Bearing witness to the unbearable in Newtown
During the opening of Kim Snyder’s documentary Newtown, faint playground sounds hover at the edge of hearing. A roving camera
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Mind over mound: Beckett’s Happy Days in Woodstock
“Cast your mind forward, Winnie, to the time when words must fail.” Don’t pity Winnie. Even though she is immovably
Girls, interrupted: Opera about abandoned Bennett College
It stands hollow and empty now, a moldering shell of its luxurious former self. Its impregnable-looking stone exterior has lost
In space, no one can hear you explode
It didn’t have an ample budget for art direction or special effects. Alien landscapes and monster costumes often looked cheap
Bard screens Visconti masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers
Before he started directing films, Luchino Visconti was a stage and opera director, and it shows onscreen. Roger Ebert called
Sunset Boulevard on stage in Rhinebeck
Made in 1950 at the tail end of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard made the movie industry squirm,
The Wolves & A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at Powerhouse
Last year, in honor of recently deceased actor extraordinaire Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the American Playwriting Foundation inaugurated a competition called
March in the Parade premieres at Rosendale Theatre
Over the past eight years, as High Falls-based author/arts administrator Edward Versailles has been tweaking March in the Parade: A
Phantasmic four
As a Baby Boomer, I can’t truthfully say that the original Ghostbusters movie was a precious icon of my coming-of-age
Wellspring of creativity at Mount Tremper Arts
Since its founding in 2008, the Summer Festival at Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) has been making quite a name for