See A Free Play Performed On A Park Slope Street This Saturday

Sometimes it feels like you’re walking through one big play when you’re travelling the streets of Brooklyn, but this Saturday, June 22 it will actually be true. Brave New World Repertory Theatre will be presenting two performances (at 1pm and 5pm) of Street Scene, live and for free on 5th Street between 8th Avenue and Prospect Park West:

Elmer Rice won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for his play about a New York City “village” rife with domestic quarrels, racial and ethnic tensions and economic anxiety. Brave New World is taking Rice’s work to the streets—literally. The site-specific production will spill out the front windows and onto the front stoop and sidewalk of a tenement in Park Slope, which will serve as the stage with the audience seated in the street, closed to traffic for the day.

There is limited free seating for the elderly and disabled, as well as reserved seating for online donations of $75 or more — see their site for more info on both of those. Otherwise, seating is there as available, and there will be unlimited standing room.