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Peter D. Kramer

Peter D. KramerPete has loved theater his whole life, ever since he played Santa Claus in third grade at Palisades Elementary School. A Rockland County native and 20-year employee of The Journal News, Pete now alerts theater lovers to the possibilities and talks to artists young and old about their craft. A former actor, director, technical director, ticket-taker and bon vivant, Pete has put a theater life behind him, living vicariously through those he interviews. He's married to his ever-patient wife, Carla. Together, they are raising a theatrical family of their own: Bridget, Claire, Joseph and Jack.

E-mail Peter D. Kramer at pkramer@lohud.com

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Theater review: “Pericles, Prince of Tyre”

July
3

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 [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on July 3rd, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Apparently, everybody’s “All Shook Up”

July
2

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 [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on July 2nd, 2009 | Post a Comment »

“Summer Theater” gets “All Shook Up”

July
1

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

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on July 1st, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Seeing double at The Castle cabaret

July
1

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 [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on July 1st, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Theater review: What a piece of work is “Abridged”

July
1

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 [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on July 1st, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Theater review: Relocate your “Wonder”

July
1

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 [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on July 1st, 2009 | Post a Comment »

The Jimmys, the morning after

June
30

Last night’s inaugural National High School Musical Theater Awards ceremony at NYU’s Skirball Center was a celebration of high-school musicals and of the patriarch of the Nederlander group, James M. Nederlander, a lifelong theatrical impresario who is still going at it after nearly 70 years in the business.

First, the news. The winners of the first-ever [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 30th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Brewster Theater Co. has its “Birdie” cast

June
30

 
Brewster Theater Company reached out with news about their summer production of “Bye, Bye, Birdie.”

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 30th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Rehearsals for The Jimmys

June
29

Got a sneak peek this morning at the opening and closing numbers for tonight’s inaugural National High School Musical Theater Awards at NYU: 32 kids absolutely GOING FOR IT.

For those of you accustomed to the Metropolitan Awards (ever The Helens), this is a different sort of awards show. It’s modeled after the Gene Kelly Awards, [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 29th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Stepinac’s Alumni perform “Grease!”

June
29

At Stepinac, graduation doesn’t end theater. The Stepinac Alumni Theatre presents “Grease!” at Archbishop Stepinac High School, Major Bowes Theater, 950 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, July 15-18 at 7:30 p.m. and July 19 at 5 p.m. $15 for adults and students, $10 seniors and children under 12. Tickets are available in advance and at the [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 29th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

NHSMTAs, Day 3: Medleys and solos

June
28

Here’s a dispatch from Michelle Rubich at the National High School Musical Theater Awards:
Well, yesterday started off great! We blocked the finale of the the show, and the “medley” group that I’m in. It’s really cute, and the choreographer claims, “you definitely have the best medley”. After blocking for three hours, we worked on our [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 28th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

NHSMTAs, Day 2: Michelle’s dispatch

June
27

Michelle Rubich of Briarcliff, reporting from Day 2 of the National High School Musical Theater Awards:

The morning started off rough, considering we were staging our opening at 9 a.m., but we finished it in in two hours, and it looks incredible!

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 27th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Day 2 at the NHSMTAs: Aaron’s dispatch

June
27

Here’s Aaron Sauer’s post from Day 2 at the National High School Musical Theater Awards, sent after breakfast this morning:

So, as I had hoped, breakfast was delicious.

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 27th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Don’t ‘Change’ a thing

June
26

It would be easy to dismiss “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” — now in an excellent production at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford — as a sweet little confection.

After all, it has been called “Seinfeld set to music,” and wasn’t “Seinfeld” a show about nothing?

But this charming revue is about something big, modern [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 26th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

A dispatch from The Jimmys

June
26

Michelle Rubich of Briarcliff and Aaron Sauer of Sloatsburg woke up at NYU this morning, ready for Day 2 of the National High School Musical Theater Awards.

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on June 26th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

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    Peter D. KramerPeter D. Kramer has loved theater his whole life. A Rockland County native and 19-year employee of The Journal News, Pete relishes his current role, alerting theater lovers to the possibilities and talking to artists young and old about their craft. A former actor, director, technical director, ticket-taker and bon vivant, Pete has put a theater life behind him, living vicariously through those he interviews.

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