Where to find the best Hudson Valley holiday light extravaganzas
Heads up and eyes open! ‘Tis the season to gaze in wonder at the holiday light shows mounted in neighborhoods and commercial venues far and wide.
Entertainment
A boy learns life lessons from the afterlife in Coco
Coco’s look is derived from the friendly-skeleton iconography of Día de los Muertos celebrations and the delightfully lurid colors of the monster figurines known in Mexico as alebrijes.
Nude Party at Colony in Woodstock
Saturday, Dec. 9: Look, even their own press kit warns that the Nude Party are called that for a reason: an aberrative behavioral tendency to disrobe. But even in Woodstock, where nudity was largely invented, local ordinances apply, and them pretty-faced Carolina bucks would do well to keep their trousers fastened unless they want to taste the salt on the cold concrete floors of the taxpayers’ mighty fine county detention center.
Robbie Dupree and Friends at Falcon, Colony
Robbie Dupree brings a whole new crop of ‘Friends’ with him when he takes the stage for the first time in two years in the area, at 8 p.m. Saturday, December 9 at the Falcon, in Marlboro, and then right at home in Woodstock, at 8 p.m. Sunday, December 10 at Colony, 22 Rock City Road.
Phoenicia Playhouse recreates a live radio broadcast
Opening on Friday, December 1, the show runs for three weekends, recreating a 1943 Christmas Eve broadcast.
Unison Arts Center hosts Holiday Fair Dec. 2-3 on SUNY campus
Unison Arts Center will host its 27th annual Holiday Craft, Art and Design Fair on Saturday and Sunday, December 2-3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the glass atrium student union building on the SUNY New Paltz campus.
Kids’ Almanac: Nov. 30- Dec. 7
Seasonal stageworks, Vanderbilt Mansion holiday open house, elf hunt at Locust Grove
Renovated UPAC reopens under new ownership
The freshly renovated Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Midtown Kingston will reopen its doors this weekend after six months of construction. The 1,500-seat theater, which was built in 1927, was rescued from threatened demolition in the 1970s and added to the National Register of Historic Properties.
Jackie Greene to perform at Bearsville Theater
Friday, Dec. 1: The Bay Area native has thrown more than a few curveballs, but he is a serious top-tier modern roots ace.
“5 x 7 Show” in Woodstock
Preview party on Friday, Dec. 1: The five-by-seven-inch works were donated by Hudson Valley artists for the fundraiser and will be exhibited anonymously at Byrdcliffe’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts. Each is priced at $100. Given the art-world notables who regularly donate a work to the event – including Milton Glaser, Portia Munson, the Starn Twins and Joan Snyder – some buyers who purchase a piece for the love of art find out later that they made a good investment, too.