Susan Sarandon is Film Fest’s Maverick Award Recipient
Iconic actor and producer Susan Sarandon was announced this week as the Woodstock Film Festival’s honorary Maverick Award recipient.
Stage & Screen
Alex Smith film screens at Upstate Woodstock
The Woodstock Film Festival will present a special screening of Woodstock-edited film Walking Out on Saturday, August 12 at 2 p.m. at Upstate Films Woodstock. Thirty years in the making, it’s based on a short story about a father-son hunting trip.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power rekindles hope in dark environmental times
Al Gore goes beyond the slideshow and visits parts of the world already suffering effects of climate change. Though the recent political news has not been encouraging for environmentalists, the film finds hope in the growth of cost-effective renewable energy.
Phoenicia Playhouse will raise money through art and yoga
Part fundraiser, part community ritual, a Yoga Mala will be held by Catskills Yoga House in Chichester on Saturday, August 12, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Debbie Lan’s pop opera On a Midsummer’s Night premieres in Rosendale
Friday-Saturday, July 28-29: “I’d walk around on campus and hear the kids singing the songs on the playground, and I thought, ‘Wow, they’re singing Shakespeare! Twelve-year-olds in sixth grade!’ “So I went back to the script, and in reading it I saw there was music everywhere.”
Woodstock Comedy Fest July 29 fundraiser features Jimmy Roberts
The Woodstock Comedy Festival will introduce cabaret into its repertoire in a fundraising event preceding the fifth annual festival. Cabaret…Classics…Comedy! will take place at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 29 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, and will star composer and comic Jimmy Roberts, accompanied by “King Clarinet” Felix Peikli.
East meets West, with complications, in The Big Sick
The Big Sick is a rom/com that’s sweet and funny but complex and smart. It stars Kumail Nanjiani, best-known as a regular on Silicon Valley.
Kyra Sedgwick makes her directorial debut in Woodstock
Saturday, July 15: The film will be shown here for the first time, before its official television premiere on the Lifetime network. The director’s husband, actor Kevin Bacon, stars in the film.
Voice Theatre performs The Skin of Our Teeth at Byrdcliffe
Next two weekends: On the surface, The Skin of Our Teeth couldn’t seem more different from the Thornton Wilder piece that everybody knows: the universally produced Our Town. It was written as a spark of absurd hope amidst the despair of World War II, but takes on new layers of meaning whenever troubled times roll around.
Wooster Group’s A Pink Chair at Bard Summerscape
Through July 23: Downtown Manhattan’s longest-running and most accomplished experimental theater ensemble pays a 100th-birthday tribute to the trailblazing “Theater of Death” director Tadeusz Kantor.