August 5-12: A flamenco performance is an exorcism of sorts. The dancers, singers and musicians who practice this artform are forever in quest of a quality called duende – a word that has no exact English equivalent.
The village needs more revenue, and many businessowners believe the change will be good for business.
Friday, August 3: Jamie Saft & New Zion and other musicians, dancers and performance artists who live and work in Kingston will perform at this celebration of the reinvigoration of Midtown.
In the late afternoon last Thursday, the skies smiled down on the 156 runners who participated in the 16th annual Gardiner 5K Classic, a benefit event for the Gardiner fire department and rescue squad.
July 27, 29, August 1, 3 & 5: Though wildly popular in its native Russia, Anton Rubinstein’s 1871 opera is rarely mounted in the West. So it naturally falls to Bard SummerScape, with its ongoing mission to revive at least one unjustly neglected operatic work at the Fisher Center each summer, to right this wrong.
Saturday, July 28: Rivera has been nominated for Tonys ten times (a record equaled only by Julie Harris) and won twice. That’s not counting the Lifetime Achievement Tony that she just received, or her Kennedy Center Honors award or her Presidential Medal of Freedom. We’re talking about the original Anita in West Side Story, the original Rose in Bye Bye Birdie, the original Velma in Chicago.
Director Debra Granik has been noted for her knack in discovering incredible, hitherto-unknown actresses (Vera Farmiga, Jennifer Lawrence) and setting them on the path to Oscar nomination, and it looks like the gifted young New Zealander Thomasin McKenzie will be the next to burst out of the gate.
Advocate say pot possession should be punished by a civil fine rather than criminal prosecution.
Thursday-Sunday, July 19-22: It’s barely a stretch to say that all the giants of bluegrass, newgrass and old-timey country music still living since its 1984 founding have graced its stages. Fans come back year after year after year, as much to camp out and engage in informal picking sessions as to listen to the headline talents.
To anyone who loves sociopolitical satire, dystopian science fiction and transgressive humor, check out the invigorating directorial debut of Boots Riley, heretofore best-known as the lead rapper of the politically active Oakland band the Coup.