Ayad Akhtar – Bookstock Literary Festival (Lecture and Book Signing Cancelled)
Woodstock Town Hall Theatre 31 The Green, Woodstock, VT, United StatesPentangle Arts and Bookstock VT are pleased to present award-winning novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Ayad Akhtar, as the keynote speaker of the Bookstock Literary Festival, Saturday, June 25, 2022 in the Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. A reception for the author and book signing will take place following the engagement
The Babushkas of Chernobyl
Virtual30 years after the Chernobyl disaster, some 100 women fiercely cling to their ancestral homeland inside the radioactive “Exclusion Zone.” While most of their neighbors have long since fled and their husbands have gradually died off, this stubborn sisterhood is hanging on — even, oddly, thriving — while trying to cultivate an existence on toxic earth.
Jurassic World: Dominion (PG-13)
Woodstock Town Hall Theatre 31 The Green, Woodstock, VT, United StatesThis summer, experience the epic conclusion to the Jurassic era as two generations unite for the first time. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by Oscar®-winner Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill in Jurassic World Dominion, a bold, timely and breathtaking new adventure that spans the globe. From Jurassic World architect and director Colin Trevorrow, Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live--and hunt--alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.
Astral Projections Presents: They Live
Woodstock Town Hall Theatre 31 The Green, Woodstock, VT, United StatesNada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
Woodstock Town Hall Theatre 31 The Green, Woodstock, VT, United StatesThor: Love and Thunder finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he's ever faced - a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi) and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who - to Thor's surprise - inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher's vengeance and stop him before it's too late.