This year’s program for Philadelphia Orchestra’s summer residency has again proven legendary—as in John Legend-ary. (Sorry, we couldn’t resist.)
Tickets have been selling fast for...
Life oftentimes comes full circle. That’s the case for Orange County–based painter Jessica Leonard, who grew up near Saratoga Springs and still comes back...
Experience the breathtaking beauty and spirited essence of horses through the lens of acclaimed photographer Jesse Frohman, whose latest exhibition, entitled "Equine Elegance," will...
Saratoga Springs might be the next off-off Broadway hotspot. No joke. That’s the vision of Ari Edelson, Artistic Director of New York City–based The...
Even though she’s never composed an opera before, that won’t stop award-winning, NYC composer inti figgis-vizueta from writing one—in a tight six-week window no...
The great choreographer George Balanchine not only created the New York City Ballet (NYCB) to rival the great companies in Europe, but he solidified...
Move over, Hollywood. Many filmmakers have a new cinema hotspot they’re hitting up these days: Saratoga Springs. “I’ve found that the Capital Region public...
Exactly 100 years ago this year, internationally renowned Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich (1858-1935) opened a teaching studio in a Spanish revival building on a...
Before the swinging, gambling-themed summer season kicks off with great fanfare, Opera Saratoga welcomes three powerful contemporary works collectively called Listen to This. These...
Ahead of a busy winter events schedule, the producers of CulinaryArts@SPAC—Kim Klopstock an Pam Abrams—sit down with SPAC President Elizabeth Sobol.
Saratoga Living: SPAC’s CulinaryArts...
While it may look like Nick Martinez’s yearly paintings of Saratoga Race Course are “just” a collection of eye-catching scenes from the track, there’s...
Photography by Dori Fitzpatrick
Mary Birnbaum has been busy. Opera Saratoga’s new general and artistic director could have coasted for a bit after starting her...
Photography by Erin Baiano
It’s not summer in Saratoga until the strains of classical music start pouring out of Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC). Ballet...
MYSTERY
Witch Window: A Murder on Skis Mystery
By Phil Bayly
Phil Bayly’s fourth novel in his Murder on Skis mystery series follows a television reporter’s inexplicable...
Bookmark this one, bibliophiles: The second annual Saratoga Book Festival is hitting downtown October 21 and 22, with engaging keynotes, panel discussions, readings, interviews,...
Nonfiction
New York’s Greatest Thoroughbreds: A Contemporary History
By Allan Carter
In addition to being home to some of horse racing’s most historic and important tracks, New...
It’s hard not to smile when you look at Terry Decorah’s Lego minifigure photography. There’s just something inexplicably endearing about a ceaselessly smiley, tiny...
Mystery: Deadly Reputation
By David K. Wilson
Author David K. Wilson has just released the fourth installment in his Sam Lawson series. Part mystery, part comedy, the...
When it comes to the sheer talent possessed by Ledisi, the genre-fluid powerhouse singer-songwriter who’s coming to SPAC not once but twice this summer,...
Mostly Modern Festival (MMF) was born when classical music powerhouses Robert and Victoria Paterson (he’s a composer, she’s a violinist) were looking for a...
This past April, Saratoga-based trio Warden and Company released its first full-length album, an insanely catchy, sing-along-able 11-track folk/rock debut called Somewhere, to rave...
In a comeback classical season that’s about as buzzed-about and fanfare-filled as it could possibly get, there’s no denying that Yo-Yo Ma’s return to...
Opera fans may remember that last year, due to concerns about performing indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic, Opera Saratoga took its 60th Anniversary Season...
New York City Ballet (NYCB) principal dancer Sterling Hyltin is preparing for her bittersweet final Saratoga performance—she’s sad to be saying goodbye but thrilled...
We Shall Not Shatter
By Elaine Stock
Elaine Stock’s tug-at-your-heartstrings historical novel We Shall Not Shatter follows the story of friends Zofia and Aanya on the...
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
Directed by Chris Stearns
Written by Tom Mercer and Anthony Vertucci
Release Date: November 2, 2021
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed is a must-see visual...
Save-the-dates, invitations, a painstakingly planned seating chart, perfect place settings and…wedding maps? Yep, while traditional road maps have been all but obsolete for the...
