Music
Dino-Songs
June 1
One of the megastars of children’s music, Laurie Berkner is famous with the under-seven-set for her hit song “We Are the Dinosaurs.” This month, bring the entire family to Peekskill’s Paramount Hudson Valley Theater to catch Berkner on her Greatest Hits solo tour. Called “the Adele of the preschool crowd” by The New York Times, Berkner boasts more than nine million monthly streams of her merry music and has released 13 albums to date.
World Wide Web
June 1
E.B. White’s inspiring 1952 tale of friendship, bravery, and a barnyard full of animals comes to vivid life during this show at The Ridgefield Playhouse. Recommended for kids age 4 to 10 and featuring eye-catching costumes and sets, this family-friendly play about a spider who comes to the heroic rescue of her pig companion will be performed twice in one day.
On the Mark
June 7
Dubbed “the best up and coming comic” by Jerry Seinfeld, Mark Normand’s one-hour Netflix special, Soup to Nuts, stayed at the top ten of the streaming service’s most watched list for more than a week during the summer of 2023. Catch the New Yorkbased funnyman, who has had six appearances on Conan and four on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, onstage this month when he hits Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre.
Film
Mad House
June 8
Head to the Bedford Playhouse this month to savor one of the funniest films to ever grace the silver screen. Starring Spencer Tracy, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, and Buddy Hackett, Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which was nominated for six Oscars, tells the story of eight vacation-bound motorists who go off in search of a missing fortune.
Art
Family Matters
June 8
Drawing, collage, and sculpture combine to investigate an artist’s Jamaican and West Indian heritage in this exhibition at Ridgefield’s Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Nickola Pottinger: fos born features a new body of work made exclusively for this, her solo museum debut. The show includes pieces constructed from the artist’s heirlooms using pigmented paper pulp from family documents.
Now You See It
June 13
This famed illusionist is the producer and star of his own hit truTV series The Carbonaro Effect, which has filmed more than 100 episodes and currently airs on Max and in syndication by local television stations across the county. A regular on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Michael Carbonaro is known for his hidden-camera magic, in which unsuspecting participants are roped into the action. This month, the talented magician will appear at Peekskill’s Paramount Hudson Valley Theater in his new performance, Carbonaro: Lies on Stage.
Showtime
June 22
The writer, director, and TV personality Demetri Martin is likely a familiar face. He is perhaps best known for his Comedy Central series, Important Things with Demetri Martin, as well as for his four hour-long comedy specials, including The Overthinker for Netflix in 2018. Regaling audiences with a combination of hilarious stories and jokes this month at the Tarrytown Music Hall, Martin previously took home the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh for his one-man show, If I.
Stage
Setting the Stage
June 26
The pianist, actor, writer, and comedian Seth Rudetsky is probably best known for his work in radio, hosting Seth’s Big Fat Broadway on Sirius/XM since 2009. His listeners may not realize Rudetsky is also a celebrated figure on Broadway, serving as pianist and musical director for shows including Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, and Ragtime. During this evening at Katonah’s Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Rudetsky shines a spotlight on the stories of The Great White Way’s queer pioneers, characters, and songs, emphasizing each performer’s profound impact on Broadway today.
