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Ramsey High School in Bergen County leads the list of nominees for the 16th annual Metropolitan High School Theater Awards announced Friday. The awards will be presented June 3 at the newly …
Linked From The Journal News at 04:03PMA lot of excitement for high-school-musical kids across the Lower Hudson Valley this morning as the nominations for the 2013 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards are just a few hours away…
Linked From The Journal News at 09:09AMHappy to announce that I’ll be joining producer Danielle Rudess at 4 p.m. on Friday in the rehearsal studios of her Helen Hayes Youth Theater in Nyack to announce – live via a lo…
Linked From The Journal News at 05:15PMJust learned that Mamaroneck phenom Carly Rose Sonenclar, who just turned 14, will make her concert debut right here in Westchester, with a 7 p.m. concert at Rye Playland on June 29. Tickets…
Linked From The Journal News at 03:30PMThe 16th annual Metropolitan High School Theater Awards are just around the corner and there’s news to report. Producer Danielle Rudess tells me the evening (June 3 in Peekskill) will …
Linked From The Journal News at 04:01PMJoe Brancato is fond of saying he likes plays that entertain while “stirring the gray matter.” In 35 years as founding artistic director at Stony Point’s Penguin Rep, he ha…
Linked From The Journal News at 12:38PMVictoria Fried has only been at photography for three years, but the 18-year-old Ossining High School senior is certainly making up for lost time, compiling an award-winning portfolio of ima…
Linked From The Journal News at 12:56PMChanging my musicals hat into my high-school-arts hat (a top hat for a fedora) to chat with Tori Fried, a senior at Ossining High School who is old school when it comes to photography. She s…
Linked From The Journal News at 08:41AMJesse Tyler Ferguson sounded like a broken record this morning as he announced the 2013 Tony nominees for best lighting design for a musical. “Kenneth Posner for ‘Kinky Boots,…
Linked From The Journal News at 09:47AM“Kinky Boots,” the Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical about a man who teams up with a drag queen to exploit a niche in the cobbler’s trade, garnered 13 nominations for t…
Linked From The Journal News at 08:45AMWhere to go after the show? Every high-school production has their go-to diner or spot. (On Broadway, it’s Joe Allen or Angus McIndoe’s.) At Mahopac, after “The Soun…
Linked From The Journal News at 03:53PMOne video this morning reminded me of another. First, Alfred Molina in a “Funny or Die” video as a high-powered critic of children’s theater. Which reminded me of David Sed…
Linked From The Journal News at 11:52AMLexie Frare’s days these days are fueled by Venti Starbucks coffees with soy milk, bags of candy and adrenaline. It’s a frenetic time for Frare, who is choreographing three youth…
Linked From The Journal News at 11:35AMAdam Santagata has played young men in love before. The Walter Panas High School senior was Freddy Eynsford-Hillin “My Fair Lady” last year, head over heels with Eliza Doolittle …
Linked From The Journal News at 11:30AMOK, so what it lacks in suspense it more than makes up for in thrill factor. Westchester’s Sophia Gennusa, and her fellow “Matilda” stars Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Mil…
Linked From The Journal News at 02:23PMDropped by rehearsal for “Footloose” at Alexander Hamilton High School in Elmsford with photographer Ricky Flores. Thanks to producer Rob Jacoby and director-choreographer Lexie …
Linked From The Journal News at 01:02PMThis weekend, you can encounter cowardly lions, dancing zombies, hard-working secretaries, legal eagles, upwardly mobile window-washers, teens itching to dance, twenty-somethings itching to …
Linked From The Journal News at 12:39PMThey’re both rebels in leather jackets, but New Rochelle High School junior A.J. Salvaggio, 16, sees one big difference between Danny Zuko — the greaser with a soft spot in ̶…
Linked From The Journal News at 12:30PMMade my second trip to Walter Panas this calendar year, without a photographer, so I took out the ol’ Nikon and tried my best. Director Jim Filippelli apologized for the lack of charac…
Linked From The Journal News at 10:52AMDropped by Walter Panas for my second musical visit of the school year. Last fall, it was “The Sound of Music.” This spring, it’s “The Music Man.” I joked with …
Linked From The Journal News at 09:00AMDropped by Alexander Hamilton High School the other day to catch director Lexie Frare and her team working with kids from grades 7 through 12, and two elementary-school siblings who were the…
Linked From The Journal News at 08:56AMJack Titcomb is just a sophomore, but what the 16-year-old says goes backstage at Sleepy Hollow High School’s production of “The Wiz” this weekend. Like all good stage mana…
Linked From The Journal News at 11:17AMAfua Yeboah, 16, a junior at Peekskill High School, has stage presence to burn. As TiMoune, the island girl who finds favor with the gods in “Once on this Island” this weekend, s…
Linked From The Journal News at 11:03AMIf you know “9 to 5,” it’s likely the 1980 movie starring Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as secretaries who teach their chauvinist boss a lesson or two. It came t…
Linked From The Journal News at 10:54AMYou gotta love when a local theater troupe breaks ground to present a premiere. We’ve been treated to a slew of them in recent years, from “Spring Awakening” (WPPAC) and &#…
Linked From The Journal News at 10:24AMA look at rehearsal for Lakeland High School’s production of “9 to 5,” through the lens of Journal News photographer Ricky Flores.The post HSMs | Rehearsing Lakeland’…
Linked From The Journal News at 07:56PMA rehearsal for ‘The Wiz” at Sleepy Hollow High School, through the lens of Journal News photographer Joe Larese.The post HSMs | Rehearsing ‘The Wiz’ in Sleepy Hollow…
Linked From The Journal News at 07:51PMA look at rehearsals for Peekskill High School’s production of “Once on This Island,” through the lens of Journal News photographer Seth Harrison. The post HSMs | Reh…
Linked From The Journal News at 07:43PMHere’s a look at rehearsal for Hastings High School’s production of “Footloose,” seen through the lens of Journal News photographer Melissa Elian. The post HSMs…
Linked From The Journal News at 07:37PMWe dropped by a rehearsal for “Once on This Island” at Peekskill High School and were, frankly, blown away by the voices and the movement of the opening number. Director Scarlett…
Linked From The Journal News at 10:28AMHappily made the trek to Shrub Oak to catch up with director Darrin Grimm and choreographer Linda Duci and the kids as they worked on “9 to 5,” the Dolly Parton musical that star…
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