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 [...]

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.”

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]