Nutcracker vs. Mouse King, at a theater near you
The world’s favorite ballet will be performed on three local stages this weekend.
Entertainment
Vanaver Caravan brings Into the Light! to Kaatsbaan
Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 14/15: This unique holiday production celebrates imagination and multicultural traditions. It’s set in a Northern country where Lucia loses her inner light as the Sun’s light diminishes with the winter season.
Supporting actor Ally Condrath steals the spotlight in Denizen’s Christmastown: A Holiday Noir
Condrath is a bundle of energy on the road to stardom, soon to appear in a TV series called Pixar IRL on Disney+. And for this month only, she’s in New Paltz.
Why Religion? Historian Elaine Pagels Reconnects at St. Gregory’s
Sunday, Dec. 15: Pagels is best-known for research and publication involving a cache of over 50 ancient Greek texts discovered translated into Coptic in Upper Egypt in 1945. After completing her doctorate at Harvard University, she participated with an international team of scholars to edit, translate and publish several of these texts as The Gnostic Gospels. It was the loss of her young son that inspired her deep exploration on the questions asked in this illuminating book.
Perrotta/Marotta play BSP
Friday, Dec. 20: The Marotta of course is the legendary drummer Jerry, who has played with pretty much everybody, but most pertinent to this discussion is his radical work as the featured percussionist on the first four Peter Gabriel solo albums – albums that defined a new way of arty ensemble playing (the third record in particular) and that established a musical dialect from which Sarah Perrotta has drawn across her entire career.
Bardavon presents Handel’s Messiah with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Cappella Festiva
Saturday, Dec. 21: A total of 140 instrumentalists and singers on the Bardavon stage will join the Philharmonic to perform George Frideric Handel’s most popular choral work. Audience members will be invited to sing along.
Dark Waters is a powerful environmental wake-up call
A man known for his personal environmental activism – particularly on the subject of fracking here in New York State – Mark Ruffalo the movie star disappears admirably into the role of a most unflashy, but doggedly tenacious, modern American hero.
Longtime Gilded Otter employees open their own place in Rosendale
Creekside Bar and Bistro has opened in the old Matsu building in Rosendale. The new business is owned by former longtime Gilded Otter employees Reshma Ramoutar and Juan Galvan.
Kingston After Dark: The Strange Ones
Welcome to another addition of Kingston After Dark. Hopefully by now you have managed to digest, and perhaps even excrete,
Hollywood-on-Hudson: Mohonk hosts Billions as local filmmaking ramps up
This week Mohonk Mountain House served as a set for a party scene in the fifth season of the Showtime series Billions, which stars Paul Giamatti as a US attorney (loosely based on Preet Bharara) and Damian Lewis as the hedge fund tycoon he’s pursuing. In Hudson Valley Film Commission director Laurent Rejto’s view, 2019 has quite simply been “the most successful year to date for regional film and TV production.”