Strange Appetites
By Lâle Davidson
Saratogian Lâle Davidson’s Strange Appetites is a surreal and magical collection of stories. Davidson, an accomplished professor who has taught writing...
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) excitedly announces its first full classical season in two years, with a spectacular and diverse program starring world-renowned...
Queens of England have long commissioned artists to paint important wedding ceremonies. Now brides in the Capital Region are enjoying the trend, regally having their...
Local author and SUNY Adirondack professor Lâle Davidson will be coming to Northshire Bookstore on December 9 from 5:30-6:30pm to discuss two of her...
Saratoga Springs has long been a destination for celebrated authors, whether they're coming for a talk and book signing at Northshire, Skidmore College's Summer...
The Zac Brown Band (ZBB) was a late-season mainstay at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in pre-pandemic years—sort of a post–Dave Matthews Band...
Talk about an "inaugural" visiting artist. The Saratoga Performing Arts Center's soon-to-open School of the Arts just landed its first visiting artist, poet Richard...
After a difficult 2020-21 for most Saratoga Springs small businesses, let’s start off by giving them all—the shops, restaurants, firms, salons, practices, nonprofits, et...
If you’re looking for paintings of thundering Thoroughbreds or statues spitting and spatting, Saratoga artist Zack Lobdell is not your guy—even though a younger...
People take new jobs for all sorts of reasons: Sometimes it’s for better pay, sometimes it’s for better benefits. For Louise Kerr, executive director...
Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Charles Shedden, a.k.a. OWVBICS (don't try to pronounce it; that's part of the fun), has been creating abstract/surrealist art for over...
Attention young artists of the Capital Region: School just got way cooler. The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) last week announced that it will...
Just a few years removed from playing in the Saratoga Springs High School jazz band—an ensemble that also included Figgs co-founder Pete Donnelly—drummer and...
Live events are officially back, and Live Nation is helping soon-to-be concert-goers celebrate. On Thursday, the entertainment company announced its "Return to Live" ticket...
Saratoga Springs native Scott Underwood knows a thing or two about giving back. As the former drummer of Grammy-winning alternative rock band Train—they of...
The New York City Ballet (NYCB) has finally returned! Monday marked the famed dance company's annual load-in at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC),...
Saratoga recently saw the return of its performing arts scene—see: Saratoga Jazz Fest, Opera Saratoga and Live Nation show announcements aplenty. But tomorrow, July...
When the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) canceled last year's Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival for the first time in 42 years—or at least the...
The course of true love never did run smooth—unless it included dinner. The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) will host a fundraiser, entitled “A...
The worst-kept secret in our area? There are tons of amazingly well-manicured "secret" gardens all over Saratoga County, whose green-thumbed garden-masters keep them looking...
In March of 1988, a 23-year-old Robert Weide—later a multiple Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated director and producer, whose credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm—boarded a train...
What a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge loss for Upstate New York. Car dealer Billy Fuccillo, best known for his advertisements with the "HUGE!" tagline, has died at...
One family with prominent Capital Region ancestors—and an unforgettable connection to Saratoga Springs and its racetrack—is looking for locals' help to solve a decades-old...
Heading out on your first vacation in two years? Make sure to bring along these three beach reads by Saratoga authors.
All Girls
by Emily Layden
Layden,...
According to Opera Saratoga’s Artistic and General Director Lawrence Edelson, the most impressive thing about the company’s 60th anniversary celebration this summer is not...
Fifty-something Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes was, by all accounts, an abject failure when he published the first part of what would become his epic...
There’s something special—some would say magical—about summer in Saratoga. The Congress Park ducks carelessly stopping traffic on Broadway, the possibility of winning big on...
Looking to add something a little more environmentally relevant to your afternoon strolls through the Saratoga Spa State Park? The Saratoga Performing Arts Center...
You could call it "The One Where Everybody Reunites." The long-rumored HBO Max Friends reunion special, which was executive produced by Saratoga County resident...
If you've caught any of the first four seasons of MGM/Hulu's 15-time Emmy Award–winning series The Handmaid's Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), you'll...
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) hasn't even made any official announcement regarding a 2021 Live Nation summer season, but it looks like Saratogians...
After being forced to cancel its entire classical season last year due to COVID—and hosting nary a Live Nation act—the Saratoga Performing Arts Center...
