Best Local Events for Adults December

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Best Local Events for Adults December! Take a break from the Holidays at these local events in Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua.

Local! The 1940’s Radio Hour, Arc Stages Pleasantville: Fri-Sun: 11/30-12/2: Arc’s Community Stage presents this holiday play with music by Walton Jones portraying the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on a New York radio station in December 1942 from the Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room. The play in it’s radio show format music, dancing and radio commercials from the era including 40’s hits “Strike Up the Band” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” (147 Wheeler Ave., Pleasantville; www.arcstages.org)

Local! The Foreigner, The Armonk Players, Fri, 11/30-Sun, 12/8: check times: Pia Haas directs this comic romp from Larry Shue. The Foreigner is set in a fishing lodge in rural Georgia and tells the story of a pathologically shy British man named Charlie who pretends that he can’t speak English in order to avoid making conversation with strangers – specifically the other guests at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. When the other guests begin to air their secrets around things go uproariously awry for the “bad guys”, and the “good guys” emerge triumphant. (Whippoorwill Hall, North Castle Public Library, 19 Whippoorwill Rd., East, Armonk; www.armonkplayers.org)

Local! What Fresh Hell Live! ChappPac: Sat, 12/1: 8pm: Comedians Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson bring their hit parenting podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood to a live audience. Ables and Wilson combine their twenty-year friendship, their comic sensibilities and their usually completely opposite approaches to parenting, for a ‘Mom’s Night Out’ full of games, laughs, and maybe even a little parenting advice. (480 Bedford Road, Chappaqua; www.chappaquapac.org)

Chris Botti, Paramount Hudson Valley – Sat, 12/1: 8pm: America’s best-selling jazz/pop trumpeter has had four #1 jazz albums and his album Impressions won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album. He has recorded and performed with Sting, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennet, Lady Gaga, Paul Simon, Joshua Bell, Michale Buble, John Mayer and Aerosmiths’ Steven Tyler. (Paramount Hudson Valley, 1008 Brown St., Peekskill; www.paramounthudsonvalley.com)

Editors Choice! Ceclie McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner, Caramoor, Sat, 12/1: 8pm:Jazz vocalist and Grammy-winner Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Sullivan Fortner return to Caramoor for this special Benefit Concert. NPR Music hailed this jazz voice/piano duo for their “distinct chemistry between two rising stars of their instruments: pianist Sullivan Fortner and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant.” — NPR Music (149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah: www.caramoor.org)

CMS of Lincoln Center: Windstorm, Performing Arts Center, Sat, 12/1: 5pm: An exceptional lineup of CMS wind players and piano tackles a demanding and rewarding repertoire that celebrates the unsurpassable sonic array of a wind quintet. Including works from Mozart, Reicha, Thuille and Aaron Copland’s “New England Countryside” from The City arranged for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn. (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra/Steven Isserlis, Performing Arts Center, Sat 12/8: 5pm: Acclaimed British cellist, Steven Isserlis joins three-time Grammy-winner Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for a program of ROTT, C.P.E. Bach and Schubert’s “Death of a Maiden” arranged by Gustav Mahler. Isserlis is recognized for his command of phrasing and distinctive sound created by using gut strings. Orpheus is renowned as the orchestra without a conductor. (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

Local! Always at The Carlyle, “Bemelmans in Bedford”, Bedford Playhouse, Thurs,12/6: 6:30-9:30pm: A special evening of live entertainment, a “Bemelmans in Bedford” cocktail party and a screening of Always at the Carlyle with a Q&A with Director Matthew Miele. Celebrities from George Clooney to Angelica Huston dish on the storied scene at the upper east side’s Carlyle Hotel in this documentary. (633 Old Post Rd, Bedford; www.befordplayhouse.org)

Local! Four Seasons Alert! Bedford Chamber Concerts, Vivaldi, Wed, 12/12: 8pm: Dr. Anthony Newman’s Bedford Chamber Concerts perform Vivaldi’s Double Concerto, Triple Concerto and The Four Seasons. Dr. Newman was described by Time magazine as “The High Priest of the Harpsichord”. Wynton Marsalis called him “The High Priest of Bach.” Just $40 to see this world-renowned musician. (St. Matthews Episcopal Church, 382 Cantitoe St., Bedford; www.bedfordchamberconcerts.org)

Just Jim Dale: Still Carrying On, The Schoolhouse Theatre, Thurs, 12/13: 8pm & Sat, 12/15: 3 & 8pm: Five-time Tony nominee and Tony Winner for his starring performance in Barnum (with Glenn close), Him Dale brings his one-man show to the 99-seat Schoolhouse Theatre in Croton Falls for three performances. Take a break from the holidays with “The Toast of Broadway”, Jim Dale. – The New York Times. (3 Owens Rd., North Salem; www.schoolhousetheatre.org)

The Weight Band, Tarrytown Music Hall, Sat, 12/15: 8pm: The Weight Band, featuring former The Band members Jim Weider and Randy Ciarlante, performs the The Band’s groundbreaking debut album Music From Big Pink, #34 on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Albums of All Time. Including “The Weight”, “Tears of Rage”, “Chest Fever”, “This Wheel’s on Fire” and “I Shall Be Released”. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Local! Axiel Himalo’s Christmas Fish Tale, Thurs-Sat 12/20-22: 8pm & Sat-Sun, 12/22-23: 3pm: Bram Lewis directs this play by Vincent Park. Lewis describes this play as “a saga about water. This is a tale of sharing. This is a yarn about legends and lies. This is a Christmas story … about people, places, … bread and fish.” Set in there fictitious small Gulf Coast town of Ross Landing on the event of the 15th Annual Mullet Festival and all you can eat fish contest, the tale and the town “hovers someplace between the strange, almost, but not quite, sophisticated but not unsophisticated land of small Southern towns loitering between the wish of Brigadoon and fears of Metropolis.” (3 Owens Rd., North Salem; www.schoolhousetheatre.org)

Moondance, A Tribute to Van Morrison, Tarrytown Music Hall, Fri, 12/28: 8pm: The LA Times called this show “an incredible recreation of the irish legend”. You’ll hear classic tunes such as “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Moondance”, “Domino”, “It Stoned Me”, “Tupelo Honey”, “Wild Night”, “Into The Mystic”, and “Caravan” love that one. We’re “Carrying a Torch” for Van the Man! (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Editor’s Choice! Start Making Sense, Capitol Theatre, Fri, 12/28: 8pm: A live And direct recreation of the legendary Talking Heads’ concert film, Stop Making Sense, performed by tribute Band Start Making Sense. Featured songs from the movie include “Psycho Killer”, “heaven”, “Burning Down the Houe”, “Life During Wartime”, “Once in a Lifetime”. “Take Me to the River” and more! (149 Westchester Ave., Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)

Almost Queen, Paramount Hudson Valley, Mon, 12/31: 9:30pm: Ring in the new year to the sound of the ultimate arena rockers, Queen. Almost Queen’s live show delivers Queen’s rock palace energy, signature four-part harmonies, genuine costumes while serving up anthem after anthem from “We Will Rock You” to “We Are The Champions”, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, “Somebody to Love”, “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Fat Bottomed Girls”. (Paramount Hudson Valley, 1008 Brown St., Peekskill; www.paramounthudsonvalley.com)