Film: Avatar: The Way of Water

(Rated PG-13, 3 hours, 10 minutes)

Friday, January 27 through Sunday January 29

Friday Shows @ 7:00pm

Saturday Shows @ 3:30 & 7:00pm

Sunday Shows @ 3:30 & 7:00pm

Theater 1, Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their planet.

Film: The Fabelmans

(Rated PG13, 2 hours, 31 minutes)

Friday, January 27 through Sunday January 29

Friday Shows @ 7:30pm

Saturday Shows @ 4:30 & 7:30pm

Sunday Shows @ 4:30 & 7:30pm

Theater 3, Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

V Season: Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein

Directed by Timothy Dunn

MAUDE ADAMS THEATER HUB

Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Sunday, February 19, 2023
@ 7:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

In the heart of the Great Northern Catskills a place called Casa Susanna once existed as a refuge for the exploration of identity. Harvey Fierstein brings his wit and wisdom to the story in the Tony-nominated Casa Valentina.

Casa Valentina premiered on Broadway in 2014, and received four Tony Award nominations. Set in a private hotel in the resort area of the Catskill Mountains in the early 1960s, the play is based on a real-life Casa in Jewett, NY, where heterosexual men would unwind in the countryside by cross-dressing in a safe space. An exploration of what it means to search for one's identity amongst like-minded people, Casa Valentina brings to vivid life the photos in Michel Hurst's and Robert Swope's Casa Susanna. 

​TIMOTHY DUNN is a NYC-based actor, director, and creative-type, who wholeheartedly believes in the magical and transformative powers of storytelling, laughter, kindness, compassion, connection and creativity! Though his theatrical career began with his star turn as The Littlest Angel in his Kindergarten class play, Tim began his professional acting career as a teenager at the St. Louis MUNY, before earning a Bachelor of Sciences in Theatre from Northwestern University and moving to NYC to live the dream. Timothy's career has brought him around the world, from the New York stages of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where he was a performer and director for over a decade, to roles on big, small and tiny screens, and, just this past summer, his Catskills theatrical debut in The Onteora Club Theatre's production of The Drowsy Chaperone. He is delighted to explore Harvey Fierstein's Casa Valentina with audiences up in Hunter, which he also calls home, alongside his fiancee, Gary, and their nutty dog, Tiny Taco Party.

V Season: Exit Laughing, by Paul Elliott

Directed by Linda Nicholls

MAUDE ADAMS THEATER HUB

Saturday, February 18, 2023
Sunday, February 19, 2023
@ 2:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

A wild romp through the cycles of grief: shock, larceny, partial nudity, and laughing until you cry, Exit Laughing by Paul Elliott is a last testament to best friendship.

When the biggest highlight in your life for the past thirty years has been your weekly bridge night out with the "girls," what do you do when one of your foursome inconveniently dies? If you're Connie, Leona, and Millie, three southern ladies from Birmingham, you do the most daring thing you've ever done. You "borrow" the ashes from the funeral home for one last card game, and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives involves a police raid, a stripper, and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have when you're truly living.

Linda Nicholls earned a degree in Music Education from Wagner College, one of the nation’s top schools for studies in Musical Theater. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Greene Room Players. Since 1992 under Linda’s direction the Greene Room Players, a mountaintop community theater company, has produced entertainment for 30 years.

Linda has directed/produced over 75 shows that have included main-stage musicals, comedies, choir concerts, children’s musicals, and theater workshops. Linda, a retired educator, directed and musically directed the Hunter-Tannersville Central High School/Middle School musicals for over thirty years and had the delightful opportunity to direct the Onteora Children’s Theater for several years, and continues as the musical director for their adult musicals.

Some of her directing credits include Mame, Fiddler on the Roof, Damn Yankees, Annie, Anything Goes, Nunsense (twice!), Odd Couple and A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. For the past twelve years you may have seen Linda proudly directing GRP’s special women’s ensemble the “Songbirds”. They continue to perform to sold out audiences on the mountaintop and surrounding areas where they have received rave reviews.

When not involved with music and theater, Linda paints regional scenes of the Hudson Valley and the Eastern Seashores in oils and has won several awards for her work. Linda is happy to collaborate with the Maude Adams Theater Hub as she directs Exit Laughing, a comedy that’s been tugging at her for some time!

Pedrito Martinez Band: Afro-Cuban Folkloric Concert

WORLD MUSIC

Saturday, March 11, 2023
@ 8:00pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

Since settling in New York City in the fall of 1998, Pedrito has recorded or performed with Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, and Sting, and has contributed to well over 100 albums. A master of Afro-Cuban folkloric music and the batá drum, he has played and sung with dozens of Cuban rumba groups and contributed to several important films. Pedrito released a Grammy-nominated album in 2013. His second album was recorded in Cuba and released in 2016 featuring, Ruben Blades, Isaac Delgado, Wynton Marsalis, and Angelique Kidjo. In 2019, Pedrito and Cuban pianist, Alfredo Rodriguez, released a duo album with Quincy Jones as Executive Producer. In July 2019, Pedrito and Eric Clapton recorded a newly arranged version of Clapton’s song, "My Father’s Eyes," and on September 22, Pedrito and Clapton performed together at Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas, Texas.

