Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 11-15: This “independently fierce” cinematic juggernaut will feature four world premieres, five North American premieres, one US premiere, 20 East Coast premieres and 10 New York premieres. There will be screenings in Woodstock, Kingston, Rhinebeck, Saugerties and Rosendale and you can get your tickets now.

Opening this week: Tangent held a pub reading of the play last year, which proved to be one of its most popular to date. “The audience reaction was so strong… With so much conflict in the world today, this play will get people thinking about life, love, fate and consequences.”

Saturday, Sept. 23: The difficulties of working with film “create a sense of performance, of danger and the possibility of loss.”

Lumberyard purchased four buildings – part of a former lumberyard – on the Catskill Creek waterfront, and in November will begin construction of a 5,500-square-foot theater in the cinderblock shell of a former garage. The theater, whose construction is being funded in part by a $5 million loan from RSF Social Finance (in addition to an Empire State Development grant and other sources), will be used to preview shows created by resident artists in the summer, which will open in New York City during the fall.

Saturday, Sept. 23: The event at T.R. Gallo Waterfront Park will include screenings of clips from current films in progress, all of them about the city and its characters, including Kingston’s Model Train Club, recently deceased musician Pauline Oliveros, the emerging Midtown Arts District, local personality Uncle Willy, boxer Billy Costello and more.

In a poignant turn, Upstate Films in Rhinebeck had scheduled its sneak-peak viewing of Lucky, a new documentary about the beloved actor Harry Dean Stanton, well before the eccentric film-industry outsider passed away last week.

Friday-Saturday, Sept. 22-23: Lisa Channer, who grew up in New Paltz in the 1970s in a household that was a sort of hippie arts salon, experienced an epiphany in her mid-teens as a result of reading Isadora Duncan’s autobiography. It changed her path and her life. Now she’s portraying Duncan in Dancing on the Edge, a new drama by much-anthologized playwright Adam Kraar about the brief, stormy marriage of the “mother of modern dance” to Russian Imaginist poet Sergei Esenin in the early 1920s.