Partnership promises to counter winter’s lash What better way to usher in winter’s chill than by the ultimate counter-programming? Fort Hill Players will present Red Monkey Theater Group’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Jan. 18. It’s a partnership between a long-standing community theater and a group that is… Read More →
Irish comedy to open Nov. 10 Actors Jay Stratton, left, and Richard Hollis, rehearse the play “Stones in His Pocket” at Hudson Stage in Briarcliff Manor Oct. 26, 2012. The two men play dozens of characters in the play, about Hollywood coming to a small Irish town to find the… Read More →
High-school productions weather storms to a heavenly ‘Hell Week’ After years of focusing purely on high-school theater during the busy spring rush of shows, I’ve been expanding my coverage to other forms of performing and visual arts. Still, I have to admit it was nice to get back in a… Read More →
Sometimes, it’s good to hear again how valuable theater can be. Thanks, Terry O’Brien, for sharing. Stage Matters from Theatre Communications Group on Vimeo.
Whatever happened to Charlie Brown and his “Peanuts” pals? The White Plains-based New York Performing Arts Center, a youth theater in its second year, is presenting one scenario, in Bert V. Royal’s satire “Dog Sees God.” The wholly unauthorized play, subtitled “Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead,” will be presented by… Read More →
The Hope Players, the theatrical arm of the Hope for Change Foundation — a group committed to raising awareness and money to fight breast cancer — presents “Seussical” at Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers on Aug. 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Aug. 15 at 2 p.m. Advance-purchase… Read More →
As it wraps up “Shooting Star” (which stars Broadway vets Karen Ziemba and Gregg Edelman) at the end of this week, Penguin Rep Theatre is about to turn to Verne, Jules Verne, with the comic adventure “Around the World in 80 Days.” The run for the Mark Brown adaptation is… Read More →
Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack is about to open Rebecca Gilman’s “Boy Gets Girl,” directed by Kathy Gnazzo. Performances run July 16 through Aug. 7 Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8, Sundays at 2 and Thursday, Aug. 5 at 8. The play involves a man and a woman and when no means no…. Read More →
Karen Ziemba won a Tony for best featured actress in a musical for her work in “Contact.” She was also nominated for “Curtains,” “Never Gonna Dance” and “Steel Pier.” Gregg Edelman was a Tony nominee for “Into the Woods,” “1776,” “Anna Karenina” and “City of Angels.” Broadway musicals in big… Read More →
I took in “Freed,” Charles Smith’s fact-based telling of the story of John Newton Templeton, the first black man to attend Ohio University, at 59E59 Theaters last week. Penguin Rep audiences know the show as “Free Man of Color,” part of last year’s unforgettable season. It’s a triangle of interests:... Read More →
In an age when youth theaters can charge big money for a double-cast production of “Annie,” it’s refreshing to learn of a program that won’t cost theater-loving high-school kids a penny to participate. Director Betsy Hooper is launching Free Theatre Westchester with auditions tomorrow night at the Mamaroneck Avenue School… Read More →
When people learn that “Troilus and Cressida” — one of the three plays in the 2010 Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival — is a love story set in the Trojan War, expectations might build. But don’t expect to see huge battle scenes on the lawn beyond the festival’s tent. This is… Read More →
When some singers rehearse, they need an accompanist, a vocal coach and plenty of quiet. Singer Liz Callaway just needs a CD and a full tank of gas. “I do most of my rehearsing in the car so I drive and practice along to piano tracks,” says Callaway, a Broadway veteran… Read More →
When Suzanne Ochs of Dobbs Ferry trekked north to audition for Brewster Theater Company’s “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean,” she didn’t know a lot about the show. “I had the 6,000-foot view of what it was about: a group of women getting together, anniversary… Read More →
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… Read More →
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… Read More →
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… Read More →
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… Read More →
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… Read More →
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… Read More →
The Armonk Players will present a staged reading of John R. Arco’s “Dead Men Don’t Itch,” directed by the author, on Oct. 7 at 8 p.m.
