A Musical Salute to Stephen Foster
featuring George Conrad

8 p.m. Friday, September 3

A Labor Day Weekend treat -- George Conrad returns to The CENTER with a musical salute to America's premiere songwriter, Stephen Foster.

Mr. Conrad, a celebrated Irish tenor, and his accompanist, Joel Flowers, are returning to The CENTER for an evening of music saluting America’s first great composer, Stephen Foster.  Song selections will include such Foster favorites as Oh! Susannah, Ring the Banjo, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, and My Old Kentucky Home, as well as some lesser-known but equally beautiful Foster songs.

“I think that people who know Foster's music will enjoy the nostalgic trip down memory lane,” he added. “For people who don't know Foster, it will be a great opportunity to get acquainted with the music and the man, both of which were integral in the development of American popular culture in the 19th century.”

Mr. Conrad has been a fixture in the Beacon City School District for 22 years as well as a local favorite amongst theatre-goers in the Hudson Valley. He has performed in such CENTER favorites as Hamlet, My Fair Lady, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Christmas Carol, and most recently in The Rocky Horror Show.

Mr. Flowers served for many years as the entertainment director for the U.S. Army in Germany, where he also performed and accompanied vocalists at the Theatre Des Westerns and The Deutches Oper in Berlin.  Residing in the Hudson Valley since 1994, Mr. Flowers has served as musical director for many local community theater productions and is the community recreation coordinator at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Tickets: $18 adults; $16 seniors and children.

THE GREAT ALL-AMERICAN AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION MAGIC SHOW

11 a.m. Saturday, September 4

Audience members will be amazed by their own feats of prestidigitation, through transmittal, transposition, and mind over matter! Magician Andy Weintraub leads this show that’s fun for the whole family.

Tickets may be reserved in advance or sold at the door as available one hour prior to the performance at $6 for children, $8 for adults.

Highlights from the Footlights

September 4-5

8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday

What do you get when you ask performers to sing a few of their favorite songs? The answer is clear: You get Highlights From the Footlights. And here’s your chance to join in on the fun… The stars will glitter and magic will happen, as a brand new addition of Highlights comes to The CENTER for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck on Labor Day Weekend.

The performers are those who've brought down the house a few times and they promise to do it again, just for you. They're getting ready to sing songs that will make you laugh, remember, dream and maybe shed a tear or two. And they'll be doing it in an intimate, cabaret-style setting, just to make you feel even more comfortable.

Performers include Barbara Rankin, who’ll give you a musical welcome, followed by Broadway standards, cabaret delicacies, tin pan alley and operetta favorites sung by the likes of David Rodriguez, Mary Dallari, Jim Klosty, Joanne Fenton, Thomas DeVernier, Marlene Golia, Ben Kellner and Katie DeFiglio. Also on the menu is a tribute to Stephen Sondheim, the musical theater giant who turns 80 this year.

This brand new and perfectly delicious helping of Highlights >From The Footlights will be served up with elegance to spare on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon of Labor Day Weekend -- that's 8 p.m. September 4 and at 3 p.m. September 5 at The CENTER. These revues are always filled with surprises and a lot of fun for the audience and for the performers. This one promises to be no exception.

Highlights from the Footlights

September 4-5

8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday

What do you get when you ask performers to sing a few of their favorite songs? The answer is clear: You get Highlights From the Footlights. And here’s your chance to join in on the fun… The stars will glitter and magic will happen, as a brand new addition of Highlights comes to The CENTER for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck on Labor Day Weekend.

The performers are those who've brought down the house a few times and they promise to do it again, just for you. They're getting ready to sing songs that will make you laugh, remember, dream and maybe shed a tear or two. And they'll be doing it in an intimate, cabaret-style setting, just to make you feel even more comfortable.

Performers include Barbara Rankin, who’ll give you a musical welcome, followed by Broadway standards, cabaret delicacies, tin pan alley and operetta favorites sung by the likes of David Rodriguez, Mary Dallari, Jim Klosty, Joanne Fenton, Thomas DeVernier, Marlene Golia, Ben Kellner and Katie DeFiglio. Also on the menu is a tribute to Stephen Sondheim, the musical theater giant who turns 80 this year.

This brand new and perfectly delicious helping of Highlights >From The Footlights will be served up with elegance to spare on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon of Labor Day Weekend -- that's 8 p.m. September 4 and at 3 p.m. September 5 at The CENTER. These revues are always filled with surprises and a lot of fun for the audience and for the performers. This one promises to be no exception.

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

Sept 11th from 3:00 - 5:00 PM Final open auditions for all roles

Location: Downstairs Classroom, The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck

Seeking:  All roles are available.  

Adult and children actors; choirs, quartets and vocalists; classical ballet dancers, tap, jazz, hip-hop,and ballroom dancers; acrobats, gymnasts, specialty acts and jugglers

Also needed: Stage Manager, properties master, costumer, and back stage crew.

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

Photo by Jen Kiaba Photography

Proof

September 10-26

8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays

Tickets: $22 adults; $20 seniors and children

David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, tells the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? A CENTERstage Production directed by Nicola Sheara.

 "When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to the club. Proof is the one you won't want to miss this fall."
— NY Magazine

"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[Proof is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas."
-- NY Daily News

"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" — Variety

The CENTER for Performing Arts

1st Annual Golf Tournament

Thursday, September 30 12 p.m. tee off

Golf, Dinner, and Performance Fund-raising Event

All net proceeds to benefit The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck

Come enjoy a day of golf, food and entertainment and show support for your favorite, local theater.

Your $150 ticket includes:

-A round of golf (cart included) in Best Ball Format at Dinsmore Golf Course (lunch at the turn)

-Dinner at Mazza Restaurant

-Tickets for two to a special preview performance of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

-Raffle Prizes

-An exclusive CENTER for Performing Arts Golf Tournament T-Shirt

-A Dutchess Beer Goodie Bag

For more information and to register please call 845-876-3080!