The Arsonists on stage at Denizen Theatre
Wednesday-Saturday, Jan. 31-Feb. 24: New Paltz’s new black-box performance space in the Water Street Market concludes its inaugural season with a regional premiere by Jacqueline Goldfinger.
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Mary Stuart Masterson directs The Face of It at SUNY-Ulster
Saturday, Feb. 2: These three one-act plays about identity were written by Jeremy Davidson and based on conversations with Hudson Valley residents.
UPAC to host two shows with comics John Mulaney and Pete Davidson in Kingston
The Bardavon presents a night of big-time comedy with John Mulaney and Pete Davidson on Sunday, February 10 at 7 p.m. and then again at 10 p.m. at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston.
NASA’s chief scientist to talk about the Moon in Poughkeepsie
Wednesday, January 30: Vassar Brothers science lecture series to examine the Moon, Lyme disease & penguins.
Barry Jenkins does full justice to James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk
“If you trusted love this far, trust it all the way.” The author’s faith in his message, and Jenkins’ skill in bringing it to the screen, keep a story that is downbeat in its particulars upbeat in its ultimate tone.
On the Basis of Sex delivers mildly inspiring look at RBG’s early career
I wish I could muster up as much enthusiasm for this movie as I feel for its subject.
The Madness of George III screens at Upstate and Downing
Sunday, Jan. 20 and Monday, Jan. 21: The cast of this new production of the Alan Bennett play includes Olivier Award-winners Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Wolf Hall, Coriolanus) in the title role, and Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, Upstairs Downstairs, After the Dance).
Film tribute to ski documentarian Warren Miller in Phoenicia
Friday-Sunday, January 18-20: Just after World War II, before skiing became a trendy and accessible sport in the US, a young man named Warren Miller, fresh out of the Navy, headed off to Sun Valley armed with an eight-millimeter movie camera and began documenting skiers in their element.
A couple of queens
Saoirse Ronan is incandescent as Mary Queen of Scots; Weisz & Stone are dazzlingly nasty in The Favourite.
Doors Live at the Bowl ’68 at Rosendale Theatre
Wednesday, Jan. 16: The historic performance has been painstakingly restored, using original camera negatives. The audio was remixed and mastered from original multitracks by the group’s engineer, Bruce Botnick.