Through the generations, there have been innumerable productions of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but it’s unlikely that audiences have experienced a production like the one Arc Stages is serving up this weekend. The Pleasantville-based theater company is presenting its original work,
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Director-producer-performer Katie Schmidt Feder, formerly executive director of Embark Peekskill and Garrison Art Center, has created “A Moveable Musical Feast” to spread the word and establish an audience for Theatre in the Wood, a new theatrical and culinary production company
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The upcoming year is a critical one for Westchester Ballet Company. Established in 1950, next week the nonprofit organization that trains young dancers in the region between six and 18 years old, will be kicking off its 75th anniversary year
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By Anna Carpinelli Legendary singer/songwriter Joan Osborne will be the star attraction at the inaugural Sleepy Hollow Music Festival, scheduled for Saturday, June 8 at Kingsland Point Park. Osborne, an eight-time Grammy nominee and multiplatinum selling recording artist, will perform
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For some listeners, the banjo and jazz might not be thought of in the same sentence when associating instruments to certain genres of music. But for acclaimed four-string jazz banjoist Cynthia Sayer, who has enjoyed a long and fulfilling music
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By Anna Carpinelli For 47 years, Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow has hosted the Pinkster Festival, a celebration of the perseverance of African American culture during enslavement. This Saturday, May 25, guests can expect something a little different. Malik Work,
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By Anna Carpinelli Thirty years ago, after touring Europe and performing in New York City, Angie Angier decided to spend six months in Chappaqua teaching music lessons to save money for law school. She never left. “I started teaching, and I
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Two Pleasantville organizations, Arc Stages and Pleasantville Community Television (PCTV), each received $50,000 grants from the New York State Council on the Arts recently to help support their popular programs that benefit the community. The money earmarked for Arc Stages
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By Brian Kluepfel Tony Furtado and Matt Flinner are Americana multi-instrumentalists who’ve moved in the same circle for more than three decades. Both are two-time winners of the elite Walnut Valley National Flat-Picking Championships in Winfield, Kan. (with Furtado on
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Community Based Services has had more than four decades of experience in helping members of the intellectual and developmentally disabled population reach their potential. More than two years ago, the nonprofit branched out into the art world to not only
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