Clybourne Park
2023-11-10 - 2023-12-03 | Elmwood Playhouse,10 Park St, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
In this powerful play, social and personal tensions simmer behind closed doors in a Chicago neighborhood on the brink of change. Clybourne Park is a witty and provocative examination of race, real estate, and community transformation, in two acts set fifty years apart. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.
Written by Bruce Norris. Directed by Kathleen Mahan. https://www.elmwoodplayhouse.com/volunteer/kathleen-mahan/

Wine from Mud: A Dance Performance by Emotions Physical Theatre
2024-06-15 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Rockland Center For the Arts, 27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA) presents Wine from Mud: A Dance Performance by Emotions Physical Theatre – Friday, June 14 & Saturday, June 15, 2024. 7PM. Dance performance features an organic blend of contemporary dance with hip hop, ballet, gymnastics and breakdance. Tickets on sale! Visit www.rocklandartcenter.org.

Stories For Freedom
2024-06-26 19:00 - 21:00
Stories for Freedom has gathered ten storytellers, who have been cultivating practices of liberation within their work and lives, to join a TMI Project true storytelling workshop to craft their stories of love, resistance, and growth; stories that can be used to further their work and serve as a blueprint for radical generations to come.
By crafting radically true stories, Stories for Freedom amplifies the voices of artists, activists, and artivists to inspire identification and belonging in audience members, and challenge all of us to take bold action in the disruption of systemic oppression.
The cohort includes people selected from an international call, hailing from our hometown of Kingston, as well as across the US, and as far off as South Africa.
Stories for Freedom pays specific homage to the practices of liberation that have emerged from Black and Indigenous communities. For centuries, Black and Indigenous communities have created templates for other marginalized groups to take action to resist oppression. This program aims to acknowledge and celebrate these roots.

Phoenix Festival: A Trojan Woman by Sara Farrington
2024-09-14 15:00 - 16:30 | Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
In a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Israel? Gaza? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Congo? Tigray? Sudan?)A mother loses her child. In her moment of tragic realization, she becomes a Trojan woman, performing every iconic character in Euripides’ original play, The Trojan Women.
A new, solo version of the world’s first anti-war play, originally performed in Athens in 415 BC as playwright Euripides’ protest against the Peloponnesian War. A Trojan Woman by Sara Farrington had its World premiere at the Interbalkan Festival of Ancient Drama, Athens, Greece, July 2023 & US premiere at Luna Stage, NJ, March 2024. A Trojan Woman is now available in print, published by Broadway Play Publishing.https://liveartsinnyack.com/a-trojan-woman-festival-2024

Phoenix Festival: Boy My Greatness by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
2024-09-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
What happened to the boys who played Shakespeare’s women? At the Globe Theater in the summer of 1606, six boy players warm up, run lines, gossip, and fall in and out of love all in between rehearsals for the premieres of Antony and Cleopatra and Twelfth Night. As the plague and rising religious conservatism threaten their way of life, they are all forced to reconsider their futures on the stage.
A play about growing up, gender, and a chapter of theater history we seek to forget.
Written and Directed by Zoe Senese-Grossberg

Phoenix Festival: NURSE! by Ayun Halliday
2024-09-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Studio 101,48 Burd St, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Think you know everything about literature’s most star-crossed lovers? Well, buckle up!
Juliet’s Nurse hits the road to leverage her eyewitness observations and correct the record on “the greatest love story ever told”.
Inspired by actress / Brooklyn Theater fire survivor Kate Claxton’s historic lecture tour, NURSE! is a comic meditation on love, death, aging, teenagers, and the human comedy by Ayun Halliday.https://liveartsinnyack.com/nurse

Phoenix Festival: A New Play is Improvised LIVE in OUT OF THE HAT
2024-09-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Nyack Center,58 Depew Avenue, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
OUT OF THE HAT features Phoenix Theatre Ensemble company members at their finest as they execute the unpredictable feat of improvising a brand new play, sight unseen. The audience goes along for a wild and often riotous ride!
Playwrights Tom Dudzick, Christopher Kyle, Shawn Rawls and Julie M. Goldberg were commissioned to each write a new short play; they were given the theme word “BRIDGE” to follow.
PTE company members Kevin Confoy, Ashley Everhart, Clara Francesca, Amelia Fowler, John Lenartz and Siddarth Raj will draw a character out of the hat for each play, and then… no one knows until it happens!
Don’t miss OUT OF THE HAT!

Phoenix Festival: The Portable Dorothy Parker by Annie Lux
2024-09-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
The year is 1943; the place, a hotel apartment in New York City. Dorothy Parker, famed for her wit and her presence at the legendary Algonquin Round Table–sorts through her works, looking back on her life: her many loves and heartbreaks, her famous friends (Lillian Hellman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), the wits of the Round Table (Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley…), the founding of The New Yorker, and her time as a Hollywood screenwriter, as she prepares her famous collection for Viking Press: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Phoenix Festival: Vita & Virginia by Eileen Atkins
2024-09-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Big Red Books, Main Street, Nyack, New York, 10960, United States
Virginia Woolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. They embark on a 20-year relationship that inspires one of Virginia’s most famous novels, Orlando. Vita and Virginia deftly brings to life the real letters and diaries of the two women, revealing the deep friendship, wit and passion between them.
Directed by Craig Smith
Featuring Elise Stone and Karen Case Cook

Taconic Opera’s 27th Season Begins: Bizet’s CARMEN! Matinees Nov. 2 & 3, Tarrytown Music Hall (NEW!)
2024-11-02 14:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, 10591
Taconic Opera, celebrating its 27th year, is opening its 2024-2025 season with a production of probably the most popular opera of all times: Georges Bizet’s CARMEN. This not-to-be-missed event will take place in the company’s NEW opera performance venue, the historic, beloved and acoustically fabulous Tarrytown Music Hall.

