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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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In Nyack, “Is He Dead?”

November
18

Nyack High School presents the Mark Twain-David Ives play “Is He Dead?” which played New York a couple of seasons back. It’s about an artist who fakes his death to add value to his works. He dresses as a woman, to hilarious results. Nov. 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. $10, $5 students. Tickets are [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 18th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Auditions: “For Better”

November
18

OK, these are kind of down the line, but director Melinda O’Brien will hold auditions for Fort Hill Players production of “For Better” — Eric Coble’s “bright new farce about love in the Age of Twitter.”

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 18th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

“Alice,” earlier

November
17

Rye Country Day’s director Cary Fuller writes this morning that he’s moved up the curtain for the Andre Gregory adaptation of  ”Alice in Wonderland” to 7:30 p.m.

That’s Nov. 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. $5. Rye Country Day is on Cedar Street in Rye.

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 17th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Inaugural clarinetist to play Westchester

November
16

Just got word that Anthony McGill, the Metropolitan Opera clarinetist who’ll play with the Westchester Philharmonic next weekend, will visit the Rye schools on Nov. 19.

He’ll spend the morning at Rye High School and Middle School giving
lecture-demonstrations to clarinet students. In the afternoon, he will visit the Osborn, Milton and Midland Middle Schools talking to [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 16th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

A great start for Emelin theater

November
16

I caught “The Rivalry”—about the Lincoln-Douglas debates—at the Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck on Saturday, the first in what I hope will be a long line of nights of great theater in that intimate space. Met the show’s producer and director Vincent Dowling, a charming man. The performances were spot on and if you squinted, you [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 16th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Broadway, meet New Rochelle

November
16

For a generation, Rob and Laura Petrie were the face of New Rochelle, on TV’s “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

For the foreseeable future, when Broadway audiences think about New Rochelle, they’ll think of Ron Bohmer, Christiane Noll, Dan Manning, Bobby Steggert and Christopher Cox.

They play the privileged New Rochelle family that represents a third of [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Working on their ‘Miracle’

November
16

It isn’t easy to stage William Gibson’s play, “The Miracle Worker,” about Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

For one thing, much of it is told without words, in page after page of stage directions.

For another, the topic — a deaf-and-blind girl learning to communicate — requires a great deal of sensitivity.

But Blind Brook and [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 16th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

A pre-Thanksgiving stage cornucopia

November
16

This pre-Thanksgiving week offers a cornucopia of new stage treats. There’s another “Insights & Revelations” show at the Emelin, Gurney in Armonk, a Penguin Rep show far from Crickettown Road and it’s already Christmas in Bedford Hills.

Add to that the long list of high schools across the Lower Hudson Valley that are bringing their long-simmering [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 16th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Can a love triangle be fair and balanced?

November
11

Fans of FOX News will want to know that “Happening Now” anchor Jon Scott, who lives in Irvington, is playing Lancelot in Clocktower Players’ production of “Camelot.”

On his blog, Scott jokes that this is his “off-Broadway debut” because “Irvington Town Hall Theater is just off Broadway.”

Lisa Spielman is Guenevere and Larry Reina is Arthur in [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 11th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Audition: “The Lion in Winter”

November
11

Brewster Theater Company is holding auditions for its Winter 2010 production of James Goldman’s “The Lion in Winter.”

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 11th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

A busy day yesterday

November
11

I was all over the place yesterday.

Started with David Hyde Pierce on the Upper West Side, talking about his upcoming show at the Paramount with Michael Feinstein. Turns out they’re L.A. neighbors. They’ll play the Paramount Nov. 28 and then head to Feinstein’s NYC club for the entire month of December. Hyde Pierce is a [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 11th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Review: “Rabbit Hole” at Hudson Stage

November
11

For much of “Rabbit Hole” — David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now in a thoughtful production at Briarcliff’s Hudson Stage — Susannah Schulman plays a grieving Larchmont housewife, Becca, with a quiet reserve, keeping it all together in hospital-corners neatness.

Becca likes things a certain way. She folds clothes a certain way, serves creme caramel a [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 11th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Opening this weekend

November
10

New, on a stage near you, this weekend

• Blueberry Pond Theatre Ensemble presents founder Jean-Paul DeVellard’s long-awaited “The Conversation at Choctaw Junction” on Friday through Dec. 13. At 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays; 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Directed by Anthony Valbiro. $35, $30 for seniors, students, members of unions and the military, $25 for [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 10th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

Lincoln, Douglas, Mamaroneck

November
10

Theatergoers aren’t allowed to take photographs of performances at Mamaroneck’s Emelin Theatre, but director Vincent Dowling is certain they’ll want to bring their cameras along this week anyway.

After seeing “The Rivalry” — Norman Corwin’s play about the famed 1858 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas — audiences all over have been pulling out cameras [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 10th, 2009 | Post a Comment »

With “Rivalry,” a Lincoln exhibit

November
9

To coincide with this weekend’s presentation of Norman Corwin’s “The Rivalry”—about the Lincoln-Douglas debates—the Emelin Theatre will have a special exhibit of authentic Lincoln documents and artifacts.
The exhibit has been curated by Seth Kaller, a leading historic document dealer and collection builder. Kaller has handled every Lincoln-signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation to be publicly [...]

Posted by Peter D. Kramer on November 9th, 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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