Catch 18 performances is four days at Phoenicia Festival of the Voice
The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, “the little festival that could,” was founded in 2009 by a group of
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Kids’ Almanac (Aug. 4-11)
“August is like the Sunday of summer.” Super day trip: Iroquois Indian Museum/Secret Caverns Here’s a day trip I
Phoenicia Festival of the Voice to spotlight Shakespeare
It started in 2009 as a concert by three locally based opera singers to raise money for a playground in
Will it rain?
Last week we explored the statistical probabilities of global destruction and winning the lottery. Let’s now make it a two-parter
In space, no one can hear you explode
It didn’t have an ample budget for art direction or special effects. Alien landscapes and monster costumes often looked cheap
Ulster County Fair in New Paltz
The venerable Ulster County Fair has returned to the Ulster County Fairgrounds, just west of New Paltz. It offers all
Bard screens Visconti masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers
Before he started directing films, Luchino Visconti was a stage and opera director, and it shows onscreen. Roger Ebert called
Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Bard
The great Wynton Marsalis’ upstate residency culminates with a performance by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Saturday, July
Heart, Cheap Trick & Joan Jett at Bethel Woods
It is a dubbed a “three-for-all”: the teaming of ex-Runaway and ‘70s/’80s rock pioneer Joan Jett & the Blackhearts with
Secret City “art church” comes to Bearsville
“Religious art” is a term that calls to mind everything from elaborate temples and grand cathedrals with frescoed ceilings to