In our annual feature on Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, we list all the local players in & around Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua. Plus nine more that are worth the trip for foodies and road warriors. Read more.

Humorist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Dave Barry returns to his native Armonk for an evening of wit and wisdom at Whippoorwill Hall at The North Castle Public Library. Tickets are limited!  Read more.

Here's one for locavores from Bedford 2020. This Food Forum features a local food expo, fab noshes and presentations from NYT's food reporter Mark Bittman and Chef and Wholesome Wave founder Michel Nischan. Check it out and 24 more March events  online now!

Pianist Jeffrey Biegel performs Mozart, Bach, and Rachmaninoff in South Salem next week. Plus, Gershwin's rarely heard 1924 original manuscript of Rhapsody in Blue with 88 missing measures.  Read more.

Gotham Radio Theatre's ensemble of actors and sound performers reenact plays in vintage radio soundstage style. In this show within a show they perform the Holmes' characters as fictional 1940's stage & screen stars at North Salem's School-house Theatre.  More.

This Broadway World award-winning hit

currently running at Feinstein's/54 Below comes to ARC Stages. Featuring tunes from A Little Night Music, Company, Into the Woods, Follies and more Sondheim!   Read more.

Here's 33 local classical music concerts including The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at PAC, Caramoor, The Westchester Philharmonic, The Stamford Symphony, and hyper-local shows in Bedford, Chappaqua, Mt. Kisco and South Salem. Read more.

Our Spring Theatre & Dance Guide features 30 great performing arts events including Rob Zabrecky, who Penn Gillette called "the first truly funny mentalist". His brand of magic has been compared to Salvatore Dali and filmmaker David Lynch.  Read more. 

A five-time Grammy winner, Dionne Warwick has charted 75 songs and sold over 100 million records with hits like "Message to Michael", "Do You Know the Way to San Jose", "Walk On By", "Anyone Who Had A Heart" and more. See her next week. Read more.

Sanctioned by Peter Gabriel, The Musical Box recreates the original Genesis concert of their seminal album Selling England By The Pound in painstaking detail.  Read more.

More music this week: Pat Benatar and guitar great Tommy Emmanuel play the Tarrytown Music Hall. Melvin Seals performs Jerry Garcia Band set-lists at The Capitol. Jay & The Americans are at The Ridgefield Playhouse. The Australian Bee Gees are at The Paramount.  More.

This standout dance series at The Emelin Theatre features three forward looking dance troupes: Rashoun Mitchdell + Silas Riener, Rioult NY & Souleymane Badalo.  Read more.

Street Smart, the new exhibit opening this week at The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, showcases 30 photographs from their permanent collection that provides a glimpse of life in NYC during the post-war period.  Read more.

Hot ticket alert! The stand out star of season 10 of NBC's America's Got Talent returns to the Paramount. Think Larry David in a dragon suit performing magical tricks with his chihuahua Mr. Piffles.  Read more.

The Shanghai Acrobats perform feats from ancient harvest festivals to the modern era's state of the art circus feats including jugglers, comic knife throwers and the the cyclist who piles ten people on his bike. See them at The Ridgefield Playhouse. 

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Over 400 artworks by high school students from over 40 schools in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Dutchess and Fairfield counties fill the KMA galleries at their annual Young Artists Exhibition that continues this week. Image shown here is from Anna Lao of White Plains HS. Read more.

Maple Sugar season kicks off this week with tree tapping, music, maple sugar treats, crafts, a scavenger hunt, a Teen's Chef Challenge and a pancake breakfast at SMN&C.  More.

There is an art to tasting wine blind and deciphering what's

in the glass. To do it professionally takes years of study. But you can learn some of the basics to increase your ability to make educated guesses. Join Wine Geeks for this fun and informative wine class, The Art of Tasting Wine Blind, where Sommelier Derek Todd shares the tricks of his trade. Sat, 3/18: 7pm. $35 per person. Reservations Required! 914-273-9463. Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk  Read More.

Armonk Tennis Club will hold an Open House for its sports and enrichment summer camps for pre-K through 5th grade on Saturday March 4: 12-2pm.  Read more.

Harvey Cavalier Camp will hold an open house on Sat, 3/4: 10am-2pm at The Harvey School in Katonah. The 125 acre camp features art, crafts, theater, dance, ice skating, swimming, sports, gymnastics  more.

Catching Tony Trischka at the intimate Emelin

Theatre is a hot ticket for bluegrass fans. At the Paramount, The Irish Pops Ensemble joins Celtic Crossings for a St. Pat's celebration. And Grammy HOF-ers, Chicago is at the Palace Theatre in Stamford on March 14.  Mo' music.

In this theatrical production, 15 Irish step dancers retell the mythical tale of King Balor's journey out of the dark world. You can see this step dance spectacular at The Paramount Hudson Valley. Read more. 

Jonathan Demme's Saddle Up Saturdays presents a rare twin bill featuring Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Seven Samurai and John Sturge's The Magnificent Seven starring Steve McQueen, Yul Brenner, Eli Wallach, and Charles Bronson.   

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Akhil Reed Amar, who has been described as "the liberal Yale law school professor who agrees with Scalia" discusses New York State's contributions to the US Constitution at John Jay Homestead. Amar has received Yale's highest award for excellence in teaching. Read more.

Culture-vultures will want to check out these nine Spring Dance recitals including Shen Wei Arts, Stomp, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, the Irish step dancing spectacular Rhythm in the Night, Connecticut Ballet's 30th anniversary celebration and Dance Off The Grid at The Emelin Theatre.   Nine dance events for spring!

Our Spring Theatre Guide features 30 local spring productions of dance, theatre and magic from The Armonk Players' Bad Jews to Jesus Christ Superstar (you can't make this stuff up!) Mama Mia to Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet to Mousetrap at The Lyndhurst Mansion. Plus, The Axial Theatre's Women's One Act Play Festival and Read more.

The Byram Hills High School's Varley Players present Alain Boubil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and James Fenton's musical stage production of Vicgor Hugo's novel Le Miserables for their Spring musical. Read more.

This interactive, theatrical production is based on the hit PBS television series. And it's coming to the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College in March. Check this out and 12 more special kids events on our Spring Guide to What To Do: With the Kids. 

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Also coming in March is Westmoreland Sanctuary's annual SugarFest. Featuring their Maple Sugaring through the ages program and their annual pancake breakfast. 

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 In this musical adaptation of Elizabeth and Victoria Kann's picture books, Pinkalicious contracts Pinkititis from eating too many pink cupcakes. This show from Vital Theatre Co. is for 2 & ups.  More.

A Broadway hit, A Year With Frog & Toad was nominated for 3 Tony Awards. Based on the children's books by Arnold Lobel, this musical follows two friends through four seasons.  Read more.

More Kids Stuff next week: Bedford Rec's Challenge Game Night for grades 3-7. Plus Jay and Ray (Jams for Fams) explore rhythm, melody and movement for kids when they gig out at The Palace Theatre Stamford.  Read more.