Saturday, May 19: The artistic duo works in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future or what Art + Design has described as “cautionary mythology.”
The Phoenicia Playhouse takes on Moon Over Buffalo from May 4 through 20, Fridays through Sundays, with direction by the theater’s artistic director Michael Koegel.
Saturday-Sunday, May 12-13: The dance is a feminist tour de force meant to remind the world of the contributions of two Latina powerhouses of centuries past.
Wednesday, May 2: Benjamin’s new overtly self-effacing first book, Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir is a detailed litany of failure and, ultimately, a defense of it: an “apology” in the old sense of the word.
Sunday, April 29: Known in certain quarters as “the Bitter Buddha,” Eddie Pepitone blends social rage and self-flagellation to brilliant comedic effect.
Saturday-Sunday, April 28-29: The top level of the American Ballet Theatre training ladder, the ABT Studio Company is a classical ensemble made up of 12 dancers of outstanding potential. All performances take place in the Kaatsbaan black-box theater, which has 160 seats, with a performance floor the size of the stage at the Metropolitan Opera.
Friday-Sunday, April 27-29: Ever wonder how Donald Trump might end up if his more ambitious offspring turned against him in his old age? Consider this adaptation of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear that’s currently being presented at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.
Tuesday, May 1: This year’s Human Rights Film presentation includes America; I Too and The Resettled.
The breakthrough movie to put the Hudson Valley on the map is John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, which was filmed at recognizable locations – a farmhouse in Pawling, a market in Beacon, the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail bridge in New Paltz.
Saturday, April 21: Lowell Thomas (1892-1981), who long made his home in Pawling, was a pioneer broadcaster, journalist, lecturer, author, globetrotter, raconteur and media technology innovator.