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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!

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.

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 [...]

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.