Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Exciting news on the Metro Awards front. The Metros and media sponsor The Journal News and lohud.com will collaborate to add a new category this year: student critic. Here’s how it wor…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:58PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Last year, Mikael Bucknavage was unrecognizable in a sea of green latex as the title character in “Shrek.” This year, the Rye Neck senior is 17 and decidedly less irritable. In f…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:48AMWith its PACE program and a tradition of performing arts excellence, Mamaroneck High School is an arts-centric school. But for years, if a Mamaroneck kid wanted to be in a big-book musical, …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:05AMWhether on Broadway or at a local high school, theater is full of tradition. Some schools have senior circles where the about-to-graduate cast members bid a tearful farewell at the final cur…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:01AMHere’s are glimpses of what I saw at a recent rehearsal at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, where Chris Briante is filling the considerable shoes of the now-retired M.A. Haskin. When…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:00AMFriday, February 20, 2015
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival turns 29 in June, two months after Kate Liberman—its new managing director, named last week—turns 30. Liberman, a Needham, Massachusetts native…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:37PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
When he was at Mount Vernon High School back in the ‘80s, J.B. Smoove wasn’t a comedian yet. And his name wasn’t Smoove. Back then, he was Jerry Brooks. “I was a hall…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:47PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
When you’re an all-boys or all-girls school, there are two ways to go when you want to stage a musical. The all-boys Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains recruits actresses …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:26AMThe plot thickens over the sale of Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre. The owners of Broadway’s tiniest theater, named for Rockland’s most-famous actress, say the time is up: T…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:43AMMonday, February 9, 2015
Change has come to the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, with more to follow—including a drive to reach one particular audience that rarely feels at home in a theater. The Equity ve…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:18PMMonday, February 2, 2015
Last month, I wrote about the uphill battle to save and revitalize the Bedford Village Playhouse. Today, they announced a big step in their drive to raise $2.5 million by March 1. That’…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:12PMFriday, January 30, 2015
Every year, high schools reinvent the musical, making it their own. In 2015, changes are afoot across the Lower Hudson Valley, where 64 high schools are looking to opening nights between now…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:26PMArchbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, which last year was one of just a handful of schools in the U.S. allowed to stage Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” will stand alone…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:05PMIt’s an honor just to be nominated. The Metropolitan High School Theater Awards — honoring participating productions in across the Lower Hudson Valley — will return June 1 …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:03PMDecisions, decisions: Some weekends have more shows than others. Here are the season’s biggest weekends, where theatergoers are going to vote with their feet. Good luck in late March, …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:00PMReaders: Bookmark this page to plan your theatergoing. I will add links to videos and galleries as I make my way from school to school. pk White Plains: “The Wizard of Oz” ̵…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:56PMCall it a senior moment. Jen Gordon, 18, a senior at White Plains High School, plays a member of the Lullaby League that welcomes the kid from Kansas to Munchkinland in “The Wizard of …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:39AMThursday, January 29, 2015
Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, which last year was one of just a handful of schools in the U.S. allowed to stage Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” will stand alone…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:41PMSaturday, January 24, 2015
Got a message from Elliott Forrest at ArtsRock this morning. They’ve postponed tonight’s Andy Golub live painting demonstration and conversation. You may recall that Golub, who l…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:50AMFriday, January 23, 2015
It’s official: Hillary’s running. Off-Broadway, starting this spring. Producers announced this week that “Clinton The Musical” — a hit at last summer’s Ne…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:37PMYears ago — not the time he was arrested, another time — Andy Golub was painting a subject in Times Square when a woman approached and said, “You can’t do that! That&…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:15PMMonday, January 19, 2015
This Martin Luther King Day, Sister Madeline Dorsey’s memories have been casting back 50 years, to when she was on the front lines of the civil-rights battle’s seminal moments, o…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:17PMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Helen Hayes’ name may not grace the marquee of a Broadway theater for much longer, but the man who’s shopping the building’s naming rights says the new venue will remember …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:01PMMonday, January 12, 2015
Each June, new Tony-winners leap to the podium, clutch their awards and the envelope, thank their families and agents and, with regularity, their high-school theater teachers. On June 7, one…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:50PMSaturday, January 10, 2015
The new year found two fewer movie screens in Westchester, as Bowtie Cinemas shuttered the Bedford Playhouse, but a grassroots group is hoping that two new screens — and a non-profit a…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:03PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
Decades after her death, Helen Hayes may be making her final Broadway exit. The Jan. 18 closing of the musical “Rock of Ages” heralds what could be the end of an honor bestowed o…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:48PMThursday, December 18, 2014
Dozens of little girls in holiday dresses will tug their parents into White Plains PAC starting this weekend, keen to see Ariel in the New York regional premiere of “The Little Mermaid…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:09PMFriday, December 5, 2014
The calendar may say December, but the Armonk Players are out to convince us its ‘Midsummer.” The group presents one of Shakespeare’s most accessible works—“A M…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:12PMThursday, November 20, 2014
Nyack’s Elliott Forrest will never forget how Mike Nichols — who died in New York on Wednesday at age 83 — saved his life one night. OK, his professional life. It was Feb. …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:15PMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Wednesday night at Mamaroneck High School’s PACE Theater, five girls will take to a darkened stage and, when the lights come up, perform a dance they learned by the book. It’s ca…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 07:06PMMonday, November 17, 2014
You’ve got tickets to take the kids to see “Aladdin” on Broadway tonight and the kid’s got the flu this morning. Disney Theatricals feels your pain and today announce…
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