Sevan Melikyan shapes the future legacy of Ulster County artists at his Wired Gallery in High Falls
In the seven years since Sevan Melikyan opened Wired Gallery in High Falls, he’s become known in these parts as
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Check out Phoenicia Library’s collection of fly-fishing info
The Phoenicia Library is home to the Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection, an impressive inventory of books about fishing and fly-tying. “It could be hyperbole, but we like to say we have the largest circulating collection in the Northeast,” says Library Board member Beth Waterman.
Unison Arts Center opens year-long exhibit in sculpture garden
Unison Arts Center has mounted a year-long exhibition designed to disappear on its own. “Composed to Decompose,” the 21st annual show to be featured in the art center sculpture garden, opened Sunday, July 21 and will remain on view through July 2020.
Denizen pushes the theatrical envelope with White Rabbit Red Rabbit
There isn’t much more detail in which a reviewer of White Rabbit Red Rabbit can indulge without spoiling its content. It is structured to be performed as a “cold reading” by a different actor every night – an actor who has neither read the script nor ever seen a performance of the play. Thousands of actors have risen to the challenge over the past decade, some of them quite famous, and not every one has relished such a raw experience of “winging it.” There’s some room for improv built into the script, but mostly it requires a close and exact reading. Following the author’s instructions to the letter is essential to the message he’s trying to convey.
Bard SummerScape presents US premiere of Korngold opera The Miracle of Heliane
July 26-Aug.4: An allegorical tale about the destruction of a dictatorship by a woman, with a libretto by Hans Müller-Einigen inspired by an Expressionist mystery play by Hans Kaltneker, The Miracle of Heliane is set in an unnamed totalitarian state where an intricate erotic triangle develops among a ruthless despot, the Ruler; his beautiful wife Heliane, with whom he has yet to consummate his marriage; and a young, messianic Stranger.
Rosendale Theatre hosts Short Play Festival
When the call for original short plays went out, the Theatre received 49 submissions and selected ten. These are fully staged productions, not mere readings, and are collectively dubbed “The Love/ Death Plays.”
Shandaken Studio Tour has surprises
A dozen sites and regional group shows highlight art filled weekend.
Woodstock Shakespeare Festival’s Pericles opens July 26
Mounting some of the Bard’s more obscure, rarely seen plays seems to be trending among our region’s purveyors of summertime Shakespeare. The latest to jump on the repertoire-expansion bandwagon is the Bird-on-a-Cliff Theatre Company, whose offering for this 24th season of the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival is a true outlier: Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
Maiden’s all-female crew breaks boundaries in the male-dominated sport of yacht racing
On rare occasions, a documentary film tells a story so engaging at the heart level that it could have been a folk song. In the case of Alex Holmes’ Maiden — currently screening at Upstate Films, and coming to the Rosendale Theatre August 9 — it’s a variant on the classic tale of a bold English lass who runs away to sea to escape a wicked stepparent. Only this time, instead of cutting off her lovely locks and disguising herself as a cabin boy, this “female rambling sailor” acquires her own ship and recruits a whole crew of similarly adventurous young women to beat the lads at their own game.
African-American culture celebrated at Phoenicia Festival of the Voice
Aug. 2-4: This year’s Festival will host internationally acclaimed performers and composers in a series of open-air summer concerts at seven venues conveniently within walking distance.