by Paula Kaplan-Reiss What better way to spend a gorgeous August evening in the scenic fields of Ancramdale than seeing three wonderful short plays? For the third year, Ancram Center for the Arts has treated its audience to this Plein Air experience, with the audience not finding out the location…
Ancram Center for the Arts announced the return of its Plein Air Plays, a triptych of short plays performed outdoors. First produced during COVID in 2021, the series has become a popular biennial event: audiences travel by car to different locations where the setting becomes one of the characters. This…
When I think back to the stand-out theater of this year, three shows come to mind. Two plays are familiar; one is brand new. Centuries, a theatrical concert developed by Kate Douglas, Matthew Dean Marsh and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez at the Summer Play Lab at Ancram Center for the Arts, brings…
Following a Summer Play Lab residency, musical collaborators Kate Douglas, Matthew Dean Marsh, and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez return to the Ancram Center in the world premiere of Centuries, their theatrical concert that follows an Ohio family over two generations as a son retrieves and pieces together fragments from his mother’s life. Told entirely through innovative choral music…
Summer Play Lab, now in its fifth season at Ancram Center for the Arts, offers theater artists space, production support, and a budget to develop and present new works. This year’s second Summer Play Lab showing will be a first-look production on July 7 at 4pm of Centuries, an immersive concert collaboration from Matthew Dean…
Ancram Center for the Arts today announced its 2024 season, an eclectic mix of productions and collaborations that will feature three new works developed during Ancram Center’s Summer Play Lab residencies; “Downtown Upstate,” a alternative performance festival bringing the best of NYC downtown theatre artists to the Hudson Valley; Nick…
In collaboration with Millay Arts, the Spencertown Academy is excited to present The Ninth Hour on Saturday, March 9 at 2 pm at the Spencertown Academy, 790 Route 203 in Spencertown NY. A rock-noir reimagining of the epic poem Beowulf that explores the intricacies of humankind’s relationship with power and…
It’s New Year’s Eve, 1959, an explosive moment in American history. The U.S. has entered the space race; Lenny Bruce appeared on NBC for the first time; Miles Davis began recording Kind of Blue; and somewhere in South Dakota, a woman named Jane is making music nobody has ever heard…
