movie JOAN RIVERS - A PIECE OF WORK Time & Space Limited-
434 Columbia St. Hudson, NY 12534 3:30pm This film, by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, takes the audience on a 12-month ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life - Joan at home, during holidays, performing stand up and acting in a play she wrote, gossiping with her QVC fans, writing jokes and managing her career -- interweaving them with home movies, stand up routines, book recordings, personal photographs and archival footage to create a lush visual landscape and cinematic backdrop for the narrative as it unfolds. Filmed as a cinema verite documentary, the film reveals a rare glimpse of the comedic process and the toxic mixture of self-doubt and anger that often fuels it, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. Filmmakers Stern and Sundberg (The Devil Came on Horseback, The Trials of Darryl Hunt) expose the private dramas of this irreverent, legendary comedian as she fights to keep her career thriving in a business driven by youth and beauty. 2010, 84 minutes. Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5 www.timeandspace.org
theatre, music, family
SHOWBOAT The Mac-Haydn Theatre, Inc. - P.O. Box 204; 1925 State
Route 203, Chatham, NY, 12037
4:00pm & 8:00pm Beloved classic favorite ‘just keeps rollin’ along’. Romance, laughter and: Ol’ Man River, Only Make Believe, You Are Love, Bill, Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man 518-392-9292
- machaydn@fairpoint.net www.machaydntheatre.org
one act comedy
A LADY OF LETTERS Taconic Stage at St John’s in the Wilderness - 261 State Route 344, Copake Falls, NY 12517 4:00pm Miss Hodgson returns from London to perform double duty – Noel Coward’s Private Lives in the evenings and a one act comedy during the day at an historic Gothic Revival church! Her previous appearance - in Bed Among the Lentils by Alan Bennett - had audiences and critics in raptures. The Berkshire Eagle raved, “Masterly, fascinating!”, The Lakeville Journal, “Thrilling!” and the Independent, “Best Actress of the Year!” A Lady of Letters, also by Alan Bennett, tells the story of a woman who is perhaps a tad TOO fond of writing letters of complaint, to anyone who will listen! All seats (pews!) just $15! Call (518) 325-3848 to reserve. www.taconicstage.com
movie WOMEN WITHOUT MEN Time & Space Limited-
434 Columbia St. Hudson, NY 12534 5:30pm Women Without Men, an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magical realist novel, is Iranian artist Shirin Neshat's first feature length film. The story chronicles the intertwining lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953; a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history when an American led, British backed coup d'etat brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah to power. The film is dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the struggle for freedom and democracy in Iran - from the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 to the Green Movement of 2009.
95 minutes. 2009 Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5 www.timeandspace.org
theater
THE FULL MONTY - Our most requested show! The Theater Barn - 654 Route 20, New Lebanon, NY - 518-794-8989 5:00pm & 8:30pm This musical smash hit finds six unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo who devise a bold way to make some cash. In doing so they find renewed self esteem, the importance of friendship and the ability to have fun. Tickets $24 Sunday Matinee $22 Group Rates Available www.theaterbarn.com
dinner theatre comedy
PRIVATE LIVES Taconic Stage at Lighthouse Marina - 351 Lakeview, Copake Lake, NY 12521 7:00pm - Dinner
8:00pm - Show Dinner theatre on Copake Lake! Our second play of the season is the 80th anniversary production of the timeless English comedy that answers the question, “What could possibly go wrong on a honeymoon?!” Starring an international cast led by Taconic Stage’s Artistic Director, Carl Ritchie.
Dinner and show package $40. Call (518) 325-1234 for reservations. www.taconicstage.com
movie NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM Time & Space Limited-
434 Columbia St. Hudson, NY 12534 7:30pm A film by Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano. NESHOBA: The Price of Freedom tells the story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, an event dramatized in the Oscar-winning film, Mississippi Burning. Although Klansmen bragged about what they did in 1964, no one was held accountable until 2005, when the State indicted preacher Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old notorious racist and mastermind of the murders. Through exclusive interviews with Killen, intimate interviews with the victims' families, and candid interviews with black and white Neshoba County citizens still struggling with their town's violent past, the film explores whether the prosecution of one unrepentant Klansman constitutes justice and whether healing and reconciliation are possible without telling the unvarnished truth. 2010, 87 minutes. Member: $5, General: $7, Student: $5 www.timeandspace.org
