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See some of the wonderful performances hosted at Stissing Center over the last few years.
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See some of the wonderful performances hosted at Stissing Center over the last few years.
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Star cellist Sterling Elliott and pianist/director Sophia Zhou celebrates the opening of 2025 Chamber Music season with a program by all-American composers from Amy Beach (1869) to Kevin Day (b. 1996).
Summer Dean, Texas Country Music Awards Female Artist of the Year, captivates audiences with her raw, honest songwriting and electrifying performances, highlighted in her acclaimed analog album The Biggest Life.
What is the price of being female? Three apparently unrelated women who are haunted by their dreams seek to understand and heal the traumas of their past.
Content Transparency: Cantata for My Sisters in the Key of Dreams contains an extended discussion of suicide and implicit and explicit references to sexual abuse.
A fresh look at a favorite story comes to Pine Plains this April when the Missoula Children’s Theatre and more than 50 local students present the original musical HERCULES!
A fresh look at a favorite story comes to Pine Plains this April when the Missoula Children’s Theatre and more than 50 local students present the original musical HERCULES!
A fresh look at a favorite story comes to Pine Plains this April when the Missoula Children’s Theatre and more than 50 local students present the original musical HERCULES!
This production is part of the Missoula Children’s Theatre’s unique international touring project and is presented locally by the Stissing Center for Arts & Culture
FAQs - https://www.mctinc.org/red-truck-tour/faq/
What You Will Want To Know: https://www.mctinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WYW- WTK-FV.pdf
Diana Byer returns to Stissing Center with her new company, Diana Byer and Dancers, presenting site-specific works, classic choreography, and contemporary pieces accompanied by live music.
Diana Byer, founder and for over 40 years the artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet, returns to Stissing Center by popular demand with her company, Diana Byer and Dancers.
The program features a site-specific work specifically created for Stissing Center, and the duet from the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon, original choreography by Agnes de Mille, considered one of her most poetic and affecting musical theater works.
Come hear THE New York Philharmonic String Quartet!
Frank Huang, concertmaster
Qianqian Li, principal second violin
Cynthia Phelps, principal viola
Carter Brey, principal cello
A string quartet could not have a better pedigree than this - the principal players of 4 sections of the New York Philharmonic who enjoy playing with each other so much they formed their own ensemble in 2017. This stellar group will bring music from the 18th-20th centuries - Haydn, Dvořák and Price - to the lovely Stissing Center on a beautiful spring afternoon. Come join us!
Masters of their trade, The Lonesome Ace Stringband bring grit, skill and abandon to Americana music, bridging old-time, bluegrass and folk traditions into a seamless hybrid of original material that is at once fresh and timeless.
Passion Fruit Dance Company: Elevating street and club dance through electrifying performances, cultural education, and social change. Founded by Tatiana Desardouin and driven by Black heritage, their work inspires and empowers audiences worldwide, from the Guggenheim to Jacob’s Pillow and beyond.
A comedy-drama about a tight-knit Italian-American family in New Jersey fighting to stay together in the midst of an implosion of revelations about who they really are.
The Dirty Grass Players blend traditional bluegrass with innovative newgrass, delivering high-energy performances and soaring harmonies. Their 2023 album Shiny Side Up solidifies them as a progressive force on the bluegrass scene.
Support your local business community, and Stissing Center, on Saturday, March 15th. All you have to do is shop!
The Stissing Center presents Selected Shorts, an unforgettable afternoon of great short stories performed by acclaimed actors, brought to life in this celebrated live public radio event.
Latin Grammy winner Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet evolves tango’s rich tradition, blending classic Orquesta típica, Astor Piazzolla’s tango nuevo, and a modern sound that honors Argentina’s heritage while embracing innovation and passion.
"American Nightmare/American Dream. Four New Yorkers risk everything to break the cycle of poverty. Confronting hunger, homelessness, domestic violence, discrimination, and even jail, they fight for a college degree — and a chance at a piece of the American Dream. Now they are engaging with communities to show the road to education and training for others.
After the screening, join with these inspiring women in exploring how we can come together to build a better future for us all.
Host Alex Pischera, hometown favorite Rachel Lenihan, and headliner Anthony DeVito bring an unforgettable night of comedy to The Stissing Center. With sharp wit, clever one-liners, and engaging humor, this lineup promises nonstop laughs.
Dick Jaeger, obsessed with horror movies, panics when a local serial killer emerges, convinced he's in a slasher film, while his skeptical wife, Tabby, questions media’s role in everyday violence.
Ratatouille follows Remy, a rat with culinary dreams, who teams up with clumsy Linguini to create extraordinary dishes, inspired by chef Gusteau’s motto, “Anyone can cook,” in a Parisian restaurant.
Jungle Love, Hudson Valley's award-winning party band led by Cher, delivers an unforgettable musical journey through classic soul, R&B, Motown, disco, and funk, featuring musicians who’ve played with iconic legends.
If you want an average and predictable slave narrative film, this ain’t it. In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project interviewed 2,300 ex-slaves to document “slave” life using the very words of the men and women who endured it.
Kick off Valentine’s season on February 1 with Broadway’s Sam Gravitte, performing iconic love songs by legends like Stevie Wonder and Sondheim, alongside music director Jacinth Greywoode, exploring love's joy and pain.
Our SOLD OUT signature cocktail event celebrating exceptional performances and the EXCLUSIVE unveiling of our 2025 season.
Hudson Valley Puppet Slam showcases 90 minutes of short, indie-style puppetry for adults, featuring humorous, unconventional, and thought-provoking performances by Hudson Valley artists with a DIY spirit.
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