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Jay Blotcher talks with Carleton Mabee about his biography of Father Divine, Promised Land, in which the Pulitzer-prize winning historian chronicles the life of the messianic black preacher who established a number of religious communities in Ulster County in the first part of the 20th century.
Jay Blotcher reviews All Hopped Up and Ready to Go by Tony Fletcher.
Oren Moverman’s The Messenger opens the Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday, October 1.
Jay Blotcher speaks to Peter Callahan about his film Against the Current that will be the Woodstock Film Festival line-up this year.
Jay Blotcher reviews: It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun.
Richard Linklater will be given the WFF’s Maverick Award on Saturday, October 3, 2009.
After clocking more than two cumulative days of movie-watching, your bleary-eyed but still-enthused reviewer shares his informed opinions on the Woodstock Film Festival 2009 line-up.
Jay Blotcher speaks with the fiercely independent Meira Blaustein on the Woodstock Film Festival.
“Whisper House,” Duncan Sheik’s latest musical, comes to Powerhouse at Vassar.
A profile of the minds behind Ironbound Films.
Something for everyone: Jay Blotcher’s summer theater preview.
Jay Blotcher reviews two biographies of Pete Seeger: The Protest Singer
by Allan Winkler and To Everything There Is a Season by Alec Wilkinson.
Jay Blotcher talks with David Hajdu, author of comic book history The Ten-Cent Plague. Hajdu will be reading and signing at Joshua’s Cafe on April 4.
CD Reviews for March 2004.
CD reviews for February 2004.
Comedian Paula Poundstone brings her signature deadpan routine to the Bearsville Theater on March 7.
Jay Blotcher speaks with Mary Gaitskill about her new collection of short stories, Don’t Cry.
Ray Davies, the father of British rock, will perform at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on December 6 at 8pm
Jay Blotcher reviews Russell Banks’s Dreaming Up America
The Pride, the work of Tivoli-resident Gerard Hurley, will be showing at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck from November 7 through November 9.
Jay Blotcher reviews several films showing at the Woodstock Film Festival and enjoys a Q&A sessions with WFF lifetime achievement award-recipient Haskell Wexler.
In 97 minutes, three actors will stage pieces from all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in
“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” at Boscobel in Garrison.
Jay Blotcher talks with Thomas Kail, recent Tony Award winner for his hit musical “In the Heights” and director of “Broke-ology,” which will be at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts, July 9 through July 20.
Jay Blotcher highlights this summer’s music, theater, and art festivals.
A review of Gilbert King’s The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the search for Justice in the American South by Jay Blotcher.
Musician-activist Pete Seeger is honored in the movie Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, playing at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck the second week of this month.
Tom Ford stars in a local production of The SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris.
Uncle Rock U., mines folk, funk, and rootsrock for 17 upbeat, flat-out fun tunes that celebrate polar bears, fire engines, grumpy neighbors, and more.
Under the banner “A Break from the Constant” this refreshingly bold arts-in-the-schools initiative will take place November 1st through the 4th.
Stanley’s House is an exploration of parallel lives lived in the same house.
The Woodstock Film Festival rolls out the celluloid in its eighth year.
Spoken-word performance, the artform so identified with Manhattan’s East Village of poverty, drug addiction, and AIDS, has once again inched its way up the Hudson.
Martha Beall Mitchell was known for her coruscating gift of gab. But her unbridled Southern charm barely camouflaged a sly intelligence that was neither expected nor tolerated in Washington wives.
The idea for “Mothers of Invention” began in 2002, after Laura Poe read an article about GMO food “and the crazy, crazy things going on.”
For a luminous example of theatrical symbiosis, look no further than the two-decade relationship between playwright John Patrick Shanley and the Powerhouse Summer Theater program at Vassar College.
Taking a leaf from Kurt Cobain’s book, Elliot Smith nosedived into depression, heroin addiction, and, in a shrewd career move, a 2003 suicide at age 34.
Known for their refreshing takes on Shakespeare classics the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has slyly reworked the tale of the bloodthirsty hunchback king, the bipolar villain we love to hate.
Those seeking an exposé in Into Great Silence—Carthusians: Beneath the Hood?—will find unanswered prayers in this digital scrapbook.
“Natural History” is a bittersweet chamber piece—four different vignettes in four different rooms of the Museum of Natural History.
How far will you travel to touch the hem of the great Odetta?
The premier screening of Racing Daylight, a slice of magic realism filmed in Ulster County and starring David Strathairn, anchors a summer film series by The Woodstock Film Festival.
At his peak, Gene Autry was a cultural juggernaut.
Society’s insatiable appetite for melodrama may go far in explaining the enduring public interest in yet another maiden in distress: Jane Eyre.
“Dollface,” which runs April 12 through 15, is a sidelong wink at the synthetically cheery 1950s and the breezy musicals that flourished during that era.
Four decades before Patrick Swayze donned a wig and eyeliner in To Wong Foo, rural Greene County was home to a sorority of male cross-dressers.
The ’60s were a decade of contradiction and seismic change.
The Powerhouse season at Vassar may be the last defiant hope for American theatre.
Oscar Wilde is a necessary tonic in our dumbed-down, hypocrisy-ridden age.
Political theater troupe Bread and Puppet visits TSL in Hudson.
Sarah Vowell’s distinctive delivery that borders on a petulant whine but resonates with an underdog verve.
“Cabaret” at Marist College.
If you are a theater buff or a graphic arts enthusiast—or both—a visit to “Center’s Edge” is a delightful and rewarding way to spend an hour or so in Rhinebeck.
Introducing Deirdre, the heroine of a Celtic saga dating back to the first century.
Now, Assassins is not a resounding success — through no fault of the Rhinebeck Center cast, which gave it their level best.
Make no mistake; “Company” is not a musical to cuddle up to.
Mohonk Mountain Stage Reader’s Theater performs “Copenhagen” at Unison in New Paltz on January 26 & 27.
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