Wanna be happy? Go to a theater. (Or do two other things.)
This is a funny poll, wholly unscientific, that boosts the idea of theater as a source of happiness. OK, there are two other things on the Top 3, but theater made the list! Here’s a link.
In the Wings
All things theatricalTheater review: ‘The Time of the Cuckoo’
Love swirls around Leona Samish, the lonely American secretary in Arthur Laurents’ comedy “The Time of the Cuckoo” — in a nuanced, delightful production at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls. Love fills the courtyard of the charming Pensione Fioria, a lovely sun-dappled boarding house along a canal in Venice,... Read More →
Theater review: A winning ‘Carnage’
They try. They really do. The two couples in Yasmina’s Reza’s “God of Carnage” — now in a winning production at Hudson Stage Company in Briarcliff Manor through Nov. 19 — really want to get this right, to settle a little dispute between their sons. With civility. Over clafouti and… Read More →
Auditions for Kids: WBT’s “Home for the Holidays”
Got a note from Pia Haas at Westchester Broadway Theatre, which is looking for local kids for its upcoming holiday show. Here’s the notice: Westchester Broadway Theatre will be holding auditions on Thursday Nov. 10 for our upcoming production of a new musical “Home for the Holidays” Seeking local children… Read More →
This week in theater …
There’s a whole lotta theater on stages across the Lower Hudson Valley this weekend. Here’s a sampling: Opening this weekend “Xanadu” — White Plains PAC’s Conservatory students, above, present the send up of the Gene Kelly/Olivia Newton John movie musical, rollerskates and all. 8 p.m., Nov. 4, 5; 2 p.m.,... Read More →
Making up two ‘Rounding Third’ rainouts
Last weekend’s freak storm spared Penguin Rep in Stony Point, but not two Saturday performances of the comedy “Rounding Third.” Producers Joe Brancato and Andrew Horn are adding one performance — at 6 p.m. Nov. 6—to accommodate ticketholders. Here’s the remaining schedule of Richard Dresser’s play about two Little League… Read More →
Parents behaving badly
Some theater groups might shy away from a play that was about to be adapted into a big Hollywood film. Not Briarcliff’s Hudson Stage, which opens Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage” this weekend, about a month before Roman Polanski’s film adaptation — its title shortened to “Carnage” — comes to… Read More →
