Category Archives: Theater
Bard SummerScape 2015: Music, Theater, Dance plus “Chavez and His World”
This summer marks an historic season for the annual Bard SummerScape festival. Turning for the first time to Latin America, Bard expands its horizons with eight weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, all keyed to the theme … Continue reading
The 34th Asbury Short Film Concert at The Rosendale Theatre
The extremely popular Asbury Shorts, New York City’s longest running short film exhibition, returns to the historic Rosendale Theatre on Saturday, June 6th with their nationally renowned: 34th Short Film Concert. Continue reading
“The Theory of Everything” At the Rosendale Theatre
Starring Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. … Continue reading
Award-Winning Musical RENT at SUNY New Paltz
The Department of Theatre Arts at SUNY New Paltz presents Jonathan Larson’s award-winning musical, “Rent”. The musical is directed by Jack Wade, chair and professor in the Department of Theatre Arts. “Rent” tells the story of a group of young artists … Continue reading
Burning Man: Prometheus of the Soul
A 10-story inferno erupts the desert sky, ignited by an orgiastic display of fireworks, washing a massive spasm of human flesh in a blaze of raw heat. Beaming smiles, teary faces, guttural roars and primal hoots accent the excitement of the moment … Continue reading
Natalie Portman, Jennifer Connelly and Darren Aronofsky at the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival
The Woodstock Film Festival has announced that Academy-Award winning actresses Jennifer Connelly and Natalie Portman will co-present the Honorary Maverick Award to director Darren Aronofsky at the 15th annual Maverick Awards Ceremony. Both of these esteemed actresses have played leading … Continue reading
Bard’s 2014 SummerScape: Rediscovering Schubert
Walter Pater defined Romanticism as “the addition of strangeness to beauty,” and the Romantic artist’s obsession with passion, poetic reverie, melancholia, and the mystical journey was never so achingly expressed as in the lieder of Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828). Schubert wrote … Continue reading
Othello: The Message Still Stings
The current Hudson Valley Shakespeare production of Othello is a tour de force. Infused in this bear of a play is a resurgent energy that feels raw and invigorating as it unveils the intricate kaleidoscope of human nature splintered by malicious intent. Expertly … Continue reading