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New York Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Dozens of Festival Plays Worth Traveling to This Summer
In and Around New York Just off Manhattan, a full-to-bursting open-air season is already underway at Little Island (through Sept. 28), a park in the Hudson River that looks from afar as if it was built atop a giant's stash of stiletto heels. Highlights include Kate Tarker and Dan Schlosberg's 'The Counterfeit Opera: A Beggar's Opera for a Grifter's City' (through June 15); Sarah Gancher's bluegrass re-envisioning of 'Eugene Onegin,' directed by Rachel Chavkin (July 30-31); and 'The Tune Up,' a music-filled evening of new work by Suzan-Lori Parks (July 30-Aug. 3). And at the newly renovated Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Shakespeare in the Park makes a glittery return with Saheem Ali's production of 'Twelfth Night' (Aug. 7-Sept. 14), starring Lupita Nyong'o as Viola, Sandra Oh as Olivia, Peter Dinklage as Malvolio, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Maria and Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Andrew Aguecheek. Amid the hive of theater development that is Poughkeepsie in summertime, New York Stage and Film's dozen public performances at Marist College (July 11-Aug. 3) include new works by Donja R. Love, Carly Mensch, Hansol Jung, Kirsten Greenidge and John Patrick Shanley, while a reading of Drew Gasparini and Alex Brightman's musical 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' is part of the Powerhouse Theater season (June 20-July 27) at nearby Vassar College. In Garrison, under the tent at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, 'The Comedy of Errors' (June 6-Aug. 2) plays in rep with Thornton Wilder's 'The Matchmaker' (June 8-Aug. 3), followed by Dave Malloy's chamber musical 'Octet' (Aug. 11-Sept. 7). The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, about an hour north of Philadelphia, takes an expansive approach to the Bard. You can see 'Hamlet' (July 9-Aug. 3) and its Tom Stoppard spinoff, 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' (July 17-Aug. 2). Iambic pentameter not your jam? You can also catch the musical 'The Producers' (June 11-29) or the Lorraine Hansberry play 'A Raisin in the Sun' (June 25-July 13). Now that's range. Northeast Western Massachusetts is a travel destination for the Berkshires' hilly beauty and for the summer seasons of its established theaters, including Barrington Stage Company (June 3-Oct. 12), in downtown Pittsfield; Shakespeare & Company (June 19-Oct. 12), in bucolic Lenox; and Berkshire Theater Group (through Oct. 26), in both Pittsfield and Stockbridge. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Skift
2 days ago
- Business
- Skift
United Airlines CEO Shuts Down Talk of a JetBlue Merger
United CEO Scott Kirby has experience with airline mergers, and knows they come with a lot of hassles. United Airlines is not interested in acquiring JetBlue, CEO Scott Kirby said Thursday. 'I'm reluctant to do a merger,' Kirby said at the WSJ Future of Everything event. 'There's other ways to do it.' He pointed to his experience with past mergers, and said that they are difficult, particularly integrating technology and cultures. Kirby was at America West Airlines when it merged with US Airways in 2005 and also oversaw the merger between US Airways and American Airlines. Kirby's comments come after United and JetBlue announced earlier on Thursday that they would launch a partnership to link their loyalty programs. It was widely speculated that JetBlue would partner with United as executives at the New York-based carrier were eager to form a new domestic partnership after the Biden administration sued to end its alliance with American. United Returns to JFK There was also some speculation that the partnership could be a precursor to a United-JetBlue merger. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published a report in April that said United was considering a 'three-phase plan' for its partnership with JetBlue. That plan entailed a basic commercial partnership, which would receive less scrutiny from regulators, then a strategic partnership, and finally, an acquisition. 'What we're looking for is to have a bigger presence for our frequent flyers on both sides of the Hudson,' Kirby said. 'It'd be bigger in places like Boston.' The new partnership also gives United access to slots at JFK for up to seven daily flights. United first pulled out of JFK in 2015 and then again 2022 due to concerns that it wasn't competitive at the airport. Kirby has long eyed a United return to JFK. After United left JFK in 2015, he called it the 'wrong decision.' JetBlue also has a major presence in Boston and south Florida, both markets where United is not a dominant player. 'You can get a lot of the benefits without the mergers, that's what we've done here,' Kirby said at the event. What am I looking at? The performance of airline sector stocks within the ST200. The index includes companies publicly traded across global markets including network carriers, low-cost carriers, and other related companies. The Skift Travel 200 (ST200) combines the financial performance of nearly 200 travel companies worth more than a trillion dollars into a single number. See more airlines sector financial performance. Read the full methodology behind the Skift Travel 200.
Wall Street Journal
3 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Lists Historic Hudson Valley Estate for $9.995 Million
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is listing his historic estate in New York's Hudson Valley for $9.995 million, making it one of the most expensive on the market in the area. Hughes and his husband, political activist Sean Eldridge, paid roughly $6 million for the estate in 2011. The couple spent millions upgrading it, said Hughes, adding that they are 'big hikers' who have been coming to the Hudson Valley for roughly 15 years. The couple got married on the property in 2012 and lived there full time for several years before moving back to Manhattan, using the Hudson Valley property for weekends and vacations, Hughes said. They have two children.
