Theater: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

Melody Grove in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

(© National Theatre of Scotland/Drew Farrell)

The National Theatre of Scotland's The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

"Created by writer David Greig and director Wils Wilson, with design by Georgia McGuinness, movement by Janice Parker and musical direction by Alasdair Macrae, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart is described as "a transporting, music-filled folk theater fable." The show "unfolds among and around its audience, weaving an ingenious, lyrical and enchanting story told with live music throughout its intimate and supernatural setting."

The production will feature a full Scottish cast from the National Theatre of Scotland, including Annie Grace, Melody Grove, Peter Hannah, Alasdair Macrae, and Paul McCole.

The McKittrick Hotel's bar and music venue, the Heath, has been transformed into a high-spirited Scottish Pub for the production."

Theater: A Christmas Carol at the Merchant's House Museum

Summoners Ensemble Theatre's A Christmas Carol will return to the Merchant's House for the fourth consecutive holiday season, December 7-24.

John Kevin Jones portrays Charles Dickens as he tells the timeless Christmas tale in the Greek Revival parlor of the landmark 1832 Merchant's House Museum. The one-hour performance, created from Dickens' own script and directed by Dr. Rhonda Dodd, transports audiences back 150 years in a setting surrounded by 19th-century holiday decorations, flickering candles, and richly appointed period furnishings.

Theater: Fiddler on the Roof

http://fiddlermusical.com/

From: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/theater/review-a-fiddler-on-the-roof-revival-with-an-echo-of-modernity.html

The score, by Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), enters your bloodstream, indelibly, upon a single hearing, so rousing are its songs of celebration, so beautiful the melodies of its songs of love and loss — two sides, for Tevye, of the same coin. And Joseph Stein’s book miraculously blends borscht belt humor (he was an alumnus of the fabled writing staff of “Your Show of Shows”) with a moving depiction of Tevye’s conflicted heart and the suffering of the Jews under Russian imperialism.

Music: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610

TENET's Green Mountain Project returns to offer their beloved performance of this monumental work. "A treasured staple in New York" (The New York Times), TENET's all-star cast will present Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 under conductor and music director Scott Metcalfe and with Dark Horse Consort in a historically informed approach and appropriate chants.

MUSICAL DIRECTOR: SCOTT METCALFE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: JOLLE GREENLEAF

Sopranos:  Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn
Alto: Laura Pudwell
Tenors: Colin Balzer, Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots, Aaron Sheehan and Sumner Thompson
Basses: Mischa Bouvier, Stephen Hrycelak and John Taylor Ward

Violins: Ingrid Matthews and Scott Metcalfe
Violas: Dongmyung Ahn and Daniel Elyar
Bass Violin: Emily Walhout
Violone: Anne Trout
Theorbo: Hank Heijink and Daniel Swenberg
Theorbo/Chant: Charles Weaver
Organ: Jeffrey Grossman

Dark Horse Consort

Cornettos: Alexandra Opsahl and Kiri Tollaksen
Trombones: Greg Ingles, Mack Ramsey and Erik Schmalz

More: http://tenet.nyc/green-mountain-project

Film: The 90 Minute War

2016 | 85 minutes | Narrative
Director: Eyal Halfon

A comic mockumentary based on the book by Itay Meirson. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted 100 years. One hundred years of war, bloodshed, bitterness, and suffering. One hundred years of stalemate, intransigence, and failed peace deals. And now it’s all over. They’ve finally found the solution: a winner-take-all soccer match. The winner gets to stay. The loser leaves forever. And no whining.

Film: Beyond the Mountains and the Hills

2016 | 90 minutes | Narrative
Director: Eran Kolirin

David Greenbaum is discharged from the army after serving for 27 years, and tries to find himself in his new civilian life. His family seems at first to be in decent shape, but things unravel in dramatic ways as the Greenbaum family faces life-changing decisions. The film has been compared to an Israeli American Beauty, and explores the disturbed feelings of many Israelis who try to rationalize their sense of personal identity against the dysfunction of the state.