His show, while constantly reinforcing messages that helped children feel secure and loved and valuable, was anything but “safe.”

Friday-Sunday, July 6-8: A gravity-defying, family-friendly performance by the Brooklyn-based company known as the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, a/k/a SLAM or just Streb.

Four Quartets is the first authorized dance performance ever to be based on T. S. Eliot’s career-crowning work.

Saturday, July 7: The audience follows the performers around Opus 40 during the “Scottish play,’’ and the scenes take on different auras as they move through different parts of Harvey Fite’s sculpture.

Friday-Sunday, June 29-July 1: Lumberyard’s Under Construction Summer Festival begins with Urban Bush Women musical at Helsinki Hudson

Saturday, June 30: Gal Gadot is just about perfect in the title role, and Chris Pine as Steve Trevor holds up his end of the romantic angle with persuasively raffish charm. 

Most of The Seagull was shot at Arrow Park in Monroe. The lodge perched above the lake there, an Italianate villa with Arts and Crafts Movement touches, was built in 1909. Nowadays, more than half of the surrounding 600 undeveloped acres have become part of the permanently protected Sterling Forest preserve.

June 22–July 29: Who knew, back in the summer of 2013, that the new musical (then known as The Hamilton Mixtapes) that upstart hip-hop composer Lin-Manuel Miranda was workshopping on the Vassar College campus would soon become Broadway’s biggest hit, with ticket prices spiraling into the stratosphere? Powerhouse Theater has a track record as a stage-monster incubator too impressive to discount lightly.

Sunday, June 24: The Rosendale Theatre presents a National Theatre Live performance of Yerma, Simon Stone’s radical reworking of García Lorca’s masterpiece about a young woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.