Forbes
3 days ago
- General
- Forbes
Hutton Brickyards: A Hudson River Cabin Retreat Is A Dog Paradise
The 1870s Edgewood Mansion in Kingston, NY is now the Hutton Brickyards main hotel to go along with their riverside cabins. It's a good bet that few New Yorkers have any idea where the bricks all around them in the five boroughs ever came from. Simple answer: A short way up the Hudson River. Today, one of the biggest brick making operations that goes back a century and a half is now the Hutton Brickyards, a retreat made up of comfortable cabins on the river banks. An extra plus is that the 100-acre wooded setting outside of Kingston, New York is a wonderful playland for your dog whom the resort welcomes with their own bed, treats, pet stations and lots of love. The Hudson brick factories were so vast that they employed thousands at any given time, which surely helps account for the city of Kingston's handsome collection of late 19th-century housing stock—largely in brick, of course. The original Hutton Brick Works Company operated from 1865 all the way up, surprisingly, until 1980. Fenced off from the main resort property, three of the work's massive kiln structures still stand, rusty, roofless and covered in vegetation. Hutton's great soaring crane still hangs over the river bank as well, a testament to the mighty machinery that made the Second Industrial Revolution happen (the resort website has great historic photos of it and more). The Hutton Brickyards is large enough that electric carts will take you from the gravel parking areas to your cabin. But you're here for your dog's delight, so just follow the nicely compact black stone dust pathways, along which directional sign post arrows add a rural village-like feel. No surprise that there are broken chunks of brick everywhere, from those that fill gabions as part of the landscaping and building design to those sticking out from the unmanicured natural terrain outside of your back terrace. Along with the ruins of kiln factories, the Hutton Brickyards crane remains from the site's long-ago brick making days. As you sit on your terrace with your dog at your side listening to the wind rustle through enormous Eastern cottonwoods, you'll also hear bullfrogs croaking in the riparian reeds. While birdwatching is among the property's activities to book, you might also download the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin app that will identify dozens of bird species all about (the property Wi-Fi works everywhere). To go with Hutton's original repurposed trailers, larger cabins that were built onsite over the pandemic, rather than being brought in as prefab, have full picture windows and a porch. The tiny homes have Edison bed lamps and there are nicely no TVs in the rooms. Behind sliding barn doors, bathrooms carry Malin + Goetz bath products and sustainable slippers. A turntable has half a dozen vintage records to choose from—anyone for falling asleep to Fleetwood Mac? The property's River Pavilion restaurant and bar, laced with string lights, has an open air barn-like feel and is another great place to while away time, especially once you plop down in an Adirondack chair on the lawn overlooking the river. The property's very cool old crane that was used to transport bricks downriver is a photographer's dream. The menu is as robust as you'd expect from a former industrial site, with a half chicken, skirt steak, wood-fired pizzas and even a melon salad huge enough to satisfy a brick foreman. In homage to the brick making history, cocktails have names that let you know just what prominent city sites were made with Hutton bricks: Empire State Building, Columbia University, Brooklyn Bridge and Yankee Stadium. The modern Hutton Brickyards riverside cabins were built onsite, rather than prefab delivered. Your dog won't join you on all activities, such as in season kayaking, or trying your hand (shoulders?) at archery, both which you'll follow up with a session in the cedar barrel sauna. But hitting a section of the paved Empire State Trail to the new Sojourner Truth State Park river overlook is ideal for a long walk with your hound. Or you can cycle it on one of the property's trail bikes. In a big 2021 property development, Hutton Brickyards turned a local architectural jewel into a major component of their lodging. A few minutes away from the cabins, the 1873 Edgewood Mansion built in Second Empire style sits on a bluff above the river, complete with with a columned porch and crow's nest atop its mansard roof. The house serves as reception for the whole property, and has a dozen rooms, a bar and seasonal restaurant. The Edgewood home, which stayed in the hands of the Cordts family who co-founded Hutton Brickyards until the 1980s, is filled with old paintings, maps and engravings, as well as historic furnishings, chandeliers and grandfather clocks. The whimsical bunny motifs you see are from the hand of the last owner, artist Hunt Slonem. The Hutton Brickyards open-air River Pavilion restaurant and bar, here, is complemented by the main house's Edgewood Restaurant. Edgewood's parlors, its ample lawn, and a fine carriage house with original stables that is under renovation are desirable venues for weddings and corporate retreats. The same is true for down below by the river at the Hutton Brickyards main campus, which has even more space for fairs and festivals they put on. Live music events, such as the upcoming July 31 Damian Marley and Stephen Marley concert, draw thousands. Historic Kingston is minutes away with streets made for walking your pooch even further, whether you head to the Stockade District or the Roundout area with their shops and cafés galore. When you get back to the Hutton Brickyards, Fido will be more than ready for a snooze on your cabin terrace while you enjoy the Hudson River view before you. The Hutton Brickyards cabin pet fee is $75, with a portion donated to a local no-kill pet shelter. Edgewood Mansion is not open to pets.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
Top NYC engineer's welding may have sparked methane on sewage boat, killing him in blast
A top city Environmental Protection engineer killed in a weekend sewage-boat explosion may have accidentally blown himself up by welding near methane, sources told The Post on Monday. An investigation into the death of Raymond Feige, 59, preliminarily found he had been welding on the sludge vessel before the blast Saturday, sources said. Methane from sewage may have got trapped in a tightly enclosed space on the ship — and ignited when it came in contact with the welding torch's flame, according to the sources. The ensuing blast hurled Feige into the Hudson River, trapping him between the sludge boat and a pier outside the North River Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility near 135th Street in Upper Manhattan, authorities have said. Two other DEP employees were rushed to nearby hospitals for treatment after the blast. The potential that the blast had been caused by a welding accident was first raised by the US Coast Guard, which tweeted the incident was 'linked to hot work aboard a dock boat.' Hot work involves processes that can produce a flame or spark, such as welding.
