S by Kevin T McEneaney Last Sunday at The Stissing Center’s Young Artists Showcase series saxophonist Steven Bank and accordionist Hanzhi Wang performed an idiosyncratic selection of Classical works. They…
by Kevin T McEneaney Robert Schumann was enthusiastic about the invention of the French horn; love of this new valve sound which was able to play every note of the…
Final bow Who says they died decades ago? Both of them were at the Bard Sosnoff Theater bar last night drinking a nightcap. They live on despite rumors of their…
Sophia Barbatsuly as Aphrodite by Kevin T McEneaney As a student, I had studied classical Greek, but gave it up due to my fifty-hour work schedule, yet I did acquire…
by Kevin T McEneaney John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt: A Parable won five Tony Awards in 2005. The play begins with endearing humor about the Roman Catholic Church, then gradually…
Freud’s Last Session at Theatreworks in New Milford offers superb acting in a two-person heavyweight drama: an elderly Sigmund Freud, played with biting wit by Francis A. Daley, duels verbally…
by Kevin T McEneaney Bard’s Sosnoff Theater with The Orchestra Now presented a peculiar opening for its Valentine’s Day concert which opened with the 1821 Overture of Carl Maria von…
Job Salazar Fonesca, Camila Parias, Christine Gevert, Ben Harms, Christa Patton, Hideki Yamaya by Kevin T McEneaney Under the direction of Christine Gevert, Crescendo presented the concert Cantos y Suspiros…
Final Bow by Kevin T McEneaney At Sosnoff Theater Conductor Jingdon Cai treated the audience to the fourth Chinese New Year Concert with amazing energy and enthusiasm. This concert surpassed…
by Kevin T McEneaney Yes, life, theater, and Christmas can be wonderful! The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck is producing a stage version of Frank Capra’s 1946 classic film,…