2 Best Performing Arts in The Catskills, New York

In a pretty building along the main drag, the Doctorow Center for the Performing Arts multi-arts complex hosts an active program of music, dance, and theater events. Besides performances in the Evelyn Weisberg Concert Hall, there are also first-run movies at the Mountain Cinema and a one-of-a-kind collection of historic pianos at the Catskill Mountain Foundation Piano Performance Museum.

The Frank W. Cyr Center inhabits the former Rexmere Hotel, which was built in 1898 by local hotel magnate Dr. Stephen E. Churchill. Surrounding the center is the 100-acre Churchill Park, which Churchill created complete with man-made lakes, tree clusters, meadows, and idyllic summer homes. Local arts organizations utilize the center. The Friends of Music present classical-music concerts using a Steinway grand piano flanked by Corinthian columns, and the Mt. Utsayantha Arts League hangs regional artists' works in the gallery space. (Otsego-Northern Catskills BOCES and various administrative offices occupy other parts of the building.) On the back porch are rocking chairs from which you can survey the park's lakes and groves.