Up-and-coming downtown Rosendale has added a brand-new art gallery to its attractions. Just opened on June 1, it’s called Art JuXtapose, and it offers artists more than simply a place to show and broker their work.
Coppersea Distilling recently celebrate the release of its long-awaited Excelsior Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon with an event featuring live music and a pig roast.
Aug. 6-30: Cyrano is a truly larger-than-life character. Go make his acquaintance this summer in the theater tent perched above the finest view in the Hudson Highlands at Boscobel House and Gardens.
The film is a poignant, lyrical and occasionally eye-opening documentary about musician Leonard Cohen and muse Marianne Ihlen that is doomed to disappoint its intended audience on one or more levels, even while they lap it up.
Nearly two-and-a-half years after Phillip Rapoport and Kristin Soong Rapoport first came before Gardiner officials to broach the subject of their Heartwood eco-cabin project in Tuthilltown, the Planning Board voted at its July 16 meeting to put its imprimatur on the final version of the site plan, dated July 8.
There isn’t much more detail in which a reviewer of White Rabbit Red Rabbit can indulge without spoiling its content. It is structured to be performed as a “cold reading” by a different actor every night – an actor who has neither read the script nor ever seen a performance of the play. Thousands of actors have risen to the challenge over the past decade, some of them quite famous, and not every one has relished such a raw experience of “winging it.” There’s some room for improv built into the script, but mostly it requires a close and exact reading. Following the author’s instructions to the letter is essential to the message he’s trying to convey.
July 26-Aug.4: An allegorical tale about the destruction of a dictatorship by a woman, with a libretto by Hans Müller-Einigen inspired by an Expressionist mystery play by Hans Kaltneker, The Miracle of Heliane is set in an unnamed totalitarian state where an intricate erotic triangle develops among a ruthless despot, the Ruler; his beautiful wife Heliane, with whom he has yet to consummate his marriage; and a young, messianic Stranger.
When the call for original short plays went out, the Theatre received 49 submissions and selected ten. These are fully staged productions, not mere readings, and are collectively dubbed “The Love/ Death Plays.”
Mounting some of the Bard’s more obscure, rarely seen plays seems to be trending among our region’s purveyors of summertime Shakespeare. The latest to jump on the repertoire-expansion bandwagon is the Bird-on-a-Cliff Theatre Company, whose offering for this 24th season of the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival is a true outlier: Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
Brutally hot weather, topping 100-degree readings on both Saturday and Sunday, suppressed turnout markedly at the 2019 Rosendale Street Festival. But not one of the 80+ bands who signed up to play for free failed to show up on account of the heat, and not one attendee needed to be treated for heat-related illness, according to Festival officials.