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This spring, the Ancram Center for the Arts released its plans for the 2024 season, illustrating an exciting range of performances, concerts, workshops, and more. To help provide ample space for this organization’s variety of programs and events, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) recently awarded a pivotal grant of […]

Stir in a moral dilemma, add oranges and watermelons, and sprinkle in a pinch of Shakespeare in a freshly imagined way, and off we go into the 2024 season at Chatham’s PS21, the handsome theater – or make that two theaters: a state-of-the-art black box and an open air pavilion – tucked away amidst the apple trees of a long-ago […]

Thinking about where I might go and what I might trot out to see in the realm of live performances given my druthers this summer, it was time to poke around and make a few decisions. In the event anyone’s asking, after a bit of whittlin’ here and some slicing and dicing there, I hereby present my personal summer dream/wish […]