Rhinebeck Area Entertainment

The Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities is dedicated to the performance and study of 17th- and 18th-century music. Founded in 1972, the Aston Magna Festival—the oldest summer festival in America devoted to music performed on period instruments—has been held in the Berkshires every year since its inception and at Bard since 1984. Under the artistic direction of Daniel Stepner, Aston Magna’s performances aim to interpret as accurately as possible the music of the past as the composer imagined it. The performance style for these concerts has been developed through interpretation by internationally recognized specialists, and the instruments played are originals from the period or historically accurate reproduction.

Anyone who spends more than three days in the Hudson Valley region recognizes the Hudson Valley Renegades have managed to put together more history and tradition in the 15 years they’ve been here than many baseball teams can develop in 100.

Powerhouse Theater, a collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, now entering its 25th season, is dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of new works for theater and film.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College offers an architecturally bold and dynamic environment for innovative artistic presentation in the Hudson Valley. Designed by Frank Gehry, the Fisher Center provides audiences with a world-class complex that inspires risk-taking performances and provocative programs in orchestral, chamber, and jazz music and theater, dance, and opera by American and international artists.

Tangent Arts, a theatrical company founded by Dutchess County natives Andrea and Michael Rhodes and Keith Teller, has re-located from off-off-Broadway in New York City to Broadway in Tivoli.

We started testing pub theater with readings of contemporary classics and original works in New York City. The idea really took hold and we're excited to continue the momentum in our new home, the Hudson Valley.

Thanks to Michael Nickerson at the Black Swan in Tivoli, we have a reading-base and pub theater is a hit! tangent will be hosting readings all year and producing a variety of other works - including a recent award-winning play and an Irish import.