Theatre group 90 Miles Off Broadway returns as 90 Miles Theatre Company
90 Miles is dead; long live 90 Miles!
Stage & Screen
Rachel Weisz delivers a multilayered black widow in My Cousin Rachel
Notably generous with atmosphere but parsimonious with explanations for characters’ behavior, Daphne du Maurier’s stories have proven irresistible candy to movie directors – thrice to Alfred Hitchcock alone.
Art-in-the-making at Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater
Opens June 23: Before it became a world-wide sensation, there was a reading of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton at Vassar. Hamilton went on to win Best Musical and ten other Tonys in its Broadway incarnation.
Plague ravages morally as well as physically in It Comes at Night
Almost all of this film was shot inside and immediately outside one of Woodstock’s uninhabited Byrdcliffe houses.
Wonder Woman delivers a worthy superheroine, but doesn’t dazzle
I wanted Wonder Woman to be better than it is. It’s still pretty damned exciting. Go see it by all means, and if you or your friends have daughters, bring them along.
Performing Arts of Woodstock presents offbeat comedy Still
Opening June 2: A comedy about a still-born baby — starring the baby. Let’s see how Performing Arts of Woodstock (PAW) pulls this one off!
Upstate Films screens Documented in Rhinebeck
Saturday, June 3: In 2011, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist José Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in an essay published in The New York Times Magazine. The autobiographical documentary film will be followed by a panel discussion.
Shandaken Theatrical Society begins capital campaign with big plans
With a mix of businesspeople and former theater professionals now on the board of directors, Phoenicia’s STS Playhouse is contemplating a new direction for the historic community theater.
Colony in Woodstock to screen Carnival of Souls with accompaniment
Friday, May 26: Experimental musician and producer Matthew Cullen brings his unique electronic improvisation to the Hudson Valley with a live score to accompany the screening of the 1962 independent classic film.
A Quiet Passion unflinchingly renders the inward quest of Emily Dickinson
The film keeps its focus on the woman herself, and on the apotheosis of her art as loss and suffering hone her core down to diamond hardness of mind and ineffable permeability of spirit.