Starting Saturday, July 8 and continuing through the month, the Film Festival will be screening independent films Saturday evenings at Upstate Films on Tinker Street. The series will culminate in a benefit concert for the Festival by the Paul Green Rock Academy on Saturday, July 29 at The Lodge.
July 7-23: The musical comedy, based on the Adam Sandler film of the same name, has been called the Grease! of the 1980s and is chock-full of singing and dancing, along with period costumes and impersonations of 80s pop singers, from Cyndi Lauper to Boy George.
Friday-Sunday, July 7-9: Television star’s bittersweet comedy deals with the ramifications of a mushroom trip gone awry.
July-August: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival spins up a giddy Jane Austen classic. Amazingly, deliciously, it all works; but purists should consider themselves forewarned.
Friday-Saturday, July 7-8: You can see a pair of cultural icons on consecutive nights in the surreal environment of the traveling Weimar performance tent.
Through July 16: After opening the summer season with Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, Shadowland Stages in Ellenville now offer the New York premiere of The Jag, written years ago by Gino DiIorio but held up for practical reasons until now. Shadowland’s Brendan Burke explains that the acquisition of an actual Jaguar (the car, not the cat) was imperative to the production. There’s just no way this play could be done without the genuine article onstage.
Every white-knuckled swerve of the getaway car, every step or turn of an actor, every word or pause of dialogue is choreographed so exquisitely to the bouncy pop soundtrack that you will be awestruck.
Friday, June 30: New York City Ballet kicks off Bard’s seven-week, Chopin-themed festival.
Hollywood has a dreadful track record of trying to render hippies realistically, without condescension. This film is a welcome exception.
Tommy Joscelyn’s legs seem to bound forever. A tall guy, he’s got the build and sense of movement of a Ray Bolger or Tommy Tune, the singing chops of a young Astaire or Kelly. He opens the Woodstock Playhouse’s new season’s opening musical 42nd Street with aplomb, running the dancing line/chorus through its stage moves like the true Broadway professional he plays.