March
Theatre & Cinema Highlights
3/7 through 3/30– MAN OF LA MANCHA at Center for Performing
Arts, Rhinebeck—“To dream the impossible dream…” Sounds
somehow right in an election year, doesn’t it? This perennially
popular musical version of the classic tale of Cervantes’ Don
Quixote is a play within a play set in sixteenth century Spain, with
Cervantes himself in a prison awaiting questioning by the Inquisition.
While waiting, he is put on trial by the other inmates who attempt
to destroy his manuscript, and must use his storytelling power (and
awesome singing voice) to defend himself. With book by Dale Wasserman,
music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion, this Up In One Production
features local favorites Andrew Weintraub, Lisa Lynds, Thomas Webb,
and Bill Ross, and is directed by Laurie Sepe Marder. Center for Performing
Arts, Rte. 308, Rhinebeck, www.centerforperformingarts.org, 845.876.3080.
Fr/Sa 8 PM, Su 3 PM
3/7 through 3/23– FAITH HEALER at Performing Arts of Woodstock,
Woodstock—In four monologues delivered by three actors, Brian
Friel (author of DANCING AT LUGHNASA) offers a gripping analysis of
the bewildering nature of the gift of the artist, as well as the mystery
of the human gift of healing. FAITH HEALER is the unforgiving and exalting
tale of Frank, an itinerant and erratic healer of the sick, his lover
Grace, and his manager, Teddy, and explores the sometimes malleable
nature of truth. Directed by Eric Jagoda, and featuring Michael DaTorre,
Linda Reznick, and Giles W. Kelder. Performing Arts of Woodstock, Woodstock
Town Hall, 76 Tinker St., Woodstock, www.performingartsofwoodstock.org,
845.679.7900. Fr/Sa 8 PM; Su 4 PM
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