Ibex Puppetry
"Ajijaak on Turtle Island"

FAMILY PERFORMANCES

Saturday, April 8, 2023
@ 7:30pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

"Ajijaak on Turtle Island" tells the story of Ajijaak, a young whooping crane. Separated from her family in a Tar Sands fire caused by the monstrous Mishibizhiw, Ajijaak must make her first migration from Wood Buffalo, Canada, down to the Gulf Coast on her own, finding her voice and a family through the interconnectedness of all of creation. A reflection on life’s energy and how it connects all aspects of our world, Ajijaak on Turtle Island brings communities together through puppetry, music, traditional dances, animations, and kites. Ajijaak’s story puts forward visions from Indigenous communities, inspiring the next generation of storytellers, change-makers, and eco-champions.

Chanticleer

CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS

Saturday, April 22, 2023
@ 7:30pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

The GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements.

Kyle Marshall Dance

DANCE
A PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM WITH THE JOYCE THEATER

Saturday, May 13, 2023
@ 7:30pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

Founded in 2014, Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC) is a company that sees the dancing body as a container of history, an igniter of social reform, and a site of celebration. KMC believes in the creation, sharing, and teaching of dance as a way to deepen our knowledge of who we are as individuals, how we develop relationships, and ultimately societies. Kyle has received a 2018 NY Dance and Performance Juried Bessie Award, a 2020 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award and was a 2020 Bessie Honoree for the revival of his 2017 dance, Colored.

Memorializing the Masters: Works by Mozart, Hüllmandel, Beethoven and Clara Schumann

CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
ACADEMY OF FORTEPIANO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

with fortepianists
Andrew Willis, Audrey Axinn, Maria Rose

Sunday, May 28, 2023
@ 8:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

The renowned faculty of the Academy of Fortepiano Performance will present a diverse program of music played on historical pianos from the Catskill Mountain Foundation Piano Performance Museum, Steven E. Greenstein collection. The sound world of the 18th and 19th century masters is recreated as the music is performed on the instruments of their time.

Audrey Axinn is a sensitive and vibrant performer on historical pianos and a teacher of historical piano performance at The Juilliard School and Mannes School of Music. She was the associate dean and a member of the team that launched Juilliard's new international branch campus in China.

Maria van Epenhuysen Rose, a native of the Netherlands, is a brilliant performer on historical pianos, covering a wide range of repertoire. She also holds a PhD in musicology from New York University and has published many articles on piano performance practice.

For Andrew Willis, artistry and scholarship go hand in hand. For several decades he has explored the historical development of keyboard instruments and their performance practice while maintaining a commitment to the study, performance, and teaching of the widest possible range of repertoire. A Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Willis teaches piano, fortepiano, and harpsichord performance and leads courses on keyboard literature and performance practice. He has appeared as soloist with such period-instrument chamber orchestras as the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Apollo Ensemble, the Magnolia Baroque Festival, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. In 2005, Andrew Willis toured China presenting works of American, Chinese, and Chinese-American composers.

American Music on American Pianos: "Embraceable Gershwin"

Dr. Joanne Polk, piano
Dr. Jeffrey Langford, lecture

CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS

Saturday, June 24, 2023
@ 2:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

What is your favorite Gershwin song?
Embraceable You?
Fascinatin' Rhythm?
Someone to Watch Over Me?
The Man I Love?
Somebody Loves Me?

The great pianist Earl Wild transcribed all these alluring Gershwin tunes into virtuosic etudes and variations--all fun, passionate pieces for solo piano. Would there be anything sweeter than a Saturday matinee with pianist Joanne Polk performing these arrangements of Gershwin's songs while Jeffrey Langford walks us through the life and times of the composer?

You might even want to sing along.

Cécile McLorin-Salvant

JAZZ MUSIC

Saturday, July 8, 2023
@ 7:30pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

Cécile McLorin Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The late Jessye Norman described Salvant as“a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings”.

Salvant will be performing with her Quintet at the Orpheum Theater in Tannersville as part of the July weekend celebration of the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s 25th Anniversary. Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, theater, jazz, baroque and folkloric music. Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor.
Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. She has received three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One To Love, and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album WomanChild. In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Nonesuch Records released Ghost Song in March 2022. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, of a French mother and Haitian father, she started classical piano studies at 5, sang in a children’s choir at 8, and started classical voice lessons as a teenager.

