Music for Life Night Out 3
Friday, November 14, 7:00-8:30 pm, The Angel Nyack, 18 S Broadway, Nyack
Weekly Recommendation editor’s favorite band, The Rock ‘n’ Rollers, will be playing 2 songs.
For tickets and info please email deidre@musicforlifecenter.com.
Modern Dress Production of All’s Well That Ends Well by the Children’s Shakespeare Theatre
Fridays, November 14 and 21, 7:00pm, Saturdays, November 15 and 22, 7:00pm, Palisades Presbyterian Church, 117 Washington Springs Rd, Palisades
Children’s Shakespeare Theatre will explore the rich textures of Shakespeare’s problem comedy All’s Well That Ends Well through its young cast’s experiences growing up in 2025 in this modern dress production of the play opening November 14th at Palisades Presbyterian Church.
The King of France (Alexander Josuweit) is dying, addicted to his cell phone and refuses his doctor’s medicines. When the daughter of a famed but deceased physician, Helena (Myla Zimbler), tries to cure him, he also refuses. Helena believes in the medicines that her father has left her so completely that she tells the King, if he is not cured, he can take her life.
The King is cured and as thanks gives Helena anything she wants. She asks for the hand of one of his Lords in marriage, Bertram (Levon Goldberg) whom she is in love with. The King marries them instantly, but Bertram has other plans and flees that very day with his ne’er-do-well friend to fight in a European war far away.
Through missed texts, fashion wars, ambushes, military parades, a religious pilgrimage, cell phone mix-ups, and a war zone covered in post-modern graffiti, all’s well that ends well, but you must see it to believe it.
CST Managing Director Grey Johnson directs a cast of sixteen children ages 8 – 16 which also includes Adelaide Macri as the Countess of Rousillon, Declan Amendolia as her fool, Lavatch, Richard Reimann Valdes as the flamboyant coward and party-boy, Parolles, as well as Grace Amoonclark, Ruth Benjamin, Caspian Dawson-Hollis, Elliot Johnston, Kyla Li, Nora Maloney, Megan McAree, Amada Oh, Charles Reimann Valdes, and Erica Winfree. It is Assistant Directed by Elinor Greenway and Emilia Falkner, with costumes by Guy Carsone and sets by Heather Aveson.
The cast and company of Children’s Shakespeare Theatre come from New York and New Jersey and include home schooled students, along with students from Nyack High School, Nyack Middle School, North Rockland High School, South Orangetown Middle School, Ramsey High School, Lewis F. Cole Middle School, Elizabeth Morrow School, Upper Nyack Elementary School and Green Meadow Waldorf School.
CST is dedicated to providing a nurturing and enriching environment through the performance of classical theatre, allowing children to explore, in a safe and supportive educational setting, what it means to be human.
Children’s Shakespeare Theatre receives support from the Jerome Robbins Foundation and our many individual donors.
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Tickets for all performances are $25 for adults, $20 for children under 18. Group rates are also available. Teachers can see All’s Well That Ends Well for free.
Author Talk with Anne Bryant
Saturday, November 15, 2:00pm, The Sparkle Book Store, 642 Main St., Sparkill
Join us as we welcome Anne Bryant, author of The Happy Servant, a story about a gifted young boy with a captivating vision in mind and the family that pools its talents to bring his original ideas to the world.
Voices on the Hudson: Eureka Shoes
Sunday, November 16, 4:00pm, The Angel Nyack, 18 S Broadway, Nyack
Eureka Shoes is a new songwriting power trio of Charlie Burnham, Jean Rohe, and Skye Soto Steele. These longtime friends and collaborators have each achieved notoriety in their respective worlds of jazz, folk, and pop music, and have now joined forces with bassist Rashaan Carter to bring you an entirely new sound. With delicious three-part harmonies, other-worldly twin fiddling, and lyrics that will break your heart and put it back together again better.
Tickets: General Admission $27 (Group Price Available! Buy 4 tickets and save 13%.) Click here for tickets.
