Downtown Upstate Theater Festival

Staged at the Stissing Center for Arts and Culture in Pine Plains and the Ancram Center for the Arts in neighboring Ancram, local Robert Lyons is producing the first annual Downtown Upstate Theater Festival. The three-weekend festival of experimental theater will present three intriguing works: Marguerite Duras’s “La Musica Deuxieme” directed by Jessica Burr (September 7-8); Gertude Stein’s “Plays” directed by David Greenspan (September 21-22); and Lyons’s “Puzzling Evidence,” which he will direct (September 14). Playwright and actor Leonora Champagne will also offer a free workshop on solo and alternative performances. September 7-22.