National Dance Institute 2023 Mountaintop Residency Performance

DANCE

Saturday, July 22, 2023
@ 7:00pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

National Dance Institute returns to the Catskill Region this summer to conduct a two-week dance intensive for local children. The residency will culminate in a joyful performance featuring local students, with special guest dancers from NDI's Celebration Team in New York City. Colorful banners created over the many years of our collaboration will provide a backdrop for the performance. This is a high energy event that draws large crowds every year!

Hunter International Music Festival Faculty Concert

CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
HUNTER INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

Friday, August 4, 2023
@ 8:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

Co-founders of the Hunter International Music Festival, pianist Ruiqi Fang and cellist Julian Langford, have poured tremendous talent and passion into this two week music intensive in the mountains of the Catskills, attracting superb teaching artists as well as students to perform and learn in this summer intensive.

"Decidedly personal," "intelligent playing," and "versatile." These are just a few examples of how critics have glowingly described pianist Ruiqi Fang’s solo recital at the Basílica Menor del Convento de San Francisco de Asís in Havana, Cuba. The recital “will be long remembered; a woman with unquestionable sensitivity, whom has performed works of Baroque and Impressionism with absolute thoroughness.” Ruiqi Fang is currently on the faculty of Long Island Conservatory and is a visiting lecturer at the Central Conservatory of Music Distance Learning Program.

In 2008, Julian was a winner of National Public Radio’s From the Top, and performed on the From the Top radio program. In the same year, Julian performed the Schubert Two Cello Quintet with cellist Yo-Yo Ma at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, and was invited to be a guest artist with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble on PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center at Damrosch Park In the summer of 2018, Julian was invited to participate in a China tour sponsored by the online video platform Discover Melody. In May of 2019, Julian received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the tutelage of Colin Carr at Stony Brook University.

Common Ground on the Mountain: Professor Louie & the Crowmatix, Greg Dayton and Walt Michael & Company

BLUES, POP & FOLK MUSIC

Saturday, August 19, 2023
@ 8:00pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix repertoire is  steeped in rock ‘n’ roll, blues, Gospel and American Roots music and features a compelling collection of original and traditional tunes.

“…a tasty mix of rhythm and blues and rock & roll. Americana at its best”

—Village Voice

Greg Dayton is a singer/songwriter with influences spanning electric and acoustic blues, funk, and rock. His special guest is the soulful vocalist, Towera Smith (New Zealand/ East Africa), former backup singer and session vocalist with the Australian rock group, Silverchair.

Walt Michael’s various incarnations, including Bottle Hill, Michael, McCreesh & Campbell and Walt Michael & Co. have spanned 40 years and taken him from the coal camps of Appalachia to the White House to the Closing Ceremonies of the 13th Olympic Winter Games.

Considered to be a virtuoso of tremendous influence in the revival of the hammered dulcimer, Walt’s wide repertoire ranges from old-time Southern Appalachian, to Celtic, to breathtaking original compositions.

Joanne Polk, piano
Inesa Sinkevych, piano

CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS
PIANISTS IN THE MOUNTAINS FESTIVAL

Tuesday, August 22, 2023
@ 7:30pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

Pianist Joanne Polk was catapulted into the public eye with her recordings of the complete piano works of American composer Amy Beach (1867-1944) on the Arabesque Recordings label. Ms. Polk recording, Completely Clara: Lieder by Clara Wieck Schumann was selected as a “Best of the Year” recording by The Seattle Times and was featured on "Performance Today" on New York Public Radio. Her CD titled Songs of Amy Beach, recorded with baritone Patrick Mason for Bridge Records, was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2014, Ms. Polk’s CD titled The Flatterer, solo piano music of French Romantic composer Cécile Chaminade, was released on the Steinway & Sons Label. Joanne Polk was named as one of Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year in an article titled, “Profiles in Courage.” In February 2020, Ms. Polk’s CD Louise Farrenc Etudes and Variations for Solo Piano, was released on the Steinway & Sons Label. Ms. Polk is a member of the piano faculty of Manhattan School of Music, and is an exclusive Steinway artist.

Ukrainian-born Inesa Sinkevych has risen rapidly into the musical spotlight, captivating audiences around the world as recitalist, chamber musician and orchestral soloist, in venues such as the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the Purcell Room at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, and the Hong Kong City Hall, as well as performing as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon, and the Gran Canaria Philharmonic of Spain, among others. A laureate of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, she has been a member of the Manhattan School of Music piano faculties of the College Division since 2014 and the Precollege Division since 2008.

