While we wait for spring, check out this week’s virtual cultural offerings includes gardens tours to theater, poetry readings, and concerts.
Bristol Valley Theatre
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Review: ‘Becoming Dr. Ruth’
Everyone loves a good origin story — a true rags-to-riches, underdog-beats-the-odds-tale can be almost as satisfying as good sex. Through October 21 JCC CenterStage and Bristol Valley Theatre present a retelling of the journey of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, from her childhood as a German Jew pre-Holocaust to respected American sex therapist.
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Warm songs
For lovers of the American musical, this summer offers ample opportunity to break out in song and dance. It’s the spirit of sunlight after a long winter: Just needing to sing. This summer, revisit some cherished classics, or catch a new hit, or discover something lesser known and up-and-coming. Most productions kick off in July, […]
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‘Dracula’ amuses
Just after I started writing about the beautiful drive down to Naples, New York, where the Bristol Valley Theater presents light summer fare in a charming theater, I looked at my review from last summer and found that I said all that. I was kindly trying not to emphasize that show’s amateurism. In the show […]
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Summer camp in scenic Naples
It’s a beautiful drive down to Bristol Valley Theatre, where the light summer fare seems a throwback to earlier theatrical values. In the middle of its 10th anniversary season, BVT is performing one of those silly pieces of claptrap that used to be called “straw hat theater” entertainment. Gerald Moon’s Corpse! is listed as a […]
