When Tony Carlin takes to the stage in “Rabbit Hole” at Hudson Stage Company this weekend, he’ll be doing what Carlins do.

It’s what his father, Tom Carlin, did.

And it’s what his mother — Tony-winner Frances Sternhagen, of “Sex and the City” and “E.R.” fame — and his five siblings continue to do.

The Carlins of New [...]

When the White Plains Performing Arts Center scrapped “Hello, Dolly!” last year, it spelled the end of a great experiment, a home to classic but rarely performed Broadway musicals.

Today, the WPPAC and the Westchester Philharmonic announced a series of chamber concerts at the City Center mall venue next to the multiplex.

The concerts will be Sunday [...]

As “Dad” in “Billy Elliot: The Musical” on Broadway, Greg Jbara is a bear of a man, a gruff miner who can’t understand what would make his son want to dance.

Greg Jbara, the actor, understands the impulse to move, to dance, to sing. He has it and he builds on it, continuing rehearsals long after [...]

Fort Hill Players’ Joan Charischak sent the following

“SEEKING TALENT FOR JANUARY SHOWCASE

How often have you thought,  I was perfect for that role.  I hate auditions!
I have a monologue I’ve always wanted to do.  I’m just dying to sing a solo.
There’s this scene I’d do in a heartbeat.  I’m a dancing fool without a stage.

Well, here’s [...]

Children’s Shakespeare Theater in Palisades has added box-office hours for its fall production of “Much Ado About Nothing.”
The box-office hours at Palisades Presbyterian Church will clear the lines at the door. The box office will be open Nov. 2 from 5 to 9 p.m., Nov. 3 from 5 to 8:30 p.m., Nov. 4 from 4 [...]

If you’re looking for something to do with the kiddos today and tomorrow, Little Village Playhouse presents a haunted house today from 4 to 8 and tomorrow from 3 to 7 at 42 Memorial Plaza in Pleasantville. The suggested donation is $5 and a two-story haunted edible gingerbread house will be raffled off “by Willoughby [...]

We live in a vampire moment: The “Twilight” book series is all the rage; “True Blood” vamps it up on cable; and “Cirque du Freak” is now in theaters.

But Antrim Playhouse director Randy Accardi says they are all branches of the same tree planted by Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, “Dracula.”

This weekend, just in time for [...]

Merman’s in; Minnelli’s not.

Fanny’s in; Barbra’s not.

In decades writing about theater for Playbill magazine and in nearly a dozen books, Robert Viagas has interviewed many stars.

The founder of Playbill.com and host of Playbill Radio, the Mamaroneck resident has had a seat on the aisle to every Broadway show for years, seeing those stars firsthand.

So when [...]

Tom Kitt, a graduate of Byram Hills High School, has been busy with several projects, including writing a musical with Green Day. But he hasn’t put “Next to Normal” behind him.

On Wednesday, Kitt and fellow Tony-winner Brian Yorkey will premiere a new song — “Something I Can’t See — which they wrote with input from [...]

At several points in “Rose” — Martin Sherman’s one-woman show on stage through Nov. 1 at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls — the title character, in the middle of recalling a memory that is becoming painful, disavows it.

“I don’t remember,” she says. “Perhaps I imagined it.”

She might have lived through a pogrom in her [...]

I’ve got some things taped to my rarely visited cubicle that bring me joy when I see them: Pictures of my kids when they were tiny, my daughter Bridget’s charcoal rendering of a tree, and this quote from the NYT obit of Mel Gussow, a theater critic who was a playwright’s champion.

It never fails to [...]

Last night’s gala benefit at the Beach Point Club in Mamaroneck was a great affair, with support coming from all quarters.

The raffle, toward buying a new film projector, pulled in nearly $20,000, thanks in no small part to the cajoling of Debbie Chapin, who also ran the non-silent portion of the evening’s festivities, auctioning off [...]

When some singers rehearse, they need an accompanist, a vocal coach and plenty of quiet.

Singer Liz Callaway just needs a CD and a full tank of gas.

“I do most of my rehearsing in the car so I drive and practice along to piano tracks,” says Callaway, a Broadway veteran of “Miss Saigon” and “Cats.” “People have [...]

When Suzanne Ochs of Dobbs Ferry trekked north to audition for Brewster Theater Company’s “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean,” she didn’t know a lot about the show.

“I had the 6,000-foot view of what it was about: a group of women getting together, anniversary of James Dean, and they talk [...]

Oscar Wilde wrote “Lady Windermere’s Fan” — a skewering of Victorian morals in general and marriage in particular — in 1892, but that doesn’t mean it has to stay there.

Purchase Repertory Theatre presents “Lady Windermere” this week, with performances Tuesday through Sunday. Produced by the senior Acting Company, director David Bassuk has moved the action [...]