Rogovoy Report For October 30, 2015

This weekend the cultural highlights in our region include a kind of multiplatform remix of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, a new stage comedy, an outspoken performance poet, and one of the most famous bands from the South of the Border.

The final days and hours of Laura Palmer, the fictional character whose murder was the central mystery of the original TV series, “Twin Peaks,” will be re-explored in “Keys Open Doors: The Hidden Life of Laura Palmer,” a new film collage with live music in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA tonight at 8pm.

Commissioned by the David Lynch Foundation, “Keys Open Doors” is a new edit mashing up the TV series and film — and the missing pieces — surrounding the mysterious last moments in the life of Laura Palmer, accompanied by a live score by A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, a dark dance-pop band equally inspired by David Lynch and Janet Jackson.

The visual piece is a collage of previously deleted and unreleased footage from Laura Palmer’s final days. More than just the “deleted scenes” feature found on a collector’s box set, these clips provide greater clues into the murder at the center of the TV show and subsequent film.

The new comedy “Holy Laughter” by Catherine Trieschmann receives its first developmental workshop production by WAMTheatre at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield tonight through Sunday, November 22. “Holy Laughter” is a poignant comedy that follows Abigail, an Episcopal priest who finds that the reality of leading a church is radically and hilariously different than what she learned in seminary.

Andrea Gibson, the first winner of the Women's World Poetry Slam, brings her pointed spoken-word poetry to Club Helsinki Hudson tonight at 9pm. Gibson has headlined prestigious performance venues coast to coast with powerful readings on war, class, gender, bullying, white privilege, sexuality, love, and spirituality.

The Obie Award–winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma has been in residence at Bard College, and the group will reveal its latest project, “Life and Times: Episodes 7–9,” part of an epic multi-platform performance work, in the LUMA Theater at the Fisher Center at Bard on Sunday  at 2pm. An epic spectacle nearly a decade in the making, “Life and Times” is a nine-part project that encompasses the genres of musical theater, disco, dance, science fiction, illuminated manuscript, animation, detective drama— and now, in the final three episodes, film.

Tonight, the famed Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club brings its “Adios Tour” to the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) at 8pm. Almost two decades after the release of the original, Grammy Award-winning album and documentary film, the Buena Vista Social Club concludes its stint as ambassadors of Cuban music with concerts featuring several of the original stars from the album and the film.

And finally, the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra will perform works by Beethoven, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Byron Adams in the Fisher Center at Bard on Sunday at 3pm. The concert is part of the Conservatory Sundays series. Under the baton of Leon Botstein, the  Orchestra will perform Byron Adams’s Concerto for violincello; Beethoven’s Symphony No.7; Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration; and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.