For the full story on the Taconic Opera/Tarrytown Music Hall collaboration, visit: www.artswestchester.org/category/artsnews/

Saturday, November 2, 2024, 2:00 pm
Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1:00 pm
Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main St., Tarrytown, NY.
The theater is handicap-accessible.
Performed in French with English supertitles above the stage to further enhance the entire experience, the production will be fully staged with professional lead singers and orchestra. Maestro Jun Nakabayashi looks forward to providing the downbeat.

Taconic Opera’s production of Carmen will be a retelling of a theme familiar in all generations. Innocent young man (Don José) meets fiery young woman (Carmen). She charms him into leaving an adoring girlfriend, leads him astray into a life of crime, leaves him for someone famous, and refuses his pleas to return to him. His pain and jealousy cloud his judgement and turn his love into anger, leading him to do the unthinkable. Bizet’s music is undeniably exciting, spirited, memorable, and instantly likeable. It includes the famous Habanera and the March of the Toreadors.

Tickets
ONLY available from the Tarrytown Music Hall online, by phone or at the door.
Wide range of prices ($81 – $20) depending on seating; discount for seniors ($7); fixed price for students for all seats ($20).

BEWARE OF SCAM TICKET VENDORS
www.tarrytownmusichall.org
(914) 233-3856

Visit the company website at www.taconicopera.org

Stephen Sondheim: An Afternoon of Song and Story
2024-11-17 15:00 - 16:30 | Shames JCC on the Hudson, South Broadway, Tarrytown, New York, 10591, United States
Broadway comes to The Ark in Tarrytown on Nov. 17, as Westchester’s newest performance venue hosts The Golden Ticket Series’ “Stephen Sondheim: An Afternoon of Song and Story.”
Broadway Legend Jack Viertel delves into the history and song writing background of acclaimed lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim, while a live orchestra and a quartet of professional singers bring his most popular lyrics and music to life. Sondheim, who died in 2021, had an extraordinary career that includes some of the most iconic works of 20th-century musical theater, including West Side Story; Gypsy; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; A Little Night Music; Sweeney Todd; Sunday in the Park with George; and Into the Woods, among others.
The Ark is located within the Shames JCC on the Hudson, at 371 South Broadway in Tarrytown, immediately adjacent to the I-287/Route 9 Tarrytown Exit and is easily accessible by car or train. Stephen Sondheim: An Afternoon of Song and Story is scheduled for Sunday, November 17 from 3:00pm – 4:30pm. Tickets are $50 for JCC Members and $60 for the general public. Tickets are available at: https://www.thearkevents.org/u…

NY OPERA CONSERVATORY: FREE July-August 2025 Summer Concert Series – Croton Free Library
2025-07-09 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-13 15:00 - 16:30, 2025-08-13 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-08-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 10520
The Taconic Opera summer program for emerging opera singers, New York Opera Conservatory (NYOC), offers you an opportunity to hear the upcoming generation of professionally trained singers as they gain valuable experience perfecting their craft in a leading role. Established in 2018, the NYOC helps to fill an unmet need among trained singers to gain hands-on experience through actual performance.

Each event in the series listed below – one tragedy and one comedy – will have a different cast, making every performance completely unique from all the others! Each performance includes the complete opera and is semi-staged (costumes, props).

July Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) – Verdi
What can happen when a king falls in love with the wife of one of his advisers? What does he do when a fortune teller reveals that she loves him too? Based on an actual event in Sweden, come and watch his unraveling in a dramatic yet gently comedic way. Since it’s Verdi, expect some outstanding arias and ensembles.

Dates: Wednesday, July 9, 7:00 pm
Friday, July 11, 7:00 pm
Sunday, July 13, 3:00 pm

August Opera: La Cenerentola (Cinderella) – Rossini
In this dramatic variation of the fairy tale, the Wicked Stepmother is replaced by a stepfather, the Fairy Godmother is replaced by a philosopher and tutor to Prince Charming, and Cinderella is identified not by a glass slipper but by a silver ring. It’s not the Disney story: the supernatural elements that traditionally characterize the Cinderella story were removed from Rossini’s libretto because they couldn’t be staged in his day. However, Taconic Opera will make it just as entertaining and endearing to watch!

Dates: Wednesday, August 13, 7:00 pm
Friday, August 15, 7:00 pm
Sunday, August 17, 3:00 pm

Location: Croton Free Library
171 Cleveland Drive
Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Fee: FREE

For information about becoming a student in the NY Opera Conservatory, visit the Conservatory website: https://www.newyorkoperaconservatory.com/

For general information about Taconic Opera and NY Opera Conservatory events, visit the website: https://taconicopera.org/
