Disco Chalet [sold out]
February 7 at Inness in Accord
Disco Chalet returns to Inness with its particular brand of midwinter escapism: a barn transformed into an alpine fantasy fueled by deep-crate disco and house. Now in its fourth year, the event is curated by Laura Lynn Leland and Sean B. Nutley (StockadeFaire, Catskills Roller Disco), whose instincts tend toward inclusive dance floors and carefully tuned atmospheres. The music lineup is anchored by Greg Wilson, the British DJ and disco historian whose career stretches back five decades and helped define modern DJ culture, alongside Laura Lynn’s warm, groove-forward selections. Add immersive lighting and décor by NiteMind and performance elements overseen by House of Yes founder Kae Burke, and Disco Chalet lands somewhere between après-ski reverie and all-night dance ritual. 7pm.
Ophira Eisenberg
February 7 at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains
Standup comic and storyteller Ophira Eisenberg brings her sharp, self-aware humor to the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, drawing on a career that spans clubs, festivals, radio, television, and the confessional extremes of parenthood. Best known as the longtime host of NPR’s “Ask Me Another,” Eisenberg blends quick wit with narrative precision, moving easily between cultural observation and deeply personal material. Her recent work leans into the contradictions of adulthood—ambition, aging, family life—without sanding down the edges. A regular presence on “The Moth” and a veteran of festivals from Just for Laughs to Moontower, Eisenberg’s comedy is smart, candid, and disarmingly funny. 7:30pm.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
February 7 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo—the beloved all-male ballet troupe known as the Trocks—bring their gleefully precise brand of classical parody to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 7. Founded in New York City in 1974, the company has spent five decades skewering ballet’s grand traditions while honoring them with formidable technique, from fearless pointe work to exquisitely timed physical comedy. The program features send-ups of staples like “Swan Lake” and “La Bayadere,” plus the iconic “Dying Swan.” The performances also mark a hometown return for Great Barrington–raised dancer Vincent Brewer, adding a local resonance to the laughs, tutus, and impeccable timing delivered by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
“Tartuffe”
February 7, 14, 21, 28 at Savage Wonder in Beacon
Moliere’s “Tartuffe” gets an unnerving reset at Savage Wonder Art Center, where the classic comedy of hypocrisy is reframed as an immersive social experiment. Directed by Christopher Paul Meyer, this “unhinged” Equity reading places audiences inside a shadowy French salon, close enough to feel the power shifts as they happen. Using Richard Wilbur’s sharp translation, performers interrupt one another, redirect bodies, and reshape language in real time, exposing how authority operates quietly and persuasively. Featuring a cast of Broadway veterans and Tony Award winners, Savage Wonder’s “Tartuffe” trades polite satire for something more intimate, destabilizing, and sharply contemporary. 6pm.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
February 12 at Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind endures because it understands memory as both burden and bond. Charlie Kaufman’s script and Michel Gondry’s handmade surrealism follow a couple who erase each other after a breakup, only to learn—too late—that forgetting isn’t the same as healing. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet ground the film’s conceptual playfulness in genuine emotional ache. Presented by Boondocks Film Society, the screening expands into a full-sensory evening, with food by Filipino pop-up Sira Ulo and live musical accompaniment by singer-songwriter Kendra McKinley. A reminder that love, like memory, is imperfect—and worth the risk. 6pm.
Crime on the Hudson: Gilded Age Pirates and River Thieves
February 12 at Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston
A stretch of the Hudson better known for postcard vistas once hosted a darker traffic: mercenary sloops, river thieves, and Gilded Age pirates working the waterway between Manhattan and upriver estates. Crime on the Hudson opens with a brisk lecture tracing real—and occasionally embellished—criminal activity along the river in the 1860s and 1870s, then shifts into immersive theater. Performed by Siren Theatre Company, the evening stages a trial involving one of the era’s most enigmatic figures, a young woman rumored to have led a Lower Manhattan gang. Part history lesson, part courtroom drama, the program blends scholarship with storytelling to unsettling effect. 6:30pm.
“Cupid’s Cabaret” Burlesque
February 14 at Colony in Woodstock
“Cupid’s Cabaret” gives Valentine’s night a mischievous makeover, blending burlesque, cabaret, and theatrical flair into a celebration of desire and spectacle. Hosted by Tryst La Noir, the evening leans into playful striptease, sharp comedy, and high-glam costuming, with each act bringing its own character-driven twist. More than a classic burlesque revue, the cabaret format allows for surprise and storytelling, pairing music and movement with a knowing wink. Romantic without being saccharine and sexy without taking itself too seriously, “Cupid’s Cabaret” transforms the holiday into a bold, joyfully subversive night of performance. 7pm.
Setan Jawa
February 18 at the Crandell Theater in Chatham
Garin Nugroho’s Setan Jawa reimagines silent cinema through the lens of Javanese mythology. Shot in stark black and white, the film follows a poor young man who strikes a dangerous bargain with supernatural forces to rise above his station and claim a forbidden love, only to discover the cost of ambition. Expressionist imagery, ritual gesture, and early film aesthetics combine into a dreamlike moral fable about power and desire. The screening is accompanied by a live score from composer and vocalist Peni Candra Rini, whose fusion of traditional Javanese music and contemporary composition turns the film into a hypnotic, ceremonial experience. Part of PS21’s The Dark festival. 8:30pm.
The Hudsucker Proxy
February 22 at Upstate Films Midtown in Kingston
The Coen brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy remains one of their most undervalued films: a screwball parable about ambition, capitalism, and the American talent for self-mythologizing. Set in a stylized, art-deco Manhattan, the film follows a naïve mailroom clerk installed as a corporate stooge, only to upend the scheme with a deceptively simple invention. Tim Robbins’s guileless performance, Jennifer Jason Leigh’s rapid-fire newsroom patter, and a gleefully cynical supporting cast give the film its snap, while Roger Deakins’s glossy cinematography and Carter Burwell’s soaring score elevate the satire into something operatic. Silly on the surface, sharp underneath, Hudsucker improves with age. 7:30pm at Upstate Films Midtown in Kingston.
Justin Willman: “One for the Ages”
February 28 at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie
Comedian and magician Justin Willman brings his One for the Ages tour to the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, blending sleight of hand with stand-up timing and finely tuned crowd work. Best known as the creator and star of Netflix’s “Magic for Humans” and “Magic Prank Show,” Willman has built a reputation for illusions that land laughs first and amazement a half-beat later. The new tour mixes fresh material with the playful misdirection and audience interaction that have fueled his viral reach. Neither traditional magic show nor straight comedy set, “One for the Ages” occupies a sweet spot between spectacle and wit. 7pm.
This article appears in February 2026.
