Last May, newspaper people across the metropolitan area lost a treasured colleague with the passing of Bob Heisler, a former editor at The Journal News, Newsday, The New York Post and the New York Daily News. Bob was my editor here for about four years. He was the most positive,... Read More →
Broadway’s Cosette, Marius reunite at The Town Hall Pleasantville’s Broadway vet, Ali Ewoldt, reunites with her “Les Miserables” co-star Adam Jacobs (who played Marius to her Cosette) for a one-night-only concert, “A Heart Full of Love: A Concert,” at NYC’s famous venue The Town Hall on Feb. 23. Jacobs (seen… Read More →
Pleasantville’s Axial Theatre is getting in the post-Sandy spirit, realizing that people may be short on cash due to powerless ATMs, so they’re offering a pay-what-you-can policy for 8 p.m. performances of “Awake and Sing!” on Nov. 1 and 2. Tickets for the final two performances, 8 p.m. Nov. 3… Read More →
Tonight, checking out “The Clearing” at Axial Theatre in Pleasantville, a laboratory for theater artists. Looking forward to seeing what inventive way they configure the St. John’s Episcopal hall this time, as they are open to all kinds of nifty configurations. My last visit there, the audience changed seats at… Read More →
Are you a budding Loesser? Is there a Hammerstein to your Rodgers? If you’ve written an original musical, Pleasantville’s Little Village Playhouse wants to see it — and maybe produce it one day. I got an email from LVP’s Patrick Gallagher, a musical scribe himself, who wrote that LVP is… Read More →
Pleasantville’s Axial Theatre has made a name for itself presenting new works for more than a decade. And Artistic Director Howard Meyer (inset, photo by Mark Vergari/The Journal News) has been helping to present new actors through his HMActing Program. In a few weeks—on Aug. 20 and 21—some of his… Read More →
Armela Singh came prepared. The fourth-grader at PEARLS Hawthorne Elementary School wore a bright blue dress and sunglasses to ward off the flashes along the red carpet. Paparazzi can be brutal. Thus protected, Armela and her classmates strode into Pleasantville’s Jacob Burns Film Center earlier this month for the premiere… Read More →
Photographer Mark Vergari and I have been at the Jacob Burns Film Center in the Pleasantville the past three nights, watching the animated one-minute movies of more than 250 fourth-graders from across Westchester County. For three months, “Minds in Motion” volunteers from the Burns have been at their schools —... Read More →
Penny Peyser will be back at her parents’ Irvington home this weekend, back from L.A., where she has lived for 34 years. The actress — who played Alan Arkin’s soon-to-be-married daughter in the 1979 film “The In-Laws” and went on to roles on “Knots Landing” and other TV series —... Read More →
A mention of the playwright Eugene O’Neill isn’t likely to conjure thoughts of a sunny, turn-of-the-century Fourth of July. O’Neill is best known for his American tragedies “The Iceman Cometh” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” But he wrote just such a sunny-turn-of-the-century-Fourth-of-July story, his one well-known comedy: “Ah, Wilderness!”... 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 →
Sometimes we need a reminder that, no matter how different we all may seem, on some level we’re all in the same boat. That’s the power of theater and, this weekend and next, that’s the appeal of Axial Theater’s “For the Love of Money.” Billed as “an evening of monologues… Read More →
When the members of Pleasantville’s Axial Theater began looking for a topic for their spring mainstage production, they turned to the topical. “We said, ‘What’s everybody talking about these days?’” recalls Axial artistic director Howard Meyer. “Since our tag is ‘original, provocative and relevant,’ we decided, ‘Why not take it… Read More →
For Cole Porter fans, the Lower Hudson Valley is the place to be this weekend, with four — count ’em, four — productions of “Anything Goes.” North Rockland ends its two-weekend run of the shipboard story of Reno Sweeney and Billy Crocker while Bronxville, Clarkstown North and Somers add their… Read More →
For Kathryn Faughnan, acting is acting. In 2006, she was one of three girls to create the role of Jane Banks in Broadway’s “Mary Poppins.” She has also appeared on “Law & Order,” a bona fide if ever there was one for a New York actor. But this weekend and… 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 →
When the curtain opens at the Tarrytown Music Hall at 1 p.m. tomorrow, Max Levy will do something that nobody thought he’d be able to do just a few weeks ago: He’ll play The Beast in Random Farms Kids’ Theater’s production of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.” When he was… Read More →
For a couple of years before I got married, I lived in Elmsford. On a few occasions, I’d pop into the Bank of New York there and do a little banking. If the ATM wasn’t working, I’d go to the teller inside and it seemed like every time I did… Read More →
