November Theatre Highlights

11/15 THROUGH 18: THE FOREIGNER, BY LARRY SHUE, At SUNNY ULSTER (UCCC) At STONE RIDGE- The Foreigner, a comedy by Obie Award-winner Larry Shue demonstrates what can happen when a group of people mistakenly believe they can speak without restraint around someone who doesn’t understand their language. Although the play is a comedy, it deals with a serious theme—what it means to be an outsider—with a light touch. Its appealing characters and happy ending have made it an audience favorite, suitable for the whole family. The Foreigner is the first production by Jerry Bradley, director of SUNY Ulster’s new Theater Arts Program. Rte.209, Stone Ridge, www.sunyulster.edu, Th-Sa 11/15,16,17 at 8 PM, Su 3 PM

FRI/SAT 11/23,24: KING CORN/ FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO at TIME AND SPACE LTD, HUDSON- Much is happening this month at TSL, with James Ivory (of Merchant/Ivory fame) in Conversation on Sa 11/10 (4 PM), and the Opera Gala, which funds the live hi-def TV feed from the Metropolitan Opera in NYC, Sa 11/17 (6 PM). But later in November, a pair of timely and nationally resonant documentaries should not be missed. King Corn (dir. By Aaron Wolf) is the story
of two college friends from the East Coast who go into the heartland, and with modern-day technical help grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain (corn, that is) on one acre of Iowa soil. When they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm. For The Bible Tells Me So (dir. by Dan Karslake) brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture, in the process reveals that Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based almost solely upon a significant (and often malicious) misinterpretation of the Bible. 434 Columbia St., www.timeandspace.org, 518.822.8448. King Corn: Fr 11/23, 7:30 PM, Sa 11/24, 6 PM; For The Bible Tells Me So: Sa11/24, 8 PM

SAT 11/18: MIKHAIL HOROWITZ AND GILLES MALKINE AT UNISON ARTS, NEW PALTZ- Though it’s a toss-up as to whether this should be in the Music Highlights or here, there’s plenty o’ theatricality in the “usual quota of acerbic political commentaries, unquotable poems, and skewed folk songs, joined by the usual complement of clueless musicians.” Claiming to have played their first gig at Unison “during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of the WPA’s Surrealism in Public Places Project,” Messrs. Horowitz and Gilles maintain an acerbic obscurity that should be briefly punctured again by their ever-popular annual Unison show. Sponsored by Chronogram. 68 Mountain Rest Rd., New Paltz, www.unisonarts.org, 845.255.1559, 8 PM