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Artist, author, and director Michael Lindsay-Hogg helped create some of the most iconic moments in popular culture. Now based in Hudson, New York, Lindsay-Hogg’s talent as a self-taught artist is being celebrated with a solo exhibition at Hudson Hall entitled "Talking Pictures." On May 4, Hudson Hall will present a screening of "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" with a discussion and poster signing with Lindsay-Hogg and Melissa Auf der Maur.

On October 3, 2011, Chinese-American Army Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in a guard tower at his base in Afghanistan. The opera “An American Soldier” is based on his story and the ensuing courts-martial of Chen’s fellow soldiers. “An American Solider” is having its New York City premiere at PAC NYC May 12-19 in a new 2024 version co-commissioned by PAC NYC and Boston Lyric Opera. Composed by Huang Ruo, “An American Solider” features a libretto by our guest, David Henry Hwang.

The 2024 Williamstown Theatre Festival season is interim Artistic Director Jenny Gersten’s final season at the helm of WTF. We welcome Jenny Gersten and Raphael Picciarelli - WTF’s Managing Director, Strategy & Transformation with a preview.

This week's Book Picks come from Amy Zimmerman from Chatham Bookstore in Chatham, New York and Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books in Rhinebeck and Millerton, New York.

This weekend, PAC NYC presents “Number Our Days: A Photographic Oratorio.” With music by Luna Pearl Woolf, a Concept and Libretto by David Van Taylor, “Number Our Days” is based on Jamie Livingston’s 18 year long “Photo Of the Day” project.

Albany Pro Musica will perform J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor on April 28 at 3 p.m. at The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. They will be joined by renowned guest soloists and experts in historically informed performance who play in period-instrument orchestras such as the Handel + Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, Trinity Baroque, and others.Albany Pro Musica’s current season marks Maestro José Daniel Flores-Caraballo’s 10th anniversary with APM. He joins us this morning along with Bass/Baritone Michael Wolff.

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist “The New York Times” bestselling author and newly crowned Newbery prize winner Dave Eggers, “Soren’s Seventh Song” is a deadpan take on creativity and persistence. It is told through the eyes of a humpback whale looking for a new song.

The current revival of “Merrily We Roll Along” is a sensation of this Broadway season - the production is actor, composer, writer and activist Krystal Joy Brown’s sixth Broadway show. She plays Gussie and her portrayal is stunning, sultry, and dimensional.

"In the Court of Three Popes" (Image) by Mary Ann Glendon is a rare firsthand account of the three popes who worked to modernize the Catholic Church and to evangelize the modern world. Glendon is a renowned international lawyer, Harvard law professor, and former ambassador to the Vatican.

Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. His latest, "And Then? And Then? What Else?" is a book not just for anyone curious about the creator of Lemony Snicket, but for anyone who loved books when they were a child, and still loves them now.