Sunday, May 20: One of the first representations of the anti-Semitism of Russia, The Yellow Ticket was nearly destroyed by Nazis. After a copy was recovered in Berlin, the Washington Jewish Music Festival asked Alicia Svigals to compose a new score to accompany the film.
Friday-Sunday, May 18-20: The dialogue remains as fresh and funny and snappy as ever, the songs as sprightly and singable.
May 11 to 17: Consisting of screenings of four documentary films and a movie-in-progress, a live tribute concert and a lecture-and-film-clips combo, all but one of the offerings are loosely united under the rubric of “art made in the Hudson Valley.”
Saturday, May 19: The artistic duo works in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future or what Art + Design has described as “cautionary mythology.”
If you’ve been there, you’ll be grateful to see the postpartum ordeal depicted so grittily and grungily. The film still manages to qualify as a comedy, but without glossing anything over with unearned cuteness.
Saturday-Sunday, May 12-13: The dance is a feminist tour de force meant to remind the world of the contributions of two Latina powerhouses of centuries past.
Wednesday, May 2: Benjamin’s new overtly self-effacing first book, Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir is a detailed litany of failure and, ultimately, a defense of it: an “apology” in the old sense of the word.
Sunday, April 29: Known in certain quarters as “the Bitter Buddha,” Eddie Pepitone blends social rage and self-flagellation to brilliant comedic effect.
Saturday-Sunday, April 28-29: The top level of the American Ballet Theatre training ladder, the ABT Studio Company is a classical ensemble made up of 12 dancers of outstanding potential. All performances take place in the Kaatsbaan black-box theater, which has 160 seats, with a performance floor the size of the stage at the Metropolitan Opera.
Friday-Sunday, April 27-29: Ever wonder how Donald Trump might end up if his more ambitious offspring turned against him in his old age? Consider this adaptation of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear that’s currently being presented at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.