Pendragon Theatre presents

This is Government

A new play by Nina Kissinger. Directed by Sarah Norris.

Wednesday, August 27, 7 pm

Thursday, August 28, 5 pm

Friday, August 29, 7 pm

Saturday, August 30, 2 pm

Saturday, August 30, 7 pm

It’s summer in Washington, DC and three congressional interns are fielding constituent calls before yet another workplace lockdown begins. While everyone outside investigates the suspicious red Camry making a bomb threat, they find themselves stuck in the one place no one has ever wanted to work overtime: the US government. As the crisis unfolds and their snack supply runs out, they question what power, if any, they have in this increasingly unstable system. 

A comedy with heart, This is Government grapples with the real-time consequences of political disarray.

Purchase tickets HERE.

Please note: this production will be our last at 15 Brandy Brook. Come say goodbye and raise a glass to all of the beautiful memories.

Pendragon Theatre, 15 Brandy Brook Avenue, Saranac Lake

East Branch Friends of the Arts Presents

For reservations and more info, please visit HERE.

About Jazz piano great Fred Hersch 

Jazz pianist Fred Hersch has won a staggering number of awards and honors, including seventeen GRAMMY nominations, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Doris Duke Jazz Artist award, and multiple awards from the leading jazz journals and organizations around the world. He has been called “A Living Legend” by The New Yorker, and “the most innovative pianist in jazz over the past decade” by Vanity Fair. 

Fred has been featured as a leader or soloist on over sixty recordings for several of the most prominent jazz record labels, and has collaborated with many other incredible artists including Stan Getz, Art Farmer, Renee Fleming, and others. He has appeared at virtually every major jazz venue and festival in the world. 

Fred is known for his hauntingly beautiful and elegant improvisations not only on jazz standards but also on pop and folk music classics, and his own compositions. He is lauded as having a unique ability to both celebrate the jazz tradition and simultaneously stretch the tradition by incorporating elements from other styles. The New York Times describes him as “a master who plays it his way.” 

Fred’s life as one of the first openly gay jazz musicians, and his health struggles, have only increased his ability to connect emotionally with audiences around the world. His story was the subject of a feature documentary, The Ballad of Fred Hersch. He has been on the faculty of Julliard, New England Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, and other leading music programs. 

17th Annual Adirondack Plein Air Festival continues with special event honoring Sandra Hildreth

Thursday, August 21, 8 pm

Come celebrate along with us! We will be celebrating and honoring the retirement of ArtWorks founder Sandra Hildreth at the Hotel Saranac.

Join us for sweets and a toast!

And see the full schedule of Adirondack Plein Air Festival activities HERE.

Hotel Saranac, 100 Main Street, Saranac Lake

Great Camp Sagamore’s Summer Concert Series presents

High on the Hog

Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 7:15 - 8:30 pm, free

From the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, High on the Hog Stringband was born of late nights spent trading southern-Appalachian fiddle tunes, country standards, and homemade Adirondack originals. Equally at home under a festival tent or in a living room, the trio of multi-instrumentalists—Bill Chamberlain, Tyler Dezago, and Marion Hoelzel—together bring forth strong driving melodies on fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo, often swapping instruments and sharing harmonies. The trio draws on the simplicity of strings and vocals steeped in an authentic musical tradition while adding their own unique sensibilities and perspective.

More info and register HERE.

Great Camp Sagamore, 1105 Sagamore Road, Raquette Lake

Depot Theatre presents

The Roommate

By Jen Silverman 

Thursday, August 28 – Sunday, August 31, 2025

A dark comedy about what it takes to re-route your life—and what happens when the wheels come off. The play features two women in their mid-fifties: Sharon, who is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home, and Robyn, who needs a place to hide and a chance to start over. But as Sharon begins to uncover Robyn’s secrets, they encourage her own deep-seated desire to transform her life completely. 

Tickets are HERE.

The Depot Theatre, 6705 Main Street, Westport

The Sembrich presents

Skye Consort & Emma Björling

Touba Foundation World Music Wednesdays

Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 2 pm

Recipients of the prestigious Opus Award for 2019 Album of the Year, Skye Consort & Emma Björling perform trans-Atlantic arrangements of songs and tunes from Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Scotland, England, Québec, Acadia, the USA, as well as original compositions. Each musician brings their own individual interpretation to these traditions to create an extraordinary collaboration, consisting of voices, fiddle, nyckelharpa, cello, bouzouki, banjo, and percussion. Together they produce an assortment of whirling polkas, moving reels, passionate love songs, and breath-taking hymns and songs.

Listen to a previewHERE.

Purchase ticketsHERE.

The Sembrich, 4800 Lake Shore Drive, Bolton Landing

From the Adirondack Center for Writing 

Residents announced named for 2025 the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency

Now in its twelfth year, theAnne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency takes place this September 21 to October 5 at the Lodge on Twitchell Lake near Big Moose, in the heart of the Adirondack Park. Since 2014 we have welcomed over 60 writers to the lake where Anne LaBastille built her cabin and wrote her beloved “Woodswoman” series. Our residents enjoy two weeks of unfettered writing, reading, researching, and relaxation time. 

We are thrilled to announce the next six residents who stood out among a poll of hundreds of applications:

Loree Griffin Burns

Carrie Hall 

Karin Lin-Greenberg

Elizabeth Luciano 

Molly Stewart

Charles Theonia 

Learn more and read the residents’ full bios HERE.

In Case You Missed It

The Elements: Images Of Hope, Part Two

# 126: A Conversation with Dan Keegan

We shared James McElhinney’s interview with Dan Keegan about Dan’s The Elements: Images of Hope, his exhibit at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown (through October 11) in A&E e-News # 577,  August 11, 2025.

You can read that interview HERE.

Today we’re sharing Part 2 of the fascinating article HERE.

Left: Tree of Life. 2025. Graphite on paper. 40 x 60 inches. Right: Dan Keegan.