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Entertainment
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home on stage in Rhinebeck
Opening Friday, June 1: This play won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical, and it’s based on the autobiographical graphic novel titled Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, about her family’s Pennsylvania funeral home. You may also know the pioneering cartoonist’s name from the “Bechdel Test,” a now-standard parameter for judging whether or not a work of literature, film or TV show is sexist.
T Space gallery and trails in Rhinebeck now open to the public on Sundays
T Space has showcased the work of such art-world heavyweights as Martin Puryear, Richard Artschwager, Ai Weiwei and Carolee Schneemann.
Shadowland launches new season with K2
Saturday, June 2: Dealing with a serious injury and trapped on an icy ledge at 27,000 feet, two climbers confront the fine line between life and death. The New Yorker called the play “unexpectedly thrilling from start to finish.”
Arthur Getz New Yorker cover exhibition at Millerton’s Moviehouse
He was the publication’s most prolific art contributor, producing a grand total of 213 covers between 1938 and 1988.
Joan Tower to be honored at Bard concert
Saturday, June 2: The program features six chamber and solo works by this Grammy-winning composer, conductor and performer, including a preview of her new work.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: The space between
This interior glimpse will yield two words that I wish were different: progression and swelling. My tumors are squatters, sprawled out, feet up on the table, defiant, undaunted by previous attempts to evict them.
Ed Sanders’ investigative poetry takes on RFK’s final years
Sanders said he chose to write in verse because that had been his original intention with his book on the Manson Family, which was then transformed to prose paragraphs by his typists. After all, it was his own 1975 manifesto that called for poets to again become historians, “as they were in ancient times.”
Philip Roth is laid to rest in Annandale
How did Philip Roth, widely acclaimed as the greatest living American novelist at the time of his death last week, come to be buried at Bard College?
New local food market to set up at Hutton Brickyards
Kingston’s Hutton Brickyards is getting set for another summer season that will feature expanded facilities, riverside “glamping” and a food festival showcasing regional cuisine.