BAM Will Program a Few Shows a Year at Barclays Center

The Times reports that the Brooklyn Academy of Music has inked a deal to select a few big productions that will be staged every year at the Barclays Center. BAM’s president, Karen Brooks Hopkins, says the shows will be “on a very large scale, large nouvelle cirque kind of work, big dance kind of things, music.” BAM will get a curatorial fee from the agreement but not a cut of the ticket sales. Forest City Ratner Chairman Bruce Ratner says the move isn’t meant to win over Atlantic Yards critics: “We care a tremendous amount about the community, but we don’t do it to get credit.”