Welcome to the Historic Hudson River Towns Events Calendar!
Organizations in Historic Hudson River Towns member communities are welcome to post events here free of charge. Events must be open to the public, with or without admission fees. Historic Hudson River Towns reserves the right to reject any event that is considered inappropriate for any reason. Please allow up to 24 hours after submission for event to be listed.
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Theater
PHOENIX FESTIVAL: Dostoyevsky’s CRIME and PUNISHMENT
The Nyack Center 58 Depew Ave, NyackDostoyevsky's CRIME and PUNISHMENT: Thu Sep 28, 2023 - Sun Oct 1, 2023 @ 7:30pm For modern audiences, imagine a 19th century Tony Soprano named Raskolnikov who fancies himself above the law - entitled to such an extent that he may decide who is worthy of life and of death. But that all ends when…
Scandalton
MAUREEN’S JAZZ CELLAR, 2 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United StatesFull Festival Dates: September 28 – October 21 Get Tickets for Scandalton, Conceived and directed by Leo Lion October 4, 2023 @7pm MAUREEN'S JAZZ CELLAR 2 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960 Ever wanted courtside seats to a courtship? Welcome to Scandalton, a regency roleplaying show, where all-star storytellers improvise an original period piece before your…
Ichabod (An Immersive Theatrical Experience)
Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY, United StatesIchabod An immersive theatrical experience by Meghan Covington Directed by Jessica Irons You are invited to go back in time to the 1950s, to the night of our high school Harvest Hop. There you can drink the punch, dance, and enjoy, but please do not disturb lingering spirits who roam the halls. Follow some familiar…
Clybourne Park
Elmwood Playhouse,10 Park St, Nyack, NY 10960, USAIn this powerful play, social and personal tensions simmer behind closed doors in a Chicago neighborhood on the brink of change. Clybourne Park is a witty and provocative examination of race, real estate, and community transformation, in two acts set fifty years apart. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for…
Wine from Mud: A Dance Performance by Emotions Physical Theatre
Rockland Center For the Arts, 27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY 10994, USARockland Center for the Arts (RoCA) presents Wine from Mud: A Dance Performance by Emotions Physical Theatre - Friday, June 14 & Saturday, June 15, 2024. 7PM. Dance performance features an organic blend of contemporary dance with hip hop, ballet, gymnastics and breakdance. Tickets on sale! Visit www.rocklandartcenter.org.
Phoenix Festival: A Trojan Woman by Sara Farrington
Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack, NY 10960, USAIn a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Israel? Gaza? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Congo? Tigray? Sudan?)A mother loses her child. In her moment of tragic realization, she becomes a Trojan woman, performing every iconic character in Euripides’ original play, The Trojan Women. A new, solo version of the world’s first anti-war play, originally performed in…
Phoenix Festival: Boy My Greatness by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack, NY 10960, USAWhat happened to the boys who played Shakespeare's women? At the Globe Theater in the summer of 1606, six boy players warm up, run lines, gossip, and fall in and out of love all in between rehearsals for the premieres of Antony and Cleopatra and Twelfth Night. As the plague and rising religious conservatism threaten…
Phoenix Festival: NURSE! by Ayun Halliday
Studio 101,48 Burd St, Nyack, NY 10960, USAThink you know everything about literature's most star-crossed lovers? Well, buckle up! Juliet’s Nurse hits the road to leverage her eyewitness observations and correct the record on "the greatest love story ever told". Inspired by actress / Brooklyn Theater fire survivor Kate Claxton's historic lecture tour, NURSE! is a comic meditation on love, death, aging,…
Phoenix Festival: A New Play is Improvised LIVE in OUT OF THE HAT
Nyack Center,58 Depew Avenue, Nyack, NY 10960, USAOUT OF THE HAT features Phoenix Theatre Ensemble company members at their finest as they execute the unpredictable feat of improvising a brand new play, sight unseen. The audience goes along for a wild and often riotous ride! Playwrights Tom Dudzick, Christopher Kyle, Shawn Rawls and Julie M. Goldberg were commissioned to each write a new…
Phoenix Festival: The Portable Dorothy Parker by Annie Lux
Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United StatesThe year is 1943; the place, a hotel apartment in New York City. Dorothy Parker, famed for her wit and her presence at the legendary Algonquin Round Table--sorts through her works, looking back on her life: her many loves and heartbreaks, her famous friends (Lillian Hellman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), the wits of the…
Phoenix Festival: Vita & Virginia by Eileen Atkins
Big Red Books Main Street, Nyack, New York, United StatesVirginia Woolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. They embark on a 20-year relationship that inspires one of Virginia's most famous novels, Orlando. Vita and Virginia deftly brings to life the real letters and diaries of the two women, revealing the deep friendship, wit and passion between them. Directed by Craig…
Stephen Sondheim: An Afternoon of Song and Story
Shames JCC on the Hudson South Broadway, Tarrytown, New York, United StatesBroadway comes to The Ark in Tarrytown on Nov. 17, as Westchester’s newest performance venue hosts The Golden Ticket Series’ “Stephen Sondheim: An Afternoon of Song and Story.” Broadway Legend Jack Viertel delves into the history and song writing background of acclaimed lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim, while a live orchestra and a quartet of professional singers…
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