In the Wings

Nyack writer’s comedy drawn from his experience with Darren McGavin Nyack playwright Tom Dudzick might have grown up in Buffalo, but he rightly calls Stony Point’s Penguin Rep Theatre his artistic home. For three summers running, the barn theater has presented Dudzick’s plays “Miracle on South Division Street,” “Over the… Read More →

Kid-friendly first-act-only matinee will have everyone home before dark The cast of “Into The Woods,” in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production, directed by Timothy Sheader with co-direction by Liam Steel. (Photo by Joan Marcus.) If you’ve seen Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods,” you know… Read More →

Broadway’s cheerleading musical opens Wednesday Photo by Michael Meseke: The creative team behind Broadway’s “Bring It On: The Musical” includes, from left: Lin-Manuel Miranda (music and lyrics), Alex Lacamoire (music supervisor), Andy Blankenbuehler (director, choreographer), Jeff Whitty (book), Tom Kitt (music, arrangements, orchestrations), and Amanda Green (lyrics). Tom Kitt couldn’t… Read More →

Liz Callaway hates me because, when she told me the weekend she has waiting for her, I laughed out loud. “I hate you for laughing at me,” the Tony nominee says, laughing. “You can put that in your article.” As she enters a four-show weekend playing a certifiably crazy woman,... Read More →

Beat the heat with an island adventure this weekend During the school year, Kathleen Donovan-Warren directs at Pleasantville High School. In summer, she heads to Briarcliff, where this weekend the Summercllff Players are readying “Once On This Island”—the Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens adaptation of “The Little Mermaid” story with… Read More →

New Rochelle native to play Stepinac’s Major Bowes Theater on Friday night New Rochelle’s John Michael Coppola has a thing for Jersey. He was in the Chicago company of “Jersey Boys” and has an affinity for Jersey singers. On Friday at 8, he’ll perform his cabaret act—“A Jersey Voice: Sinatra… Read More →

Youth theaters prepare a busy few weekends (The cast of “I Want It All” in rehearsal. Photo courtesy Cal Chiang.) If you’re suffering from “Glee” withdrawal this summer, writers-directors-choreographers Deborah Ivry and Cal Chiang have come up with “I Want It All,” a “Glee”-type production starring a diverse group of… Read More →

Co-production with Harrison Summer Theater will star Zoe Kassay If you missed “Legally Blonde” at Westchester Broadway Theatre this spring, or at Yorktown Stage last month, the third time may be a charm, as White Plains PAC and Harrison Summer Theater present their take on the musical Aug. 3-5. The… Read More →

Long-time WBT and WPPAC player returns to Broadway Broadway star Robert Cuccioli, best known for winning the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards (and being nominated for a Tony) for pulling double duty in “Jekkyl & Hyde,” will  return to Broadway and play two characters again starting Aug. 7… Read More →

Play, culled from WWII letters, will be read in Yonkers on July 11                   We live in an instant age, when Facebook and Twitter turn what we had for dinner into what passes for news, delivered with the click of a mouse…. Read More →

Zingers fly at Boscobel in polished ‘Love’s Labours Lost’ (Alex Adrian Johnson and Denise Cormier in “Love’s Labours Lost” at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, now in repertory with “Romeo and Juliet” and “The 39 Steps” through Labor Day weekend. Photo by William Marsh.) “Love’s Labours Lost” — now in a… Read More →