A rhinoceros has been seen barreling down the rues of  Berenger’s French village.

Before long, there’s a crash of rhinos roaming the town, and his neighbors are disappearing.

How absurd.

Peekskill’s Mighty Theater, the resident company of the Paramount Center for the Arts, presents Eugene Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros” Saturday at the refurbished moviehouse.

Bill Stutler and Bob Funking have a hit on their hands.

The Westchester Broadway Theatre impresarios announced that they’ll extend “I Love You. You’re Perfect, Now Change” into September and skip a planned production of “Beehive.” “Perfect” will now run through Sept. 19.

Read my review here.

Jeff Seabaugh lives in Cortlandt Manor with his partner and the three siblings they adopted from the foster-care system.

In a case of write-what-you-know, Seabaugh — an actor, director and playwright — premieres his new work, “How to Make an American Family” at Midtown International Theatre Festival.

Playwright James O’Connor, who grew up in Pelham Manor, gets a big break next week when his play “Christmas Guest,” is part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival.

Beatrice and Benedick, the battling lovers at the heart of “Much Ado About Nothing,” are — to  twist the bailout parlance — too big not to fail.
Their pride is monumental, their certainty Himalayan, their vows never to marry too strident not to be served back to them on a platter.

Christina Colangelo—of the theater-loving Linen-Colangelo-Cribari Theater Syndicate—dropped me a line about Port Chester Council for the Arts’ upcoming show.

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Even in life’s smallest encounters we are surrounded by good and bad: the woman who lets your kid go before her in line at King Kone; the guy who cuts you off at the tolls on the Tappan Zee Bridge.

There are Mother Teresas and there are Bernie Madoffs.

Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” — now in repertory at the excellent Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival — ratchets up these moments of good and bad.

Stephen Ferri got in touch yesterday. The recent Harrison High School grad doesn’t know how to take a break! He just played “Songs for a New World” and he’s one of the minds behind Harrison High School Summer Theater, which will present “All Shook Up” in the high school’s new theater Aug. 7, 8 and 9.

You can get a taste of Clarkstown Summer Theatre Festival’s upcoming production of “All Shook Up” — free of charge — at the Palisades Center Mall on July 25 from 1:30 to 4 p.m.

Broadway veteran John Treacy Egan first met Will Nunziata on a Metro-North train years ago, when Will approached him and said, “Aren’t you the guy from ‘The Producers’?”

They chatted for a while and went their separate ways.

The next time Egan met Nunziata, Egan started the conversation, but Will acted as if he didn’t know him.

That’s because it wasn’t Will. It was his twin brother, Anthony.

Fast forward a couple of years and the Nunziatas will be working for Egan, appearing at the venue he has been booking: Cabaret at the Caste in Tarrytown.

The 20-something Pelham Manor twins have been making inroads in the cabaret world. They’ll play Michael Feinstein’s swank Midtown club in the fall.

Be careful when you settle into your seat at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival this summer.

If you’re there to see “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” your usher might show up in the show.

The guy sitting next to you might show up in the show.

Heck, you might show up in the show.

“Abridged” is two hours and 15 minutes of laughs, pratfalls and audience participation: Three actors of the highest caliber present Shakespeare’s entire canon — as if shot out of a cannon.

Pat Hazell has his own WABAC machine — and he’s not afraid to use it.

If you remember Mr. Peabody, the bow-tied dog with a pet boy named Sherman on “The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show,” you’ll get the WABAC reference — and you are right in Pat Hazell’s target audience for “The Wonder Bread Years,” on stage at Penguin Rep in Stony Point through July 19.

If you don’t get the reference — or weren’t in your formative years in the ’60s and ’70s — you might feel a bit lost at times during Hazell’s one-man show.

But there’s still plenty to like about the charming bit of escape he offers.