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Free Solo at Rosendale Theatre

Free Solo at Rosendale Theatre

Friday-Thursday, Dec. 14-20: Check out this award-winning documentary film about Alex Honnold’s astonishing solo climb of Yosemite’s 3,000-foot-high El Capitán Freerider wall. With no ropes or safety gear, Honnold (who has also climbed at the Mohonk Preserve) completed one of the greatest feats in rock climbing history in just under four hours.

Wendy Whelan dances in The Day at Catskill’s Lumberyard

Wendy Whelan dances in The Day at Catskill’s Lumberyard

Friday/Saturday, Dec. 7/8: The Baryshnikov-lauded dancer and cellist Maya Beiser join forces with seminal modern dance choreographer Lucinda Childs to create The Day, an evening-length work with music by Pulitzer Prizewinning composer David Lang. This bold new work explores themes not easily grappled with – memory, aging, death, the survival of the soul.

Harry’s next act: Water St. Market developer revels in new stage of his career

Harry’s next act: Water St. Market developer revels in new stage of his career

Live theater, Lipstein said, can be subversive in a powerful and positive way. People enter a theater hoping merely to be entertained. But if a truthful moment happens, if the connection is made between what and who is onstage, people leave the theater feeling more empathetic, less encumbered by those personas, than when they entered. You can see the world premiere of Hannah Benitez’s Adaptive Radiation at the new Denizen Theatre in New Paltz on Wednesdays-Saturdays, December 6-30.