Arts in My Backyard – Bronx – May
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Recently on Broadway with a star-studded cast, All My Sons by Arthur Miller is set in a seemingly idyllic small town in Middle America just after World War II. Behind the picket fence is a family struggling with the havoc caused by war, greed and deception. The Keller’s have lost a son to war. Mrs. Keller refuses to accept his death. The other son is having a love affair with his brother’s girlfriend. Mr. Keller was sent to prison for selling defective airplane parts, but was set free even though his partner, the girlfriend’s father, stayed locked up. Like the wind that destroys an apple tree in the Keller’s front yard, the secrets that Miller’s characters keep destroy the bonds between family and friends. The storm that opens the play is only a sprinkle compared to the storm that is unleashed when the truth is told.
Showtimes: Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings – 8pm Sunday Matinee – 2pm. April 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23 and 24, 2010
Preview Performance on April 8 – 8pm.
General Admission $ 18.00 – Seniors and Students $ 15.00
Located at the Center Stage Community Playhouse: discounts to bonafide groups of 10 or more
Foster Hall at 2474 Westchester Avenue, two blocks south of East Tremont Ave. Call (718) 823-6434 for ticket reservations
Pregones Theatre
FREE EVENT! Thursday March 4th 7pm: Pregones Theater 571 – 575 Walton Avenue, The Bronx, N.Y. 10451 Tel: 718-585-1202 email: info@pregones.org
Don’t miss an intimate conversation with painter Pablo Marcano Garcia…accompanied by his master violinist Henry Hutchinson. For the theatre’s musical celebration Marcano-Garcia will be displaying a stunning large scale exhibit entitled “Parto Musical” in the lobby. Hutchinson recently received the Pregones Latino Master Artist Award. Both will be speaking about their work and how they have become two of the most celebrated Puerto Rican artists today.
Los pleneros de la 21
Saturate yourself in Puerto Rican culture at this New York boriqua experience. There will be lots of hip shaking, skirt flying and contagious rhythyms.
Tickets $15 for students, discount with a group of 10+
Sunday March 28th 3pm
The Bell House
Flyin’ Cut Sleeves Screening and Panel Discussion at THE POINT CDC
Friday March 26th from 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: 940 Garrison Avenue, Bronx, NY 10474; Live Edge Theatre
For more info: (718) 542.4139.
FREE
Set in the South Bronx of the early 80’s, Flyin’ Cut Sleeves, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. The documentary project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher, the film’s co-producer, who taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, became intimately involved with the gangs, their leaders, and the leaders’ families and began to document their lives. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence.
Doors open @ 6PM and the film screening will take place from 6:30-730PM. A panel discussion will take place immediately following the film where the audience can meet and greet the producers Henry Chalfant and Rita Fecher as well as some members of the original cast.
FREE. An adult must accompany anyone under 16 years of age. Light refreshments will be served. NEA Big Read 2010 “Sun, Stone, and Shadows” books and promotional materials will also be distributed.