There are several reasons to visit Williamsburg NY these days, but there are 2 Major Reasons to go to Metropolitan Avenue this month.
#1 - The Brick This intimate theater (really...like 10 seats in each row) turned out to be airy and enjoyable and staffed by serious-but-fun theater professionals. I went there to see ex-Milford-ite Stephanie Lane perform her "dance-theater show" Lighthouse Triptych.
Really Really liked it. And I have a Dance Allergy, so that's sayin' something!
Tickets are only $15 Only two shows remain:
Sunday, 6/16 @ 8pm Wednesday, 6/26 @ 9pm
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn
(take the L to Lorimer or the G to Metropolitan)
Here is an interview with Steph. She is a superior human being.
#2 - Just down the block (or perhaps Up the Block, I got a little turned around) at 555 Metropolitan Ave is a record store owned and run by my friend Nearly Normal Norman. It is called Norman's Sound and Vision.
Here is an article from the New York Times about Norman in his previous location near Astor Place in Manhattan. High rents forced him out.
Norman is one of the first people I met when I moved to the Village from San Francisco in 1971. That was a few years ago. We have shared a few best friends, whether they knew it or not, in a location and an era we remember fondly for it's intersection of Science Fiction, Progressive Rock, Street Theater, Punk, Fashion, Jazz, Photography, and passion.
Here is a video on Norman being a curmudgeon.
He sells turntables as well as Vinyl, Blessed Vinyl.
Go buy some.
#1 - The Brick This intimate theater (really...like 10 seats in each row) turned out to be airy and enjoyable and staffed by serious-but-fun theater professionals. I went there to see ex-Milford-ite Stephanie Lane perform her "dance-theater show" Lighthouse Triptych.
Lighthouse Triptych is inspired by Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse". In three stylistically distinct acts interweaving dance, music, and theater, the show follows characters in a family living off the coast of Scotland in the 1910s and '20s, and deals with the passage of time and our perceptions of chaos vs. control.
Really Really liked it. And I have a Dance Allergy, so that's sayin' something!
Tickets are only $15 Only two shows remain:
579 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn
(take the L to Lorimer or the G to Metropolitan)
Here is an interview with Steph. She is a superior human being.
#2 - Just down the block (or perhaps Up the Block, I got a little turned around) at 555 Metropolitan Ave is a record store owned and run by my friend Nearly Normal Norman. It is called Norman's Sound and Vision.
Norman is one of the first people I met when I moved to the Village from San Francisco in 1971. That was a few years ago. We have shared a few best friends, whether they knew it or not, in a location and an era we remember fondly for it's intersection of Science Fiction, Progressive Rock, Street Theater, Punk, Fashion, Jazz, Photography, and passion.Here is a video on Norman being a curmudgeon.
He sells turntables as well as Vinyl, Blessed Vinyl.
Go buy some.
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