Blues guitarist Michael Charles will bring his “A to Z 2018” tour to Woodstock this weekend. If he can get some sleep between now and then. And if it doesn’t […]
City officials stayed close to home in choosing a new managing director for the 129-year-old Woodstock Opera House. Daniel A. Campbell, interim director since Managing Director John Scharres retired in […]
Call it the annual Woodstock Folk Festival – with a bonus. Eight featured performers from the U.S. and Canada, with styles ranging from traditional folk to jazz, blues, swing, folk-rock, […]
Woodstock Dance Academy will celebrate its five-year anniversary with its first full-length ballet performance of “Hansel and Gretel” at the Woodstock Opera House is this coming weekend. Linda Pohlman, owner […]
When the short film “The Wanting” premieres at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 30, at the Woodstock Opera House, it will represent a confluence of dreams in filmmaker Marty McGinley’s life. […]
Last July, Woodstock surprised itself with a new lightning-rod attraction, transforming itself overnight into the Midwest’s biggest hub of magic and fantasy aficionados outside the Bristol Renaissance Faire. Youth librarian […]
Woodstock finally gave adopted son Orson Welles a permanent seat. And it came as the latest addition to the Woodstock on Film and on the Stage Mural and Sculpture Garden, […]
Each February, with a four-day festival to celebrate “the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather,” the town of Woodstock relives the making of “Groundhog Day,” the film […]
The Judith Svalander School of Ballet has been a fixture at the Woodstock Opera House. The studio has been performing “the Nutcracker,” full-length ballets, recitals, and other dance events for […]
“To Be Heard,” a four-week group fine-art exhibition and exercise in free speech, will be displayed starting this weekend in the Old Courthouse Arts Center. The show is curated by […]
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