Director Dee O’Brien on stage at Hommocks Middle School, where her Semi-Royal Shakespeare Company presents its 39th season March 7-10. Rehearsing a scene from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” behind O’Brien are, from left: Drew Gallagher, Meg Carroll, Ryan Solomon and Rie Ogasawara. Photo by Tania Savayan/The Journal News. Most after-school… Read More →
‘X Factor’ teen to attend Sunday parade, has been recording Carly Rose Sonenclar and her brother, Russ, record a song in producer Brian McKenna’s Btoven Music studios in Manhattan. Photo by Jordan Rennert/Respect Films It has been more than a month since Mario Lopez announced that the season 2 winner… Read More →
Mamaroneck plans to honor ‘X Factor’ star on Jan. 27 (Carly Rose Sonenclar attends the “The X Factor” season finale at CBS Television City in Los Angeles on Dec. 20, 2012 Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) Mamaroneck’s singing superstar—“XFactor” runner-up Carly Rose Sonenclar—has been home for weeks, but her village will… Read More →
See Carly on TV, and possibly be part of XFactor finale yourself If you can’t get enough of Mamaroneck’s singing phenom, Carly Rose Sonenclar, here’s your shot to put her over the top in Wednesday’s finale—and maybe get on national TV at the same time. “The X Factor” is hosting… Read More →
Mamaroneck teen’s ‘Over the Rainbow’ puts her over the top Last night’s emotional “X Factor” exit of New Jersey teen-ager Beatrice Miller—who sang through the tears in a performance that seemed a bit cruel, even by reality-tv standards—was followed by the unveiling of the vote totals for the remaining… Read More →
Even after all these weeks, the judges on THE X FACTOR still aren’t quite sure what they’ve got with Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar. She killed “My Heart Will Go On,” the “Titanic” anthem tonight and the judges were still thinking that someone was singing for her. L.A. Reid to Carly’s… Read More →
America voted, and Carly Rose Sonenclar made it (back) into the Top 12 on THE X FACTOR tonight. Eliminated tonight was Jason Brock, who got the lowest vote total last night. The wrinkle was that the judges had to choose between two sing-off competitors: Brock and Cece Frey. After they… Read More →
And then there were 12 on “The X Factor,” including Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar, who was spared by Britney Spears last night, with 11 other acts. They’ll be back singing live next Wednesday with the results show next Thursday. But first, there’s Sunday night’s recap from the judges’ homes, for… Read More →
Mamaroneck teen gets her Britney on Gotta say that Carly Rose Sonenclar looked so out of place singing Flo Rida’s “Good Feeling” last night on “The X Factor.” It looked like she got some bad advice from her judge-advisor Britney Spears, who had Carly dressed in a school uniform (I… Read More →
Chatting up ‘X Factor’ phenom Carly Rose Sonenclar The World Series is booting “The X Factor” from its Wednesday/Thursday lineup on Fox this week (and possibly next), but we caught up with the very busy Carly Rose Sonenclar and the Mamaroneck phenom talked about last week’s episode, when Britney Spears… Read More →
Pelham Manor’s Nunziata twins play The Emelin with ‘Broadway, Our Way’ Will and Anthony Nunziata come home to Westchester this weekend. The calendar at Pelham Memorial High School says that Homecoming was last weekend, but Will and Anthony Nunziata — the identical twins and 2002 Pelham grads who are making… Read More →
After a baseball rain delay stalled the start of “The X Factor,” in the final night of the Judges Homes episodes, Britney Spears last night told Mamaroneck phenom Carly Rose Sonenclar that she’s moving on to the group’s 16 finalists. The 13-year-old joins Diamond White, 13, from L.A.; Arin Ray,... Read More →
Mamaroneck ‘dragon caterpillar’ talks about Britney’s home The morning after will.i.am dubbed her a “dragon caterpillar” who starts out soft and then scorches the village, Carly Rose Sonenclar called this morning to talk about the experience of being at Britney Spears’ Malibu home for last night’s episode of “The X… Read More →
Mamaroneck teen wows Britney and Will.i.am in Malibu On “The X Factor” last night, after L.A. Reid was finished screening the six finalists in the “Over 25” category, it was time for the teens—and Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar.
Swapped emails with Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar, who is now through with boot camp on “The X Factor.” Here’s our Q&A. We’ll add some more answers later this afternoon, about last night’s duet with Diamond, so check back later for that.
Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar will be on tonight’s Boot Camp episode of “The X Factor.” I’ll be updating this post after her performance tonight and speaking with her first thing tomorrow moring, so check back here. Meanwhile, here’s my story about the 13-year-old phenom. (Carly Rose Sonenclar sings “Feeling Good”... Read More →
Looks like I’ll have a weekly appointment to talk with Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar, who blew the judges away on “The X Factor” and will appear on the show’s Miami Boot Camp episode tomorrow night. Do you have a question for Carly? Leave a comment here and I’ll pick a… Read More →
Broadway’s John Treacy Egan directs Tony-winner On Friday, the newly expanded Westchester Sandbox Theatre—with more seats and a bigger lobby—opens the Tony-winning best musical “Avenue Q,” where Muppets live alongside humans, the rent is affordable and Gary Coleman will fix your plumbing.
Mamaroneck venues—one old, one new—join forces (The cast of “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” at the Emelin Theater includes, standing from left: Steven C. Rich, Brandon Lavon Hightower and Steven Charles, holding Derrian Tolden. Photo by Dan Ferrante.) If someone says “Yakety Yak” and you blurt out “don’t talk back,” you know… Read More →
Westchester Sandbox Theatre’s teen show choir, The Drama Llamas, present a revue-style show on Sunday at 3 p.m. to help defray costs of their Disney trip next spring. At Disneyworld, they’ll perform and take part in a Disney Theatricals Workshop. You know Disney Theatricals, right? They’re the folks who brought… Read More →
Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last Five Years” is an ingenious bit of storytelling, a musical about that relates the birth and death of a relationship simultaneously. Half of the story is told in chronological order; the other half is told backwards. Mamaroneck’s Westchester Sandbox Theatre presents “The Last Five Years,”... Read More →
If Broadway leading ladies are your thing, Westchester is the place to be this weekend, as two stars of that firmament — Kelli O’Hara and Sutton Foster — fall to earth in the Lower Hudson Valley for cabaret performances. On Dec. 11, three-time Tony nominee O’Hara (“The Light in the… Read More →
Kelli O’Hara, so memorable as nurse Nellie Forbush in the recent revival “South Pacific” at Lincoln Center, admits to still riding the high of that production. “I’m trying to soak it for all it’s worth,” she says with a laugh. “It was an uplifting and positive experience the whole time,... Read More →
Here, from Helen Hayes Youth Theater producer Danielle Rudess, are the nominations for the 2010 Metropolitan Awards, honoring achievements in participating high-school musicals from Westchester, Rockland and Bergen counties. Thirty-nine schools entered: 19 from Westchester, 13 from Bergen, six from Rockland and one from Putnam. (Producer Rudess said Putnam Valley… Read More →
Nine high schools across the Lower Hudson Valley dim the lights and open their spring musicals this weekend, a production weekend that runs the gamut from Harold Hill to Nathan Detroit to a Space Age Prospero. Weeks of work culminate in the call of “Places,” when actors take their spots… Read More →
For four years, Eliot Cohen has been a theater kid, part of the Performing Arts Curriculum Exchange (PACE) program at Mamaroneck High School where students can major in things theatrical. He has also done Shakespeare with Dee O’Brien’s Semi-Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing as Macduff in “Macbeth” and as Puck in… Read More →
Westchester Sandbox Theatre in Mamaroneck, one of the area’s newest venues, will present “SHOUT! The Mod Musical” April 16, 17 and 18. Directed by Jason Summers, with musical direction by Dan Ferrante, “SHOUT!” stars Alexsandra Bossi, Kathy Brooks, Julie Colangelo, Victoria Lauzun and Lauren Luciano, in a show that includes ‘60s hits such as “Wishin’... Read More →
(Somehow, when I wrote the story for the paper, my fingers became convinced that Ginny O’Keefe, the high-flying title character in this production, was named Ginny O’Neill. My apologies to Ginny, her family, her friends and anyone else who knew better.) To teach the Darling children to fly, Peter Pan… Read More →
The snow is throwing a wrench into a lot of plans. Martin Moran’s “Rehearsing Consciousness,” part of the Insights & Revelations Series at the Emelin Theater, has been canceled tonight and rescheduled to 8 p.m. March 4. The solo show takes the audience from Johannesburg to Colorado to Broadway. Audiences… Read More →
Here’s a look at a very busy spring on local stages, in both professional and community theater. Professional Axial Theatre Company: Axial presents “For The Love of Money,” an evening of monologues about people’s romance with money, May 13 through 23. At St. John’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sunnyside Ave., Pleasantville. 914-286-7680…. Read More →
