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.
Stage & Screen
Prickly genius pines for meaningful work in Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Bernadette Fox, the protagonist of Maria Semple’s satirical 2012 epistolary novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette and of Richard Linklater’s new movie based on it, is seriously suffering the effects of a dream deferred.
Upstate Films to screen Thelma and Louise outdoors at Greig Farm on Saturday
Upstate Films will screen Thelma and Louise outdoors at Greig Farm in Red Hook on Saturday, August 24 at dusk.
Choreography on the Edge returns to Byrdcliffe
Choreography on the Edge is a consistently innovative program aimed at giving professional choreographers and dancers a chance to experiment and push their boundaries. Performances started last weekend with some chestnuts from past works and continue Friday, August 16 through Sunday, August 18 with an array of new works by local choreographers Andrea Pastorella, Laura Ward, Julie Manna, Rebecca Frank, Jai Mason, Jess Lewis and Jocelyne Danchick.
Meek evokes a chilling misogynist dystopia at Denizen Theatre
If this sounds a lot like Gilead, the world of Margaret Atwood’s groundbreaking 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale and its current hit Hulu TV series, you’re right.
Free Aquaman screening at Kingston Point Park
Friday, August 16: Aquaman is a throwback to the days when comic-book characters and situations were uncomplicated, wholesome, earnest, unironic… And yet we find ourselves invested in Aquaman/Arthur Curry’s reluctant quest to save Earth’s surface from the Atlanteans and the Atlanteans from themselves.
Saugerties lighthouse is the focus of Arm-of-the-Sea’s Esopus Creek Puppet Suite
Friday-Sunday, Aug. 16-18: The Tina Chorvas Park performance is adjacent to the site of what will be Arm-of-the-Sea’s permanent home. When completed, the Tidewater Center for Hudson River Arts and Science will be include a 100-seat outdoor amphitheatre and facilities for river-related programs. Built on a neglected, much-graffitied industrial site on the Esopus Creek, once home to the circa-1880 Sheffield Paper Company, the Tidewater Center will also feature a waterworks playground.
Outdoor screenings of Dirty Dancing at Hasbrouck House, Captain Marvel under the Walkway
Saturday, August 10: Besides outdoor theater, our region also hosts several summer film series to which the general public is invited free of charge, with other attractions such as live music and food vendors typically on hand as well.
Chinese-American relearns to appreciate her roots in sublime The Farewell
The Farewell is strongly autobiographical, evolving out of a memoir that Wang first iterated as a segment on the NPR radio program This American Life. The Farewell is a lightly fictionalized version of that story, starring the rapper/actress Awkwafina (Ocean’s 8, Crazy Rich Asians) as Billi, Wang’s alter ego.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival delivers zesty five-actor Cyrano
Aug. 6-30: Cyrano is a truly larger-than-life character. Go make his acquaintance this summer in the theater tent perched above the finest view in the Hudson Highlands at Boscobel House and Gardens.