The 2025 ADK LAKES Theatre Festival presents

The Gin Game

Touring performances Friday, July 11 – Thursday, July 17

Written by D.L. Coburn, the 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning play stars Adirondack favorites Jordan Hornstein as Weller Martin and Anne Buckwheat as Fonsia Dorsey, two weathered souls competing for secrets and satisfaction through the metaphor of a card game. This production is co-directed by Hornstein and ALCA’s own Karen Lordi-Kirkham.

Performances open Friday, July 11, and Saturday, July 12, at 7:30 pm at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts and will tour to various venues around the Adirondack Park, including: 

Tannery Pond Center in North Creek, Sunday, July 13, at 3 pm 

Indian Lake Theater,  Monday, July 14, 7:30 pm 

View Arts Center in Old Forge, Tuesday, July 15, 7:30 pm 

The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, Thursday, July 17, 7:30 pm 

More info and advanced discounted tickets are available HERE. Tickets will also be available for purchase at the door.

Music for Summer Evenings series

McCarty & Zito Duo

Thursday, July 10, 7:30 pm

Internationally acclaimed artists Patricia McCarty and Bill Zito will perform three centuries of music for viola and guitar.

Freewill donations taken at the door (suggested donation of $10-20). All proceeds go to the preservation and maintenance of the Chapel.

For more details about the concert series and the groups performing, visit HERE.

Grace Memorial Chapel, 99 Sabbath Day Point Road, Silver Bay

Lake Placid Sinfonietta presents

Park Concerts at Mid’s Park: American Landscape

Wednesday, July 9, 7 pm, free

The concert will feature pops and light classical selections performed by the Lake Placid Sinfonietta. If weather does not allow an outdoor performance the concert will be moved to St. Agnes Church on Saranac Avenue and will begin at 7:15 pm.

Mid’s Park, 2445 Main St, Lake Placid

Sunday night concert: Color My World

Sunday, July 13, 7:30 pm

Featuring Debussy’s La Mer, Schulhoff’s Piano Pieces, and Korngold’s Much Ado About Nothing Suite, this concert will be held at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. Ticket info is HERE.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, 17 Algonquin Dr, Lake Placid

Bell Fire Arts Collective Presents

Two SpeakEazy Open Mics this week

SpeakEazy Storytelling Open Mic at Old Soul 

Wednesday, July 9 at 7pm, List opens at 6:45

Join host Alex Clark and hoist your favorite beverage in the cozy comfort of Plattsburgh’s Old Soul Taproom in Downtown Plattsburgh.

Old Soul, 124 Margaret Street, Plattsburgh

SpeakEazy Storytelling Open Mic at Essex Theatre Company

Saturday July 12 at 7 pm, List opens at 6:45

Join SpeakEazy hosts Alex Clark and Mac MacDevitt for an evening of storytelling in the historic Masonic Lodge in the heart of downtown Essex. This is a fund raiser for Bell Fire Arts. ETC very generously splits ticket sales with us. Tickets for all ETC shows HERE.

Essex Theatre Company, next to the Ferry Dock, 2756 Essex Road, Essex

More info on Speakeazy Storytelling HERE.

The Bookstore Plus presents

Book signing with Jenn Hildreth, author of  Tough As A Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits that Empower Us All

Saturday, July 12, from 11 am to 1 pm

North Country native Jenn Hildreth and co-author Aimee Leone have just published Tough As A Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits that Empower Us All. 

Tough as a Mother brings together an extraordinary group of women—athletes, coaches, broadcasters, and professionals who know firsthand the challenges and rewards of balancing family and career.

The Bookstore Plus, 2491 Main St, Lake Placid

The Adirondack History Museum presents

Exhibition Celebration & Artist’s Talk  The Elements: Images Of Hope

Friday, July 11, 5 – 7 pm

Westport artist Dan Keegan will be discussing his exhibit “The Elements–Images of Hope” at the Adirondack History Museum. Reception and discussion with the artist: the challenges of climate change.

Adirondack History Museum, 590 Court Street, Elizabethtown

Lake Placid Center for the Arts presents

Martin Sexton

Saturday, July 12, 2025, 7:30 pm

Sexton returns to Lake Placid following the premiere of The Martin Sexton Abbey Road Show at LPCA last summer.

America comes together in the music of Martin Sexton. Our hearts mend, our political and philosophical differences melt away, and the various strains of our roots music entangle. Of Sexton, The New York Times says: “His unpretentious heartiness helps him focus on every soul singer’s goal: to amplify the sound of the ordinary heart.”

Sexton has remained true to his mission of sharing peace and harmony throughout his 10 albums, and in countless incendiary live performances. He has thus built a loyal following of fans, including critics and superstar artists. 

Find out more and get tickets HERE.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid

The Mill presents

eucademix (Yuka Honda)

Saturday, July 12, 7:30 pm

Eucademix is the moniker used by Yuka Honda for her solo electronics project. Yuka is a founder of the band Cibo Matto and is an accomplished electronic instrumentalist, composer, and producer. She has a deep fascination with microorganisms and humorously refers to herself as a “de-composer.” Yuka’s music spans various genres, which she collectively terms “sensory music.”

More info and tickets HERE.

The Mill, 6679 Main Street, Westport

The Elizabethtown Social Center presents

Becoming a Flower 

Children & Teens Collage Workshops Explore Nature, Design, and Creative Expression

Children’s Workshop, Saturday, July 12, 10 am – 1 pm

Teen Workshop “Posters as Pollination,” Saturday, July 12, 2 pm – 3:30 pm

The Elizabethtown Social Center is pleased to present “Becoming a Flower,” a pair of imaginative collage workshops for children and teens led by designers Jean Brennan and Gracia Echeverria. These free workshops invite young people to explore how visual patterns in nature can inspire creative expression, community connection, and personal storytelling.

Through creative, hands-on art-making with everyday materials —collage, stamping, hand-drawing, and photocopying—participants will create “flower flyers”: handmade posters that carry messages, just as real flowers use shape, color, and pattern to communicate with the world around them. Drawing inspiration from flower biology and pollination, the workshops explore how art and ecology can intersect in playful, meaningful ways.

More information is HERE.

Elizabethtown Social Center, 7626 US Route 9, Elizabethtown

The Westport Library presents

Annual Arthur Dodge Memorial Concert Featuring Meadowmount School of Music