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Brooklyn’s hub for cutting-edge creativity and connection. Home of #Next Wave, #DanceAfrica, #BAMFreeMusic, and that thing you heard about.

Brooklyn
Joined October 2008
The Ford/Hill Project is one of NY Times' "25 Plays to Catch Off Broadway This (Very) Busy September." Directed by Lee Sunday Evans, starring Elizabeth Marvel & Gabby Beans as Christine Blasey Ford & Anita Hill respectively. 🗞️ nyti.ms/4zPolOd 🎟️ tr.ee/ztDZtE
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Summer Sounds, 3 nights of live performances organized by BAM artist-in-residence and curator Helga Davis, begins on Weds, Aug 5. This series is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. RSVP for the latest info: tr.ee/ztDZtE
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When the temperatures rise, our doors are open. 💙 This summer, BAM's Peter Jay Sharp lobby serves as an official NYC Cooling Center, offering a safe, air-conditioned place for our neighbors to escape the heat. 🕘 Cooling Center Hours: Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm, 30 Lafayette Ave
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"Almond's gorgeous tone is often archly hilarious, yet there's a sadder chord underneath. Why is it so hard just to let someone in?" I'm Almost There closes Sunday, June 28. Get your tickets to the last shows now. 🗞️ nyti.ms/4wdhE5X 🎟️ tr.ee/ZaLgRH
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"'You’re never gonna believe this,' Almond says in his opening line, and the magical-realist tenor of much of the ensuing episodic narrative fulfills that line’s promise....an epic journey...an allegorical self-reckoning." 🎟️ tr.ee/ZaLgRH 🗞️ bit.ly/4eoo5fa
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"Swoops us into a surreal vision...utterly charming...vivid." Be transported—I'm Almost There will take you away. Now playing through June 28. Get your tickets here: tr.ee/ZaLgRH blogcritics.org/theater-revi…
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"Stuffed with crisp comic character sketches of a series of urban weirdos." The most New York musical, now playing at BAM. Tickets are on sale: tr.ee/ZaLgRH exeuntnyc.com/reviews/review…
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"A truly Homeric yarn that plays like an absorbing blend of David Sedaris, Homer, and the Metropolitan Diary of The New York Times." I'm Almost There is playing through June 28. Get your tickets now: tr.ee/ZaLgRH culturesauce.com/todd-almond…
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"AAADT Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack’s excitement was palpable as she spoke of the return of 'Hymn,' Jamison’s epic collaboration with the brilliant Anna Deavere Smith." bit.ly/3Slenmd
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Celebrate Pride with us at Everybooty: "On June 14, the day rave Everybooty takes over four floors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene." nytimes.com/2026/05/29/arts/…
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the BAM, peforming "Hymn" for the first time in 15+ years. The piece is Judith Jamison's tribute to Alvin Ailey. Listen to artistic director Alicia Graf Mack in "Mornings On 1" discuss the program. bit.ly/4wZWr0B
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Written by William Shakespeare around 1600 and first performed at the turn of the 17th century, Hamlet is one of “literature’s most enduring tragedies....almost as dramatic as when someone gets left on read 👀” Now thru 5/17 🗞️ bit.ly/4t9MnPu 🎟️ tr.ee/YZJKpe
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Hamlet in Vogue by Jenna Diaz. Now playing through May 17. Tickets at tr.ee/YZJKpe
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"It embraces grief, rage, betrayal, indecision, cowardice, duty, melancholy, madness, and so much more — all the many manifestations of human interiority — which partly explains why it has never aged." Hamlet opens April 26. vulture.com/article/why-is-h…
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"Abeysekera inhabits the role with an emotional resonance that kept an audience of nearly 1,000 hanging on his every word in London." vogue.com/article/hiran-abey…
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"Word. Sound. Power. returns to Brooklyn Academy of Music this spring with a celebration of women in hip-hop culture, amplifying their voices across generations, boroughs, and artistic traditions." bit.ly/4tkC3Ez
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Hamlet, Moby Dick, and Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth got the New York Times' thumbs-up 👍 Enjoy some of the best theater NYC has to offer, right here at BAM. 🗞️ nytimes.com/2026/04/01/theat… 🎟️ tr.ee/8zxNJO
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