acoustic
Mountain Goats
Webster Hall - 125 East 11th Street - New York
8 p.m.
John Darnielle's songs must be some of the most depressing ever committed to boombox tapethink child abuse, loneliness, lost lovebut they're also some of the most inspiring and beautiful. His Mountain Goats have been putting out these emotional atom-bombs for years now, often hewing to a very lo-fi...
Events / Performance
Ragtime
Neil Simon Theatre - 250 W. 52nd st. - New York (Midtown West)
A surprise upset in '98 had "Ragtime" lose the Best Musical Tony to "Lion King". Adapted from EL Doctorow's masterful novel, the musical shows the tumult of NYC in the first decade of the 20th century: historical figures rub shoulders with representatives from the Yiddish, black, and WASP...
Theater / Theater Event
BAM Next Wave Festival
Bam Rose Cinemas - 30 Lafayette Ave. - Brooklyn (Fort Greene)
BAM's annual showcase of avant-garde performance offers the best from around the world
Events / Theater Event
Hamlet
Broadhurst Theatre - 235 W. 44th St. - New York (Midtown West)
This autumn, the hot ticket is Jude Law as Hamlet
Events / Performance
Nightingale
MTC Stage 1 at City Center - 131 W. 55th St. - New York (Midtown West)
Lynn Redgrave troopers through health problems to present this moving portrait of her maternal grandmother.
