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Into the Woods at BFS

Raise your spirits, channel your inner child, and experience virtuoso performances by middle and upper school students at the fall musical, Into the Woods. With music by Stephen Sondheim and story by James Lapine, this now classic Broadway musical is a delight in every way. Tickets are free but need to be reserved in advance. […]

From Jerusalem, A Gift of Music from the Jewish-Arabic Youth Ensemble

  Music Connects All of Us — That was the uplifting message sent and received at BFS on Wednesday morning, Sept. 28. Six young musicians, ranging in age from 14 to 22, presented a concert to the Middle School and guests that was moving, inspiring, and musically outstanding. The Jewish-Arabic Youth Ensemble from the Beit Alpert Music […]

The Arts in Full Bloom This May

The month of May at BFS started off with an exhilarating Middle School production of Roald Dahl’s The Witches. It continues this week with three music concerts featuring our choral, orchestra, and jazz performing artists. And it concludes at the end of the month (May 24, 25, 26 with our spectacular All School Art Show at […]

The Young Music Men and Women of BFS

                              Violinist Claudius A. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato   Francisco V. entered the BFS eighth grade on an academic scholarship last year. His passions […]

Become the Artist You Are Meant to Be at SUMMER ARTS!

Summer Arts at Brooklyn Friends School offers a diverse and exciting art experience for children ages 7 to 12 (grades 3 to 7 in September 2018.) Boys and girls from schools across New York City explore their creativity and artistic abilities through an enriched interdisciplinary program. Children participate in all of the exciting studio art classes […]

Wigs Galore in The Witches

  They come in pink, black, yellow and red like a field of wildflowers but they are the bewigged Middle School coven who make up the bulk of the cast of Roald Dahl’s horror comedy opening his weekend.  First published in 1983 and made into a movie starring Angelica Huston in 1990, The Witches tells the story of recently […]

Reserve Your Tickets to “The Witches”

The Middle School Production of Roald Dahl’s “The Witches” will take place on Friday, May 6 at 4pm and 7pm and Saturday, May 7 at 7pm. Tickets are free but need to be reserved here.

IB Art Show Evokes New Whitney Museum Opening

A new building. A different location. Creative visual artists whose work is inspiring, provocative, imaginative and proficient. The BFS International Baccalaureate Visual Arts Show this month recalls, in some ways, last year’s heralded opening of the new Whitney Museum. Please come to celebrate the visual arts at BFS by attending this special community exhibition.  The […]

A Loop of Exchange: BFS Dance Concert Explores Middle East-US Connections

RESERVE TICKETS ONLINE “This year’s Middle & Upper School dance concert explores traditions and innovations from dance in the so-called Middle East,” explained Middle & Upper School Dance teacher Jesse Phillips-Fein ’97.  That includes a big dose of dabkeh, a celebratory folk dance from the Levantine region.  The concert also pays tribute to Beirut-based choreographer Omar […]

Reserve Your Tickets for the Dance Concert

The annual BFS Dance Concert takes place Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, at 4pm and 7pm on both days. Be sure to reserve your tickets now, as the shows have sold out in the past.

Luck Out This Weekend With Lucky Number 11

  With 11 short situational comedies ranging from the hell of visiting the DMV to waiting interminably in line at a theatre box office, this weekend’s Upper School play is sure to offer a little farcical fun for everyone. Why an evening of 10-minute plays instead of a single full length as usual?  After the epic […]

Middle and Upper School Presents Ragtime

TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD-OUT. The Middle and Upper School proudly presents the Fall 2015 Musical, Ragtime, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov 19-21. Tickets are free but must be reserved here. Ragtime, based on a book of the same name by E.L. Doctorow, weaves the stories of historical figures and fictional characters at the turn […]