What They’re Saying About: live arts in Brooklyn this week, February 13

A roundup of Brooklyn’s cultural offerings this week, from comedy to theater to music to art, and what critics are saying about them.

The Second City opens in Brooklyn
Comedy
64 N 9th St., Williamsburg
Opening Monday, Feb. 12. Shows daily @ 7pm and 10pm on weekends, link here for more.

This historic improv theater has just opened its first ever NYC location in Williamsburg, and every comedian in the borough wants a piece of the action.

“The founders of Second City, the storied comedy theater, took its name from essays by The New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling, who skewered Chicago as inferior to his hometown. Now, more than 60 years later, Second City has found a home in New York.” – Julia Jacobs, The New York Times

“Legends like Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, and Stephen Colbert all began with us and we can’t wait to start spreading the news about the next generation of rising stars! Join us for wild laughs, bold sketch comedy, and our world famous improvisation.” – Second City

“You never know where the night is going to go, because the audience is part of the show.”
Rachel Dratch, student of The Second City, Chicago, speaking on the TODAY show.

Public Obscenities
Theatre
Theatre for a New Audience, 262 Ashland Pl, Fort Greene
Shows through Feb. 25
Discount tickets available for $20 through New Deal “Under 30” program

After being twice-extended and receiving a New York Times Critic’s Pick at Soho Rep, Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s Public Obscenities is now being extended through Feb. 25 at TFANA in Fort Greene.

“A confident playwright … who with Public Obscenities may have found himself on the brink of greatness.” – Juan A. Ramirez, The New York Times

“Chowdhury, a librettist, poet, director, and experimental theatre-maker from the fringe, has turned to fine-grained realism for his first major play, and his ease with destabilization has, paradoxically, given this…