Learn about Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
Friday, Nov. 9: Theater piece at Vassar library in Poughkeepsie to honor first woman to obtain a doctorate.
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Black box, bright lights: An impressive new theater in downtown New Paltz
Wednesdays through Sundays until November 4: If its inaugural production, William Francis Hoffman’s Cal in Camo, is any indication of the level of professionalism that we can expect, Denizen Theatre seems likely to prove a magnet for drama buffs from near and far.
Wanda Sykes performs at UPAC
Friday, Oct. 26: Called “one of the funniest stand-up comics” by her peers and ranked among Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Funniest People in America
Colette sinks its teeth into the celebrated author’s stormy marriage
Henry Gauthier-Villars, a notoriously decadent Parisian author, music critic and bon vivant was Colette’s Svengali, locking her in a room and forcing her to write. His greatest commercial successes were the first four of her novels, the Claudine series, based on reminiscences of her girlhood but touted as his own writing. Only after their divorce was the actual author able to reclaim them under her own name.
Paul Rudd to headline Hudson Valley Votes at UPAC
Saturday, Oct. 20: An evening of music, performance and activism in Kingston with Natalie Merchant, Aaron Dessner of the National, Jack DeJohnette, Dar Williams, Mary Stuart Masterson, Paul Rudd, Lili Taylor, Eve Ensler and many more.
Emo Philips plays Kingston’s Beverly
Friday, Oct. 19: The comedian once described by Jay Leno as “the best joke writer in America” scored big in several films and television shows, memorably playing a table-saw demonstrator in the cult classic UHF and playing himself as a featured client in the popular Comedy Central cartoon Dr. Katz.
Twyla Tharp in Tannersville
Saturday, Oct. 20: Following a month-long residency at the Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, the iconic and iconoclastic modern dance choreographer and her dancers will stage a performance of two earlier works, plus works-in-progress.
Focus on women at the 19th Woodstock Film Fest
Wednesday-Sunday, October 10-14: This preview of WFF’s 2018 offerings (about half of them made by women, overall) focuses solely on works by female directors whose narratives explore relationships among women.
Brand-new blackbox theater opens in New Paltz plus October stage roundup
Oct. 11-Nov. 4: Stephen Nachamie will direct Denizen Theatre’s inaugural production, Cal in Camo. Dialectics & the dead on stage in Rhinebeck, Ellenville, Phoenicia and Kingston.
Hudson Valley Dance Festival at Catskill Point
Saturday, October 6: The festival will feature performances by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Washington Ballet and Wendy Whelan. The event is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS.