White Plains Performing Arts Center follows the world premiere of the Laurence Holzman-Felicia Needleman musical “Wallenberg” with the Westchester premiere of another Holzman-Needleman musical, the sketch comedy Christmas-Hanukkah-New Year’s musical “That Time of the Year.” Dec. 2-19. 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. $49, $39 for previews…. Read More →
A site-specific “Christmas Carol” holds forth at Westchester Broadway Theatre from Dec. 1 through 26 in Jean-Paul Richard’s new musical, “A Sleepy Hollow Christmas Carol,” a mashup of Dickens and Washington Irving. Scrooge — played by David Edwards, replacing John Treacy Egan, who left the show last week — prowls… Read More →
Terrence O’Brien, artistic director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival — which fills summers with wonder in a tent outside the Boscobel mansion in Garrison — takes his act inside the mansion, with a staged reading of his adaptation of “A Christmas Carol.” “The Holiday Party with the Fezziwigs,” as… Read More →
Armonk Players’ production of “It Happened One Christmas Eve” — opening this week for a two-weekend run — is a musical of plenty. There are plenty of accents: English, Irish, Boston, Brooklyn and Romanian. There are plenty of story lines among a house full of interesting characters — an Irish… Read More →
Will Ferrell may have created Buddy in the 2003 film, “Elf,” but it’s Sebastian Arcelus who has to fill those curly-toed shoes eight shows a week in “Elf, the Musical,” onstage at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre through Jan. 2. Finding Buddy has been the task of Arcelus and the creative… Read More →
Sometimes, it’s good to hear again how valuable theater can be. Thanks, Terry O’Brien, for sharing. Stage Matters from Theatre Communications Group on Vimeo.
Apparently, the folks at Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church have canceled plans to protest outside Nyack High School’s production of “The Laramie Project” this weekend. Read my colleague Khurram Saeed’s story here. “The Laramie Project,” 8 p.m., Nov. 19 and 20; Nyack High School, Christian Herald Road, Upper Nyack. $10,... Read More →
A lot of Christmas traditions start up north. This year’s Macy’s holiday window displays — a New York Christmas tradition — are no exception. OK, they didn’t start all the way north, not as far as the North Pole, but 62 miles north of Herald Square: at PRG Scenic Technologies… Read More →
Bedford’s Dori Berinstein is a Tony-winning producer (“Thoroughly Modern Millie”) who also made an award-winning documentary film about Broadway (“ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway”). “I love trivia and I love Broadway,” she says. Who better, then, to create “The Broadway Challenge,” a new app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod… Read More →
From drama to musicals to staged readings and history, stages offer a cornucopia of pre-Thanksgiving offerings. Here’s a sampling: • “The Laramie Project,” 8 p.m. Nov. 19 and 20. Nyack High School, Christian Herald Road, Upper Nyack. $10, $7 students at the door only. 845-353-7100. • The Small Town Theatre… Read More →
This weekend, 12 years after the beating death of gay college student Matthew Shepard, Nyack High School presents “The Laramie Project” — the play based on 200 interviews conducted by members of the Tectonic Theater Project. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Saturday’s show is expected to have… Read More →
Until last weekend, the first thing most people might have noticed about Scarsdale High School senior Sam Gonzalez was his hair. It was something to behold: He hadn’t cut it since June and it had grown into long, kinky locks that added inches to his height. Not this weekend. Gonzalez… Read More →
Opening this weekend • ”Fiddler on the Roof” at Yorktown Stage, 7 p.m. Nov. 13, 20 and 27, at 2 p.m. Nov. 14, 21, 26, 27 and 28. $25; $23 for Yorktown residents; $21 for seniors and students 12-22; $19 for children younger than 12. At 1974 Commerce St., Yorktown Heights…. Read More →
Craig Schulman plays title characters. He was Jekyll and Hyde in “Jekyll & Hyde,” the Phantom in “The Phantom of the Opera” and Jean Valjean in more than 2,000 performances of “Les Miserables,” on Broadway and around the world. OK, Jean isn’t technically a “Miserables,” but it’s Valjean’s story. Likewise,... Read More →
Most theater companies might not let on but they operate by the seat of their pants. Paul Romanello’s newest venture shouts it from the rooftops. Pelham Manor’s SOOP Theatre Co. — as in “Seat Of Our Pants” Theater Company — presents Jason Robert Brown’s musical “13” (which is kind of… Read More →
Ellen Burstyn, the winner of acting’s Triple Crown — an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy — prides herself on her memory. In her 2006 memoir, “Lessons in Becoming Myself,” she recalls: “John Gielgud once said to me, ‘Memory is like any muscle. It must be exercised.’ I have trained… Read More →
Paul Andrew Perez and John Burton dream big. They dream that the venture they launched this fall —Main Street Arts Childrens Theater in Bedford Hills — will become an arts center without peer. They dream that next summer their troupe will tour the Italian coast, with “You’re a Good Man,... Read More →
The first in a series of “Conversations at 7” at White Plains Performing Arts Center is this weekend. Armonk’s Tom Kitt, who won the Tony and the Pulitzer for composing “Next to Normal,” and who wrote the orchestrations for Green Day’s “American Idiot,” will answer questions, joined by Jenn Colella, who… Read More →
Local stages are hopping with new productions this weekend. Here’s a sampling: “Welcome: This is a Neighborhood Watch Community,” weekends through Nov. 21. 8 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays; 4 p.m., Sundays. $20, $15 for students and seniors. For preview performances Nov. 4 and 5, $15. There is an opening-night reception… Read More →
Bless him, Father, for he has sinned. And sinned. And sinned. Jack Grace is eager to confess his every petty crime and misdemeanor in James McLindon’s funny and fast “Salvation,” a black comedy in its world premiere at Briarcliff’s Hudson Stage Company. He might be a bit too eager to… Read More →
There’s a tug-of-war going on for the heart and mind of 16-year-old Justin Campbell in Howard Meyer’s new play “Welcome: This is a Neighborhood Watch Community,” opening this week at Pleasantville’s Axial Theater. There’s his father: the successful hedge-fund manager Harris Campbell, a solid if detached provider. And there’s his… Read More →
