Curtains: Hilarity & Song at The Center for Performing Arts
Cast bow by Kevin T McEneaney When this curtain opens at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, you are in for a remarkable treat! When is the last tine you had a deep, good laugh? How about three or ...
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Really Rosie Rumbles and Rocks at the Center
Curtain Bow by Kevin T McEneaney Really Rosie is a children’s musical with book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak, and music by Carol King, now playing in Rhinebeck at The Center for Performing Arts. Originating as a half hour PBS ...
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Amélie Provokes a Broad Grin at Center for Performing Arts
by Kevin T McEneaney If you still have a touch of the Pandemic Blues, you can chase those worries away by attending Amélie at Rhinebeck’s Center for Performing Arts where Kacie Boice (as Amélie) and Frank McGinnis (as Nino, the ...
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David Rabe’s Play at The Stissing Center
The Stissing Center in Pine Plains by Kevin T McEneaney Suffocation Theory by David Rabe was presented with actor Bruce DuBose at The Stissing Center last Sunday afternoon. The monologue provides adaptation of a short story Rabe published in the ...
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Shakespeare in Love: Larking at the Center
Curtain call Reviewed by Kevin T McEneaney The play Shakespeare in Love by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck will drive Shakespeare scholars to the nearest bar for five or six drinks: the ...
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The Humor of Henry V at the Center
by Kevin T McEneaney None but William Shakespeare could take a script about patriotism and war and transform it into a wonderful comedy, as he does so marvelously in Henry V, written in 1599. This production of a lengthy masterpiece ...
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The Village Cidiot at The Stissing Center
by Kevin T McEneaney Cidiot is the term local farmers employ to describe urban transplants to agricultural landscape. Idiot is a classical Greek word invented in Athens to describe a citizen who has no interest in the community—that is, a ...
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The Extremists: They are in New Milford!
Reviewed by Kevin T McEneaney Are the books that you read subversively extreme? What about TV talk shows? News anchors? Do they get your attention by being extreme? Of course, they do—that’s how they get your attention—by giving you the ...
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Ironic Last Gasp at The Stissing Center
Catherine Howard, Anne Undeland, Zelda Kosofsky, Dean Temple, Paula McGonagle, Tristan Latino, Jim Petrie, Martine King (stage Director) by Kevin T McEneaney As part of the Local Produce series of play readings at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Last ...
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Master Class in High C at Rhinebeck Center
From left: David Kent (Stagehand), Sabina Balsamo, Elaine Young, Sara Beth Pearson, Thomas Netter, Paul Schubert by Kevin T McEneaney Terrence McNally’s 1995 docufiction play Master Class, which won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Play, at the Center for ...
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