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Carole Kane directs Geraldine Hughes in Belfast Blues at SUNY-New Paltz this weekend

Carole Kane directs Geraldine Hughes in Belfast Blues at SUNY-New Paltz this weekend

What’s particularly intriguing about this production of Belfast Blues is the director: the iconic character actress Carol Kane. TV fans know her as Simka on Taxi and as Lillian on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; moviegoers may recall her Oscar-nominated starring role in Hester Street or her smaller parts in Annie Hall or Dog Day Afternoon, or her unforgettable turn as Valerie, the wildhaired, wild-eyed harridan wife of Billy Crystal’s Miracle Max in The Princess Bride.

Book Review: The Fall Guy

Book Review: The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy is a thriller that belongs on the literary top shelf with Graham Greene and Charles McCarry, a thriller in the way Henry James’s “The Turn Of The Screw” is a ghost story. The thrills it offers are those of narrative and philosophy.

A solo reanimation of Frankenstein in Catskill

A solo reanimation of Frankenstein in Catskill

It’s a singular adaptation — “Singular,” because this version is written for one actor, who plays Victor, the Creature and six other characters over the course of an hour and 45 minutes. The actor who will dare this literal and figurative monster of a role is Steven Patterson, associate director of Bridge Street Theatre.