NT Live - UK's National Theater
Broadcast Live

London’s finest is back for another season in Hudson! For those of you who’ve joined us in the past for MET Operas or last year’s NT Live performances, you may already have a sense of what’s to come. We are very excited about this year’s line up of plays coming to us straight from the UK. Highlights include an encore presentation of last season’s hit Phèdre starring Helen Mirren, Danny Boyle’s (Oscar winning director of Slumdog Millionaire) version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Tony Award winning FELA!, and much more.

NT Live is a groundbreaking initiative by the UK’s National Theatre to broadcast live performances of plays onto cinema screens around the world. See plays put on by one of the most prestigious theaters in the world right here in Hudson – without the airfare. The NT stage performance will be filmed live in high definition and broadcast via satellite to movie theatres and performing arts centers throughout the UK and Europe, and on a time-delay basis to sites in the US including Time & Space Limited.

Please take a look at the line-up, reserve your tickets (see info below), and come join us for these outstanding performances.

Tickets are $22 for adults and $15 for children under 12. Tickets go on sale August 23rd, box office hours M-F 10 am - 4 pm. For more information call 518-822-8448 or email fyi@timeandspace.org

Travelling Light

A new play by Nicholas Wright

How had a twenty-two-year-old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come?

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl - now a famed American film director - looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.

Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas Wright's new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age. The award-winning Antony Sher - whose previous work with the National Theatre includes Primo and Stanley - returns to play Jacob.

Leonardo Live

LEONARDO LIVE is a showcase of the completely sold out Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery in London.

NEW YORK - Beginning February 16, 2012, art lovers around the world will be able to experience LEONARDO LIVE, a satellite-delivered HD presentation of the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan", captured at the U.K. National Gallery.

LEONARDO LIVE offers an unprecedented opportunity for audiences worldwide to experience these da Vinci works. The historic exhibition is sold out in London and, due to the fragility of the paintings, the exhibition cannot tour.

The Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare's furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time. Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

She Stoops to Conquer

To come to my house, to call for what he likes, toturn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, "This house is mine, sir". By all that's impudent it makes me laugh.

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

This little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely, and drives out the absurdities of all the rest of the family. She's mine, she must be mine, or I'm greatly mistaken.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.