Brooklyn Theatre Newsroom

Brooklyn Botanic Garden has announced that CherryWatch, the interactive map of BBG's flowering cherry trees, has launched for the 2025 season, tracking the lavish cherry blossoms from first bud to breathtaking full bloom in the coming weeks.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden has announced that CherryWatch, the interactive map of BBG's flowering cherry trees, has launched for the 2025 season, tracking the lavish cherry blossoms from first bud to breathtaking full bloom in the coming weeks.

Miro Magloire presents his New Chamber Ballet in a repeat of his 2023 'Well,' inspired by the compositions of contemporary composer Anthony Cheung in April

DanceAfrica, BAM's longest-running program and the nation's largest festival of African dance and culture, returns for its 48th year with a full weekend of performances, films, dance classes, and community events over Memorial Day weekend.

The Green-Wood Cemetery has revealed its spring and summer 2025 programming. From thought-provoking death education programs to historic tours, live performances, and community events, Green-Wood offers compelling ways to experience the Cemetery's beauty and history. 

Hayley Eber has been selected as Executive Director of Van Alen Institute by the organization’s Board of Directors after an extensive national search.

From April 17–20, Welcome to Campfire invites the public to step inside a high-stakes clinical trial. Subject, a movement-driven psychological thriller, unfolds in a near-future NYC where Memredux Laboratories, a top-tier pharmaceutical corporation, is on the verge of developing the first-ever memory-erasing medication. As two test subjects undergo observation in real time, what begins as a drug trial unravels into an intimate reckoning with memory and loss. 

NYC Cultural Affairs Commissioner Laurie Cumbo has announced the “last call” for artists interested in designing two permanent, public monuments in New York City: one monument honoring jazz legend Billie Holiday in Queens, and one honoring public health pioneer Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías in the Bronx.

After sold out performances at The Cobra Club and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jack and Zoe Comedy and Durnmoose Entertainment return with A Night of Drama.

Pakistan's award-winning Hamza Akram Qawwal & Brothers, grandsons of the revered Munshi Raziuddin, return to Roulette after their performances in 2019 and March of 2024.

Dialogue with Three Chords (D3C) has rescheduled the start of their Spring 2025 season. The first performance of the Spring season is rescheduled to April 24th. Learn more here!

EMERGE125's 2025 season program has been announced. The show is a celebration of the company, its supporters, and the entire community. Following three successful years as the resident company of The Flea Theater, has announced its transfer to El Museo del Barrio.

A new queer tragedy by Che Flory goes up at JACK in Brooklyn this spring. This production was directed by playwright Che Flory and stars Kyle Showalter as Monty, Ness Sinclair as Gabe, and Christopher Niesner as Dave.

A new queer tragedy by Che Flory goes up at JACK in Brooklyn this spring. Monty has settled into a life as a live-in portrait model for the eccentric painter, Dave. Learn more!

Gibney Company, New York City’s dynamic creation-based repertory company known for its rigorous physicality and responsive, humanistic storytelling, will return to The Joyce Theater in May.

The Heights Players will present 'The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales,' adapted for the stage by John Glore, with performances on Saturday, March 22nd at 12:00 PM & 2:00 PM.

Six ensembles are teaming up to present DECENNIA, a two-day event in one of Bushwick's hottest new locations. DECENNIA will highlight different approaches to live composition in various decades chosen by each ensemble as they remix the art, politics, and culture. Each decade's performance will incorporate a combination of actors, dancers, musicians, or visual artists.

WMI and Kings Theatre welcome Senegal's legendary Youssou NDOUR back to NYC, to celebrate the April 4th release of his new album, Eclairer le monde (Light the World).]

The Bushwick Starr is partnering with HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theater Company to present the world premiere of Rheology, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Shayok Misha Chowdhury.

Brooklyn based  magician Greg Dubin, aka Dubini, will bring a brand-new magic experience to Carroll Gardens. Nestled on a quiet Brooklyn street is Precision Clock and Watch.  But the clock shop is more than meets the eye.

​​​​​​​Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, maestro of the sitar, and his son Shakir Khan, a dynamic young classical sitarist, will unite on stage for the first time in New York. Learn more here!

Jared Palmer Kirsch and Jay Reed are back with a brand spanking new episode of hit TV Show, Family Guy at Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Learn how to attend.

 As a part of its Spring 2025 Season, The Billie Holiday Theatre - one of the nation’s preeminent arts and culture organizations - presents the next edition of its new theater series “Black Narrative” in collaboration with the award-winning New Black Fest.

Dialogue with Three Chords will launch their Spring 2025 season with their Deluxe reissue series of plays. The first of these feature author H.P. Lovecraft and his time living in Brooklyn paired with a new play set in Providence, Rhode Island, where Lovecraft also lived.

Living Room Productions has announced the upcoming performance of Catya McMullen's darkly comedic play, 'GEORGIA MERTCHING IS DEAD,' at Brooklyn Art Haus.