Traveler with baggage: Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore square off con brio in After the Wedding
After the Wedding is an emotional rollercoaster, its rapid-fire plot twists accelerating the closer it draws to its climax.
Entertainment
Woodstock Museum Film Festival returns with free films & the theme “Important”
Tuesday-Monday, Aug. 27-Sept. 2: All the film entries are independently produced, and most advance progressive or countercultural points of view. Participating filmmakers, many of them multiple award-winners, come from all over the world; some will be in attendance for talkbacks with the audience.
On the High Wire with Philippe Petit
Saturday, Aug. 31: For the first time, the audience will be invited to follow one of the master aerialist’s private daily practice sessions on the tightrope.
Flying Lotus performs at MASS MoCA
Saturday, Aug. 31: Rapturous, borderline-messianic praise for hip-hop auteur Flying Lotus flows as freely as it once did for his great-aunt and -uncle, Alice and John Coltrane, and for many of the same reasons.
Maverick welcomes Trio Solisti
Sunday, September 1: The New Yorker declared Trio Solisti “the most exciting piano trio in America,” and this writer regards their 2005 recording of Brahms’ three trios to be among the most sensitive he has heard, thanks largely to pianist Fabio Bidini’s grace under pressure (Brahms is murder on pianists).
Ashokan Center hosts Poetry Barn’s Catskill LIT festival
Monday-Thursday, Sept. 2-5: Poets, songwriters, prose stylists and storytellers will take over Ashokan’s inspirational 300-acre campus nestled amidst waterfalls, meadows and streams.
Joshua Redman Quartet to revisit MoodSwing at the Falcon
Saturday, Sept. 7: Even by the Falcon’s lofty standards, this is a big one: The region’s premiere jazz-and-more venue presents MoodSwing Reunion, saxophonist Joshua Redman revisiting his landmark 1994 album with the quartet who made it, all of whom – to a man – a have gone on to become legitimate jazz superstars and generation-defining musicians and composers: drummer Brian Blade, bassist Christian McBride and pianist Brad Mehldau.
Donna Lewis sings to the pain of immigrant families
“You feel things deeply from music,” Lewis said. “This music does that.”
Stewart hosts NY International Air Show this weekend
Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 24-25: Headliners include many of the world’s top military and civilian airshow performers, such as the US Navy Blue Angels, Royal Air Force Red Arrows and F-35 Lightning II Demo Team.
CMS Legacy Ensemble to perform at Maverick
CMS Legacy Ensemble will perform a rare concert at Maverick Concert Hall on Saturday, August 31, at 8 p.m., honoring jazz great Ornette Coleman, who collaborated in the founding of CMS in the 1970s.