Iolanthe: Gilbert & Sullivan Visit Bard

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…

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Aphrodite attacked by Euripides at Bard College!

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…

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Freud and Lewis debate at Theatreworks

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…

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Bard Sosnoff: Big Orchestral Sound

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…

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Crescendo: Iberian & Beyond in Lakeville

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…

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Chinese New Year Concert at Bard College

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…

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It’s A Wonderful Life at The Center

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,…

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Smithfield Church Christmas Concert & Tea!

Preview by Kevin T McEneaney What is the best way to enter the Holiday Season with optimism springing in your step? Attend a concert, of course! The seventeenth annual Christmas…

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Sherman Chamber Ensemble Jazz Smorgasbord

Ted Rosenthal, Susan Rotholz, Eliot Bailen, Eddie Barbash,Thomas Kneeland, Chris Parker by Kevin T McEneaney The annual Thanksgiving Jazzing it Up! Program by the Sherman Chamber Ensemble was held at…

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