What’s happening
Landscaping lecture on June 3 at FDR site
WHAT: Landscaping lecture WHEN: June 3 at 2 p.m.
WHERE: Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4097 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park
DETAILS: The Beatrix Farrand Garden Association will present a lecture titled “The Beauty of Biodiversity: Practical Strategies for More Lush, Abundant and Resilient Plantings” by Thomas Rainer. He is a landscape architect, teacher and author. He is a leading voice in ecological landscape design. He teaches landscape design for the George Washington University landscape design program. A reception, heirloom plant sale and garden boutique will follow at The Garden at Bellefield. Tickets are $45, $35 for association members.
CONTACT: Call (845) 229-9115, ext. 2023, or visit beatrixfarrandgardenhydepark.org for more information.
TheaterSounds presents reading on May 18
WHAT: Staged reading WHEN: May 18 at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Road, town of Ulster
DETAILS: TheaterSounds’ next offering will be a staged reading of “The Owl and The Pussycat,” a two-character comedy by Bill Manhoff. Alan Alda and Diana Sands brought these roles to Broadway. George Segal and Barbra Streisand did them on film. Felix, a clerk in a bookstore and an aspiring but unpublished writer, watches a prostitute named Doris plying her trade outside his window. He complains to the landlord and has her evicted. Insisting she is not a prostitute but an aspiring “model and actress,” Doris pounds on his door, claiming he owes her a bed for the night. The comedy is based on the characters’ deluding themselves by believing they are something they are not. They can see each other’s weaknesses and self-delusion, but not their own. Only when they discover and accept the truth about themselves can they begin to find happiness with each other. Susannah Melone plays Doris, with Jonathan Van Gieson as Felix. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 or more.
CONTACT: Call (917) 673-5825, or visit theatersounds.com or TheaterSounds on Facebook.