Kaatsbaan kicks off its season with Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Sunday, Mar. 24: Under artistic director Alberto Lopez, Calpulli brings a new work-in-progress, Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo, which will be followed by a post-show discussion.
Stage & Screen
Asperger’s Are Us comedy troupe at BSP
Friday, Mar. 15: “Their show is not an autism awareness campaign, they say. They want people to laugh simply because they’re funny.”
Cinematic beauty: Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is worth the hunt for a big-screen showing
Is Roma worth the effort to find? Absolutely yes. Its huge pile of cinematography prizes is well-warranted; shot in digital 65mm format, its black-and-white tones are subtle, silken. It tells much of its story in long, unbroken tracking shots, with the camera often slowly rotating 360 degrees to take in all the sprawling details of a space.
SUNY-New Paltz revives Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Thursday- Sunday, Mar. 7-10: One need not be either “colored” or a “girl” to be profoundly affected by this extraordinary, transformative work of theater.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World warms the heart, dazzles the eye
I never thought I’d be caught admitting that a movie series is markedly better than the books upon which it is based, but here we have it.
Denizen Theatre in New Paltz brings sense of surprise to new season
A play about mental illness directed by the TMI project’s Eva Tenuto and a one-person play that the actor is forbidden ever to have read or seen prior to getting onstage to perform it are two of the dramatic treats in store at New Paltz’s Denizen Theatre in 2019.
Crybabies podcast tapes live at Bard’s Fisher Center
Saturday, Mar. 2: It’s an imaginative notion for an interview show dreamed up by actress Sarah Thyre and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean. Sometimes the hosts as well as the guests end up weeping on-air – even when the tear-inducing event shared is something as silly as a TV commercial.
Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration, comes to Upstate Films in Woodstock
Saturday, Mar. 2: When Joni Mitchell turned 75, her literal hordes of indebted admirers and peers, famous in their own right, showed up to pay tribute to her astounding musical and cultural achievements. The whole affair was captured on film.
DanceFest at Rondout High
Saturday, Mar. 2: The annual showcase features a dozen companies and many different styles of dance.
Everything is less awesome in Lego Movie 2
The original Lego Movie didn’t merely milk consumer interest in the parent product; it brazenly mocked its own brand and passive consumerism as an approach to living. Alas, much of the charm of the original has been lost in its sequel.