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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Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde's scintillating comedy presented by NYC's PHOENIX THEATRE ENSEMBLE outdoors at beautiful and lush Marydell as the season is changing. Formidable Lady Augusta Bracknell presides over her family arranging courtships for her renegade nephew, avoiding scandal and requesting cucumber sandwiches. Performances are Sat. 9/17, Friday,9/23, Saturday 9/24 and Sunday 9/25 all at 2:00 pm.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde's scintillating comedy presented by NYC's PHOENIX THEATRE ENSEMBLE outdoors at beautiful and lush Marydell as the season is changing. Formidable Lady Augusta Bracknell presides over her family arranging courtships for her renegade nephew, avoiding scandal and requesting cucumber sandwiches. Performances are Sat. 9/17, Friday,9/23, Saturday 9/24 and Sunday 9/25 all at 2:00 pm.
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: Autumn Serenades with Ellen Mandel & Jessica Crandall
First Reformed Church of Nyack, 18 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USAAn evening of music by celebrated composer Ellen Mandel sung by Jessica Crandall. Each of Mandel’s songs creates its own little world: this one’s a smoldering romance, that one’s all beauty and springtime, the next is dark and dangerous, next a song of flirtatious and witty wordplay, and then one that will break your heart.…
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…
Submit your local events to the Historic Hudson River Towns (will require admin approval upon submission).