If you love mysteries so much that you enjoy a good parody of the genre, then Billy van Zandt and Jane Milmore’s Wrong Window! is the play for you. Curtain Call Theatre will present this ...
Glen Campbell was the original Matt Damon.
Well, in True Grit, that is, Campbell played Texas Marshall LeBeouf alongside John Wayne in the film’s original 1969 incarnation—before Damon played the role in the Coen brothers’ 2010 ...
The USS Slater has been docked near Broadway in Albany for 16 seasons. This Monday (May 28), however, will be the floating museum’s first Memorial Day as a National Historic Landmark. Deemed to be “a ...
“Before their was nicki..their was kim!!” wrote an enthusiastic “LACE” on the comments thread for Saturday’s Lil’ Kim show at Northern Lights. This is the core argument in a somewhat amusing little feud that’s been ...
One of the most beautiful choral works of all time, Vespers, (All Night Vigil), is considered to be among the most sublime achievements of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the finest pianist of the turn of the last ...
The Friends of the New York State Military Museum have put together a program for this Saturday (May 19) afternoon that honors the long tradition of “entertaining the troops” and, hopefully, will raise a little ...
You know something’s wrong when a fleet of disparate celebrities hold a summit to address an issue of great social and political import. It’s kind of like The Avengers—just with more guitars.
The issue at stake ...
When Disney is at its best—and most magical—it’s often when it takes the most timeless, elemental tales and tells them as directly, simply as they can. Think of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella . . . and ...
Lanford Wilson’s The Mound Builders is a drama about archeology, American business and the lingering residue of lost civilizations. The Kaliyuga Arts production opens Friday at Stageworks/Hudson.
It’s a situation we’re seen before right here in ...
That “Midnight Train to Georgia” must have passed through some rip in the space-time continuum on its way south, because Gladys Knight, who recorded her signature song with band the Pips in 1973, doesn’t seem ...
Get in gear, steam punks and dark-music dancers: Alien Nation is celebrating its three-year anniversary at the Fuze Box on Friday (May 4) with a steampunk soiree. Actually, it’s a double anniversary, as the monthly ...
Where would hip-hop be today without Eric B. and Rakim’s 1987 masterpiece Paid in Full? Would James Brown samples have become so prevalent without “I Know You Got Soul”? Would holographic gangstas be headlining Coachella? ...
Is Riverdance really almost 20 years old? It seems like only yesterday when the crowd-pleasing, savvy combination of traditional Irish step dancing, Celtic music and fog-and-light-effects showmanship combined to take the world by storm.
But, yes ...
Actors must make a fictional character absolutely “there” for an audience, and a popular technique for doing this requires an actor to find some deeply personal emotional memory and use it to make the unreal ...
Neil Simon had never written an all-out farce before Rumors, but he went all-in on this comic gem. Set at the 10th wedding anniversary party of a New York political power couple, Rumors charts the ...
It’s been three years since I and Love and You, the Rick Rubin-produced, Columbia Records-foisted effort by Seth and Scott Avett, but it’s still hard to think of the Avett Brothers as a major-label act. ...
Greg Aidala’s next comedy clambake will be held in Latham this weekend, and he’s offering a smorgasbord of national and local talent.
Toplining the show will be Moody McCarthy (left), whose resume includes Last Comic Standing ...
Thirty-five years: That’s the anniversary being celebrated in 2012 by one of Albany’s best-loved visual art institutions, Albany Center Gallery. Les Urbach’s downtown art outpost was nurtured not far from the gallery’s current location. And ...
Making their second appearance as part of the de Blasiis Chamber Music Series at the Hyde Collection, the Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo will perform a varied program of music, from Brahms to Bernstein and Debussy to Paquito ...
What to say of Bruce Springsteen in, this, 2012?
Actually, quite a lot. With Wrecking Ball, released last month, the Boss tied Elvis for the third most No. 1 albums ever. Dude’s got 10. And this ...
“With One Look” is one of the lushly orchestrated songs from Sunset Boulevard, the 1994 stage adaptation (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber) of the classic Billy Wilder-Gloria Swanson 1950 movie. And one look should suffice ...
They began playing together at late-night music-reading parties, but the musicians who make up the Knights chamber ensemble have transformed into a full range orchestra led by conductor Eric Jacobsen. The young Brooklyn musicians have ...
The Solid Sound festival has been put on hiatus for this summer, but that doesn’t mean MASS MoCA is dialing back its rock & roll programming. Wilco may have been the honorary curators the past ...
Next Move: Festival of Modern Dance returns with a two-night stand at the GE Theatre at Proctors—and you’re going to want to see both shows.
Curated by Ellen Sinopoli, Next Move is a showcase for four ...
Simply put: John Zorn is one of the biggest international names in experimental and avant-garde music.
From free jazz to hardcore, Jewish devotional music to classical, rock & roll to film and theater, there are very ...
