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  • June 2, 2007 -
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    Ongoing "Showboat 'Round The Bend!" Exhibition
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  • April 7, 2009 -
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    "Brooklyn Sees Stars" opens at the Brooklyn Public Library
  • May 4, 2009 -
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    Spring Is Here benefit concert at Five Towns College
  • Nov. 16 - Dec. 18, 2009 -
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    "Brooklyn Sees Stars" will be on display at the Long Island University Brooklyn Campus library
     
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    In addition to the current exhibition, we have two in the development stage - BROOKLYN SEES STARS focuses on the theatre history of Brooklyn. ACTS OF INDEPENDENCE explores the role of theatre in Colonial America. Education materials are developed for each of the exhibitions with an outreach to schools and community centers. We have also conducted a number of walking tours, panel discussions and the Awards Ceremony which honors
    excellence in theatre history preservation, theatre arts education and career achievement.

     
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    Recent Exhibitions: Celebrating Brooklyn Theatre
     

    “Brooklyn Sees Stars” Exhibit

    THE BROOKLYN SEES STARS EXHIBITION AT LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY BROOKLYN CAMPUS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JANUARY 20 2010.

    The Brooklyn Sees Stars Exhibition is back by Popular Demand at Long Island University Brooklyn Campus from November 16 to December 18, 2009. 

    Directions: LIU Brooklyn Campus is located at One University Plaza, at the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues in downtown Brooklyn. By subway, take the B, M, Q, or R to DeKalb Avenue or 2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins Street. The Resnick Gallery is on the third floor of the Library Learning Center.

    For more information contact Nancy Grove, director of the visual arts dept, LIU Brooklyn Campus  at: 718-488-1198 or Nancy.grove@LIU.edu


     
    Theater Museum Education Event: “Theater in Brooklyn: Past, Present and Future”
     
    Fundraiser: Performing Arts Community Helps The Theatre Museum
     
    Introducing: A Floating Theatre (and museum)!
     

    Theater Museum Education Event:
    “Find Your Passion” Educational Enrichment Program at The Harlem Village Academy

     

    Meet The Author
     
    Interview with Joe Franklin
    by Lisa Ferber
    About Joe Franklin's Great Entertainment Trivia
     

    An Interview With Don Wilmeth
    By Alex Herrald
    About The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre

     
    Interview with Jodé Millman
    by Alieh Zaman
    About Seats New York: 3rd Edition
     
    Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story
    of America’s First Black Star

    by Camille F. Forbes Reviewed by Catherine Ritchie
     
    Interview with Leonard Jacobs
    by Catherine Cusic
    About Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater, 1850–1970
     

    Discovering The Hudson
    by Ward Moorehouse III

     

    The Voodoo That They Did So Well: The Wizards Who Invented
    The New York Stage

    by Stefan Kanfer

     
    Let's Put On a Show! Theatre Production for Novices
    by Stewart F. Lane
     
    Theaters
    by Craig Morrison