Bardavon to screen original Star Wars trilogy on Fathers’ Day
Sunday, June 16: The Star Wars Marathon will feature all three of the original series – that’s right, the ones almost nobody hated – back-to-back on its big screen in Poughkeepsie.
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Performing Arts of Woodstock’s The Weir
The Weir, to be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock (PAW) from May 30 through June 23 at Woodstock’s Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, takes its title from the word for a small dam constructed to divert the flow of water, symbolizing what happens in the play. Written by Conor McPherson and directed by Warren Kelder, the drama is set in a rural pub in Ireland in the 1990s.
Adam LeFevre’s Foreign Policy debuts at Unison in New Paltz
Saturday, May 25: This new play by the Ulster County-based actor, poet and playwright will be unveiled in a staged reading by his comrades at Actors and Writers. Foreign Policy is about a married couple who must negotiate the boundaries between themselves, their neighbors and the simplicities and subtleties of the real world. What are the limits of our good intentions?
Drive-in theater season returns to the Hudson Valley and Catskills
Warming weather means, among other things, the seasonal reopening of the mid-Hudson Valley’s remarkable riches in the form of drive-in movie theaters.
Civic Center hosts Marist Fashion’s Silver Needle Runway
Friday, May 10: Each year, the Marist Fashion Program’s event draws more than 2,000 guests, including industry professionals.
Opus 40 opens its busy season of performances, walks & workshops
May 10 to October 31: Harvey Fite, one of the founders of the Fine Arts Department at Bard College, spent time restoring Mayan ruins at Copán in Honduras while studying Mesoamerican indigenous sculpture, and in the process learned how to do dry-key stone masonry, a technique that uses gravity to create stable stone structures without mortar. In 1938 he purchased an abandoned quarry in High Woods as a source for bluestone to sculpt, and began to position some of his larger pieces in that outdoor setting.
Endgame wraps Avengers saga with solid, not transcendent entertainment
There are just too damn many superheroes onscreen at pretty much any given time for us to get immersed in the drama of any one of them. That will, of course, be some viewers’ definition of thrilling cinema.
Comedian Aziz Ansari comes to UPAC
Aziz Ansari will bring his “Road to Nowhere” tour to the Ulster Performing Arts Center May 13, Bardavon announced today.
Avengers: Endgame shot scenes in Ulster, Dutchess
Let’s say you’re not already burning to know if and how the surviving Avengers will manage to reverse some of the harm (killing half of the universe’s sentient beings with a snap of his magic-gauntleted fingers) wrought by big baddie Thanos at the end of last year’s Avengers: Infinity War. Would it motivate you at all to know that some of the epic footage (all shot in IMAX, by the way) was gleaned right here in the Hudson Valley?
NCG Kingston Cinema opens for business in the Hudson Valley Mall
The biggest new draw at the NCG Kingston Cinema is likely to be the “luxury seating.” Ticket prices are comparable to what they used to be at Regal, but for $2 more, your ticket entitles you to a deep, cushy recliner with elevating footrest, ample legroom and a little tray table that swivels out of the way.