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 [...]

Jack Gremli at Nanuet High School is directing “The 1940’s Radio Hour” and is having a tough time finding a 1940s coca cola soda machine for the set. Anyone have any leads or idea? Reach out to Jack ASAP at jgremli@nanuetsd.org.

In the airy atrium of Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla last Saturday, a couple sat in the front row of assembled chairs listening intently with other invited guests to poems being recited.

The poems were special, written by pediatric patients, youngsters living with pain, all too accustomed to the hospital’s monitors, pills and needles.

For the [...]

In the world of the theater, it’s called “The Scottish Play” as uttering its name, except in performance, is considered asking for it.

In the world of opera, it’s “Macbeth,” say it loud, sing it proud.

“We don’t call it ‘The Scottish Opera,’” Taconic Opera general director Dan Montez says with a laugh. “But there’s a different [...]

It’s not often that you get the chance to help a friend earn $5,000.

Chatting with cookbook author Bunny Crumpacker — now out with her seventh book, “How to Slice an Onion” (St. Martin’s Press, $25.99) — is like warm soup on a crisp autumn day.

Perhaps Garlic Soup, Page 69.

Even in print, the Valley Cottage writer’s voice soothes.

“Good things — thoughts, ideas, daydreams, premonitions — happen while you’re cutting [...]

The next time you check your 401(k), take a page from the kids in “42nd Street,” now in a polished, high-energy production at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford.

Instead of being a gloomy Gus when you see your bottom line,

If life imitates art, before long your family will join in. Who knows? Even the cat might [...]

Nyack’s Bill Irwin, widely known for his clowning, has done some serious stuff of late, winning a Tony Award as George in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and playing Vladimir in “Waiting for Godot.”

Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett: heady, precise stuff.

But if he thought playing the harried father of a teenager in “Bye Bye Birdie” [...]

Charles Smith’s “Free Man of Color,” in its New York premiere at Stony Point’s Penguin Rep  through Oct. 25, operates on several levels.

On its face, its the historical story of John Newton Templeton, a former slave who, in 1824, finds himself enrolled in the first graduating class of Ohio University, at the invitation of the [...]

I count as one of my prized theatrical experiences the month I spent in London as an undergrad, soaking up theater. One of the best destinations is National Theatre where I saw Ian McKellan in “Coriolanus.” Amazing.

You can experience a LIVE National Theatre production on Thursday afternoon in Pleasantville, when the Jacob Burns Film Center [...]

Anna Becker’s “Insights & Revelations Performance Series” officially takes up residence down-county at the Emelin Theatre on Oct. 1—after having lived in Mount Kisco and Pleasantville—with “Inside Shakespeare with The Shakespeare Society.”

Writes Becker: “The acclaimed Shakespeare Society gives us a behind the-scenes look at the process of taking Shakespeare from the page to the stage [...]

Auditions are Friday for Random Farms Kids Theater’s production of “13,” Jason Robert Brown’s musical about being, well, thirteen.

Bello Nock is an exceptional performer, which is good news and bad news for the Big Apple Circus.

When the “comic daredevil” with the foot-high flat-top hairdo takes to the circus’ single ring in “Bello Is Back!”—the 32nd season production of the Big Apple Circus, now at the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack—the show zips [...]

Just putting the finishing touches on my review of “Bello Is Back,” the 32nd season of the Big Apple Circus, now performing at the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack….

Stay tuned….

Nyack’s Elliott Forrest, a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and WQXR host, can be heard on “Walkin’ Broadway,” an iPod journey through Broadway past and present, mixing a historical walk through the Theater District with anecdotes from James Naughton, the late great Ossie Davis and John Raitt, Stephen Schwartz and Hal Prince.