Envision Rockland Public Workshops
Tuesday, November 18, 6:30-8:30pm, Clarkstown Town Hall, 10 Maple Ave, New City and Wednesday, November 19, 6:30-8:30pm, Ramapo Town Hall (with virtual option), 237 NY-59, Airmont
Your Voice Matters. Help Shape Rockland’s Future. Rockland County is hosting the second round of public workshops for Envision Rockland, the official update to the County’s Comprehensive Plan.
This phase focuses on defining the vision, goals, and priorities that will guide Rockland’s growth and quality of life. Whether you’re passionate about housing, transportation, sustainability, or community services, your input matters.
For more project information, please visit www.envisionrockland.com.
The Long Path by Shari Ben-Dor Presented by Rivertown Film
Wednesday, November 19, 8:00pm, The Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack
New Jersey runner and race director Kim Lewinsky attempts to set the fastest known time (FKT) on the 358-mile Long Path. This hidden gem of New York’s trail system passes through our own backyard while connecting the George Washington Bridge with upstate wilderness. What begins as a physical challenge becomes a raw and revealing journey into mental health.
Meet the Filmmakers: Shari Ben-Dor and Kim Lewinsky will be joined by Devin Solar, Mental Health counselor with Embrace Psychotherapy in Nyack, and Licensed Hiking & Backpacking Guide.
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Music Sessions @ RoCA: Tony McManus
Saturday, November 22, 7:30pm, Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack
Hailed by John Renbourn as the ‘best Celtic guitarist in the world,’ Tony Mcanus has also been listed as one of the 50 transcendent guitarists of all time by Guitar Player Magazine. Tony has both extended and transcended the parameters of contemporary Celtic music. Ranked by peers and predecessors alike alongside the guitar world’s all time greats, his fiendishly dexterous, dazzlingly original playing draws on traditions from the entire Celtic world, along with further ranging flavors such as jazz and eastern European music. Click here for tickets.
Author Talk with Ralph White and D. Z. Stone
Sunday, November 23, 3:00pm, The Sparkle Bookstore, 642 Main St., Sparkill
In the final two weeks of the Vietnam War, Chase Manhattan Bank assigned Ralph White, then 27 years old, to its Saigon branch to keep it open and assist the staff if possible. One day later, 40,000 enemy troops marched into the city.
The bank’s Vietnamese employees faced likely execution. Ralph’s book Getting Out of Saigon relates his eyewitness account of his own experience assisting his fellow employees as well as the astonishing cascade of coincidences and personalities he encountered as tension in the doomed city built to the breaking point.
Post-9/11, Ralph traded his corporate finance career for public service and writing. He founded and, for ten years, served as the president of the Columbia Fiction Foundry, a writing workshop for alumni of Columbia University. He currently serves as its chairman.
D. Z. Stone is an author and journalist whose non-fiction books focus on the Holocaust and its aftermath. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and Newsday. She previously interviewed author Ralph White and wrote about him for The Foreign Service Journal. She resides in Sparkill.
Nyack Makers Market – Holiday Pop-Up Tour (11/28-12/24)
Anchor vendors for the Nyack maker market are: Bill Batson, Art, Nyack themed art and merch. Local global finds, beloved, long time merchant Maria Luisa fair trade Initiative, block prints, and housewares by John Curley design, African-American children’s books curated by Erica Reid wisely, natural beauty products by Nyack, farmers market favorite Rebecca’s paradise, textiles from arts India and Claudia Delia of Southpaw
The Angel Nyack, 18 South Broadway, Nyack
Friday, November 28, 11:00am – 7:00pm, Saturdays, November 29 and December 13, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Nyack’s newest cultural hub hosts performances and celebrations, work spaces for artists, and is the home of Soup Angels.
Hot Beverages, music and art activities set in a gated garden area in front
The Nyack Library, 59 South Broadway, Nyack
Sunday, December 7, 11:00am – 5:00pm
The Carnegie Room, accessible by the South Broadway Entrance will be filled with your favorite local vendors and some suproces from newcomers.
The Nyack Farmers Market, 119 Main Street, Nyack
Wednesday, December 24, 8:00am – 2:00pm
This will be the second year that Nyack’s year-round outdoor farmers market will host a holiday gift fair.
Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Wright Bros. Real Estate where Experience meets Excellence at Nyack’s Longest Operating Brokerage.
