SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. â With the summer arts scene almost upon us, I offer a word of advice. Buy your tickets early. A second piece of advice is to learn to love your GPS, as most organizations are experimenting with new venues in order to perform outdoors. This year, very little will be familiar to the audience. - Advertisement - To accommodate federal and state safety guidelines attendance at most venues will be extremely limited. It also appears that the number of performances will shrink as well. And, to find outdoor performance spaces there has been a lot of innovation.