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April 18 & April 19 -- After a sold-out performance at Beacon Bonfire, this special 90-minute concert of the family-friendly 2-person musical DADDY LONG LEGS is back at the Howland. Starring real-life married performers Erin Mendez Stapleton and Andrew Oppmann, directed and music directed by Broadway in Beacon’s Will Reynolds (who played the title role in the show Off-Broadway). Based on the classic novel, which inspired the 1955 movie starring Fred Astaire, Daddy Long Legs is a beloved tale in the spirit of Jane Austen, The Brontë Sisters, and “Downton Abbey.” Daddy Long Legs features music and lyrics by Tony Award-nominated composer/lyricist, Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre), and Tony-winning librettist/director, John Caird (Les Misérables), and is a “rags-to-riches” tale of newfound love. Jerusha Abbott is the “Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home” until a mysterious benefactor decides to send her to college to be educated as a writer. Required to write him a letter once a month, she is never to know the benefactor’s identity – so she invents one for him: Daddy Long Legs. Through her correspondence with Daddy Long Legs and her growing intimacy with Jervis, Jerusha’s letters chronicle her emergence as a delightfully independent “New American Woman.” Yet, there is one startling fact that Jerusha has yet to uncover – a fact that will change her life forever. Presented through special permission from the authors. Come fall in love with DADDY LONG LEGS for the first time, or all over again. This event is sponsored by Beacon Creamery and the Solstad House.  A variety of artists are featured in this diverse show. Visitors can expect to see picturesque Hudson River Valley views from the lower to upper Hudson Valley, mainly focusing on the Hudson Highlands region and Bannerman Island and Castle, the Iconic historic site located in the Hudson River between Beacon and Cold Spring, and a favorite location for artists and adventurers.Bannerman Castle Trust    A sci-fi noir mystery with puppets, decoder glasses, and more. paperheartpuppets.com
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.  A genre-bending hybrid documentary/narrative about Jerry Hsu, a retired Taiwanese immigrant in Florida, scammed out of his life savings.
After an unsettling call from a Chinese police officer puts Jerry on his heels, he agrees to join an undercover operation that sends him into a spiral of secrecy and self-destruction. What follows is a rare film that exists along the fine line between fact and fiction, one that confronts memory, nostalgia, human frailty and fallibility, the pursuit of the ‘American dream’, and the seductive traps that fraudsters set to prey upon our aging population. ***** GRAND JURY AWARD ~Slamdance Film Festival ***** “ Starring Jerry as Himself can be filed under ‘truth is stranger than fiction.’ ” – RogerEbert.com “… participatory nature offers something new for true crime.” – POV Magazine “… a remarkable accomplishment.” – Cinema Escapist “100% Fresh” – Rotten Tomatoes ***** Q&A with film producer Jonathan Hsu to follow. Jonathan Hsu has been making films ever since his father gave him the family’s Digi8 Camcorder to document their family travels. Since then, he has produced multiple award-winning commercials, music videos, and films. He founded his commercial production services company, HsuBox Productions Inc., with the mission to share and produce content that is as diverse as his crew and clients. Jonathan is an alumni of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He recently Executive Produced the horror movie “A Wounded Fawn” for Tribeca 2022’s Midnight Program and also the short film “Closing Dynasty” for the inaugural Netflix x Gold House x Tribeca 2022 Future Gold Fellowship. He is a member of the DPA, A-Doc, IDA, Gotham, and Film Independent.  Riveting New Play Explores the Cost of Conscience and the Price of Silence
What happens when one man dares to speak the truth his community refuses to face? HIDE, a searing new one-person play written and performed by Jeffrey Doornbos—a longtime member of the internationally renowned Blue Man Group—confronts that question head-on. Set in a small Midwestern town, HIDE follows a devout parishioner who locks his congregation inside their church to protest its treatment of undocumented members. As the standoff unfolds, he’s forced to reckon not only with his faith and moral responsibility, but with hidden truths about himself. In an era when silence often feels safer than conviction, HIDE examines the personal toll of courage—and the uneasy boundary between righteousness and recklessness. The work marks Doornbos’s playwriting debut, directed by Dani Davis, the Emmy Award-winning writer and Tony-nominated Broadway producer known for her emotionally charged storytelling on stage and screen, with dramaturgy by renowned actor and Hudson Valley resident, Shae D'lyn. Following its first presentation last summer at The Wingéd Monkeys Pieces Project in Hudson, NY—founded by actor/director Shae D’Lyn—HIDE made its way to the United Solo Festival in New York City, where it won Best Fiction, and now lands at the Howland Cultural Center with a bold, intimate new staging. |
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