Monday, May 12, 2014
The Technical Merit nominees for the 2014 Metro Awards were nominated by teachers who submit a portfolio of student work. (Pictured: Rockland Country Day’s “Little Shop of Horror…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:35PMSeven productions are in the running for outstanding overall production at the 2014 Metro Awards honoring achievements in high-school musicals from Rockland, Westchester and Bergen counties.…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:11PMHere’s a look at Monday’s announcement of the nominees for the 2014 Metros, by the numbers. Pictured above are Stepinac’s Christine Turturro, Avery Avellino and Dahlia Whit…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:05PMHere are the nominees for the 2014 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards. The honors will be handed out at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains on June 2. Pictured above, Harris…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:02PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Nominees for the 2014 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards will be announced Monday, May 12 at 7 p.m. in a live lohud.com webcast from The Journal News studio in White Plains. There are 3…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:06PMMonday, May 5, 2014
The Metros are moving. After several years at Peekskill’s Paramount Hudson Valley, the Metro Awards—honoring the best in participating musicals at high schools from Rockland, Wes…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:23PMOK, there’s just one show remaining on the high-school-musical calendar, the final weekend of Stepinac’s “Mary Poppins,” so the attention shifts to a little event on …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:49AMFriday, May 2, 2014
Christine Turturro lives in Croton-on-Hudson and attends Croton-Harmon High School, but for months, she has been a fixture at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, rehearsing to p…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:33PMSometimes, size matters. Last spring, diminutive Walter Panas sophomore Elizabeth Trifone was cast as Marta von Trapp in “The Sound of Music,” answering to her father’s whi…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 07:24AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Having survived a winter of discontent that stretched well into spring, theatergoers can be forgiven if they’d rather not spend more time indoors. But theater companies across the Lowe…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:49PMThis weekend, Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains open a two-weekend run of Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” a clever update to the P.L. Travers-based 1964 film starrin…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:15PMJoe Brancato, Penguin Rep’s artistic director, has had it with people not talking to each other. Accordingly, Brancato and executive director Andrew Horn have set a season that will pr…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:34PMWhen you run a theater company, your radar is always on. Dan Foster’s radar found British playwright Caryl Churchill’s play “A Number” a while back. One of his Hudson…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:22PMThursday, April 24, 2014
I’ve been shooting Running Lines videos for years. Before there was Running Lines, we did a series called “Sixteen Bars,” in which one actor from each show sang about 16 ba…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:16AMIn Rockland Country Day School’s production of “Little Shop of Horrors” this weekend, the role of the nebbishy Seymour Krelborn is shared by junior Chris Kim and sophomore …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:58AMFull disclosure: Peekskill director Scarlett Antonia is not a big fan of “Little Shop of Horrors.” The show was selected before Antonia—who breathed life into PeekskillR…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 07:47AMWhen Audrey II, the giant, man-eating plant that dominates and animates “Little Shop of Horrors,” talks, people listen. Even when she’s still in the crate. When director St…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 07:23AMYou can’t stage “Hairspray,” Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman’s musical retelling of the John Waters film, without great choreography — and Mahopac High School ha…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:38AMScott Zimmerman has been shepherding musicals at New Rochelle High School for a long spell. For 28 years, he has been collaborating with kids, many of whom are part of the school’s PAV…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:29AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Hastings High School broke new ground five years ago, presenting a floor-shaking production of White Plains native Jonathan Larson’s breakthrough musical, “Rent.” This year…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 05:06PMThursday, April 10, 2014
Thomas Steccato has played his share of characters in his time at Iona Prep in New Rochelle. Last year, he played the confident window-washer J. Pierrepont Finch in “How to Succeed in …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:02AMFriday, April 4, 2014
There are 303 kids in Horace Greeley High School’s Class of 2014. This weekend, you can be precisely certain where at least 220 of them will be. They’ll be on stage at Greeley, t…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 05:00PMRehearsal hasn’t started yet. The Tinman’s on his cellphone. The Scarecrow’s practicing scary looks. And Toto’s getting lots of attention. Welcome to “The Wizar…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:17PMIn a school year that has seen controversy over a Connecticut school’s production of “Rent: School Edition,” John Jay High School—where a student was once reprimanded…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:45PMComing to Croton-Harmon High School’s stage this weekend is perhaps the most famous musical ever made about a labor-management dispute. It’s “The Pajama Game,” and it…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:48PMNot a lot of musicals begin without knowing how they’re going to end. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” the unfinished Charles Dickens story that Rockland native Rupert Holmes …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:04PMAnother weekend, another East Ramapo school district high school presenting “In the Heights.” This weekend, it’s Spring Valley, following in the footsteps of crosstown coun…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:19PMDevon James knows what it’s like to carry a show. He was a standout at Harrison High School. Now, he’s directing at Port Chester High School, which presents the wickedly funny sa…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:46PMAnthony DeMarte was underdressed, but suitably so. There he was, as Don Lockwood, bidding farewell to his girlfriend, Kathy (Gabbie Sansone), in a downpour, wearing a tanktop and swim trunks…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:38AM“You’re going out there a youngster, but you’ve got to come back … a star!” It’s one of my favorite lines, a charmingly cornball expression of moxie perfe…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:47AMThe day I dropped in at Brewster High School, they were working on high-energy number called “Ugg-a-Wugg,” in which the native princess Tiger Lily joins forces with Peter Pan and…
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