Olivier Tarpaga Dance:
"Once the dust settles, flowers bloom"

DANCE
A PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM WITH THE JOYCE THEATER

Saturday, September 23, 2023
@ 7:30pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

"Once the dust settles, flowers bloom" is an original evening-length contemporary dance theater and live music work exploring conflicts between feminism and jihadism in Burkina Faso and the Sahel region, specifically the fragility of women's autonomy in the face of invasive religious extremism. This work looks beyond the horror and tragedy by channeling the strength and beauty of this displaced population. ​

Olivier Tarpaga is a dancer, choreographer, musician, composer, songwriter, performing arts consultant and storyteller originally from Burkina Faso. Tarpaga is the founder and artistic director of the internationally acclaimed Dafra Drum (traditional Manding music) since 1995 and Dafra Kura Band (Contemporary African acoustic music) since 2011 and a co-founder of Burkina Faso’s internationally acclaimed “Compagnie Ta.

No Strings Marionette Company
"The Hobbit"

FAMILY PERFORMANCES

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
@ 3:45pm

Thursday, October 19, 2023
@ 3:45pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

Bilbo Baggins is a Hobbit who wants to be left alone in quiet comfort in his home in The Shire. But the Wizard Gandalf comes along with a band of Dwarves and draws Bilbo into their quest. Based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien, in No Strings Marionette Company's adaptation of this stirring adventure fantasy, puppeteers adeptly animate marionettes, life-size body puppets and amazing puppet hybrids.

Puppeteers Dan Baginski and Barbara Paulson have toured America together for over sixteen years. Their traveling stage transforms any space into an intimate theater, where the seamless blend of movement, music and masterful manipulation captivates young and old alike.

With puppeteers in full view, the audience sees how the puppets are brought to life. These Vermont artisans lovingly hand craft the marionettes, props and scenery, whether for an original tale or an adaptation of a classic. Shows begin with an interactive song featuring audience members, and finish with demonstrations sparked by the audiences' curious questions.

Romantically French: Music of Debussy, Ravel, and Cécile Chaminade

Dr. Joanne Polk, piano
Dr. Jeffrey Langford, lecture

CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS

Saturday, November 4, 2023
@ 2:00pm

Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442

Come join husband and wife team Dr. Jeffrey Langford and Dr. Joanne Polk as they take a nostalgic musical stroll through 19th century Paris. Musicologist Jeffrey Langford will help us understand the evolution of French Romantic Music through the eyes of composers Louise Farrenc (1804-75), Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) and Claude Debussy (1862-1918), with music performed by pianist Joanne Polk. Dr. Langford will talk about the musical language of French Nationalism, as well as the struggles of 19th century female composers as they tried, tirelessly, not only to compose but to get their music published so that their music would be performed, heard, and appreciated.

Questions and interactions with Drs. Langford and Polk after the lecture/recital will be invited and welcome.

Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra

Robert Manno,
Music Director & Conductor

Simone Dinnerstein, piano

CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS

Saturday, November 25, 2023
@ 7:30pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

This Thanksgiving, the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Robert Manno, returns with a holiday program featuring acclaimed piano soloist Simone Dinnerstein.

The evening’s program includes:

Bach: E Major Concerto BWV1053
Bach: F Major Concerto BWV1057
Handel: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
Copland: Quiet City
Bach: Orchestral Suite #3

Since 2000 the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra under the direction of composer/conductor Robert Manno has earned accolades and national attention through the many broadcasts of its live performances from the Windham Chamber Music Festival and Catskill Mountain Foundation over American Public Media’s Performance Today.

Simone Dinnerstein has a distinctive musical voice. The Washington Post has called her “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity.” She first came to wider public attention in 2007 through her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, reflecting an aesthetic that was both deeply rooted in the score and profoundly idiosyncratic. She is, wrote The New York Times, “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.”

Robert Manno is Co-Director of the Windham Chamber Music Festival, an award-winning composer, and an acclaimed conductor whose many performances from the Windham Festival and the Catskill Mountain Foundation have been featured nationally on “Performance Today.” The Atlanta Audio Society has described him as “a composer of serious music of considerable depth and spiritual beauty.”

The Hot Sardines: "Holiday Stomp"

JAZZ MUSIC

Saturday, December 16, 2023
@ 8:00pm

Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485

“Not many bands have seized the postmillennial early-jazz spotlight with as much gusto as The Hot Sardines.”
– Nate Chinen WBGO

“These are times that need live music. And I don’t know of anything that brings people together like the joy of hearing traditional jazz live,” says Elizabeth Bougerol, co-leader of The Hot Sardines, with pianist and bandleader, Evan Palazzo. These mischief-makers of hot jazz have been described as “potent and assured” (The New York Times) and “simply phenomenal” (The Times, London). “Everything in our DNA is about connecting with the audience. That’s where we feel most at home,” says Elizabeth, of playing live with the eight-piece band (including one wildly percussive tap dancer). The Sardines have gone from speakeasies and underground parties in Brooklyn, to festival crowds of 25,000 and a TV debut on Later… with Jools Holland. “That’s where jazz lives,” adds Evan. “In the playing, in sharing that experience, in coming together to create a moment that won’t happen again.”