Friday-Sunday, Nov. 30- Dec. 2: The Ulster Ballet Company decided to buck the Nutcracker trend 24 years ago and offer audiences an alternative, bringing to life in dance a timeless tale of how greed can stunt the human spirit.
Sunday, Nov. 25: The man who has accounted for over 350,000,000 YouTube views is also one of the few comedians to have sold out Madison Square Garden in New York and the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Friday, Nov. 30: The site was eventually awarded its own zip code as the town of North Pole, NY. It was small and quaint and sort of tacky, with a literal frozen pole as its centerpiece. But moles working for Walt Disney were drawn there to study up on how to create a themed tourist attraction, taking what they learned back to Anaheim.
Friday-Saturday, Nov. 16-17: Invasion of the swamp rats. Members of this furry caravan from South America grow up to 20 pounds apiece, reproduce faster than they can be hunted and are gnawing away at vegetation that helps protect the Louisiana shoreline from the impact of hurricanes.
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 16-18: Discreetly tucked in the Chestnut Street Historic District, where shipping baron Samuel D. Coykendall once reigned in splendor over the city’s booming waterfront, a building that once served as the coachhouse for the Coykendall estate became, in 1950, the permanent home of the longest-operating community theater company in Ulster County.
Saturday, Nov. 10: Brian Reed took a personal approach to the investigative reporting of an alleged murder in a small Alabama town.
Saturday, November 10: Michael Brownstein has written a handbook for change.
Friday, Nov. 2: Jeff Goldblum lays down some heavy science about the nature of nature while making an impressive pyramid with his achromachian fingers. And then all Hell breaks loose.
Friday, Nov. 2: The silent horror classic comes to new life, accompanied by the music of the jazz trombonist and composer Chris Washburne and his ensemble, Rags and Roots, with vocalist Brianna Thomas.
Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 3-4: Schneider and his collaborators invite the audience to look down, literally, into all-too-fleeting revelations, narratives and emotional interactions flooding our bodies and brains every second of every day. New York Times calls Schneider’s work inventive and astounding.