Thursday, March 6, 2014
Things are about to get all rhymey at White Plains High School, as “Seussical the Musical” comes to the stage. The story—set to music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty and Lyn…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:52PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Byram Hills has a theatrical tradition, so it seems fitting that the Armonk school should be staging “Fiddler on the Roof” this year. Director John Lopez is a known commodity to …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:30AMIrvington High School’s Jake Glantz says he’s honored to be playing Russian dairyman Tevye, a role played by Topol and Zero Mostel. “To follow in their footsteps is a bit h…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 07:47AMThe kids in Sweet Apple, Ohio, are burning up the phone lines with the news that Hugo Peabody pinned Kim MacAfee. In Kennedy Catholic High School’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie,…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:31AMThe calendar says that spring is not too far off, but with snow still on the ground, it’ll be a white Christmas for the Smiths in Yorktown High School’s production of “Meet…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:28AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
Thirty years ago — when British composer Howard Goodall’s “The Hired Man” first reached London’s West End — Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, “L…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:02PMFriday, February 28, 2014
Last year, Ben DeMarco played the lovably joyful Snoopy in “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” a character who could be found in his Sopwith Camel, looking down on the fiel…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:55PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
A couple of ogres, a donkey, a dragon and a forest full of fairy-tale creatures will take to the stage at Rye Neck High School in “Shrek the Musical” (7 p.m., Feb. 27 and 28; 1 p…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:24AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
From now till May, 62 high-school musicals will open and close across the Lower Hudson Valley. At the very end of that calendar is the regional premiere of “Mary Poppins” at Arch…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:32AMAs a professional actress, Janie Wallace played The Baker’s Wife in Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” Fast forward several years and Wallace—a veteran of nat…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:12AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
Theatrical traditions leave big shoes. For more than a generation, Cary Fuller was the gentle hand at the tiller at Rye Country Day School, creating a theatrical community where, each winter…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:20AMBelow is a link to our annual chart, week by week, at the musicals that will be lighting up high-school stages across the Lower Hudson Valley from now till May. Chart your theatergoing caref…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:42AMTuesday, February 11, 2014
Nyack H.S. senior Michel Ntiri, above, who played Alice’s daughter and the Gospel Singer in “Big River” last year. She’ll play the title role in “Aida,” r…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:53AMHarrison H.S. senior HALLE MASTROBERARDINO, 17, (center, above) led Harrison’s Metro Award-winning Outstanding Overall Musical “Crazy for You” last year, playing Polly Bake…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:34AMTHE METRO AWARDS, the annual celebration of musicals in Rockland, Westchester and Bergen counties, will be held Monday, June 2 at Paramount Hudson Valley in Peekskill. Danielle Rudess, produ…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:09AMFrom “Legally Blonde” to “Hairspray” to “Mary Poppins,” theatergoers and fans of high-school musicals will have plenty of showtunes to sing from now throu…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:01AMBy the numbers Here’s a by-the-numbers look at the season of high-school musicals across the Lower Hudson Valley from now till May. 1 Crazy for You: Bronxville 25th Annual Putnam Count…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:59AMFriday, February 7, 2014
The Port Chester Council for the Arts, like all good-hearted theater groups, is looking for help. The council does amazing work, sending teachers into the schools to incorporate the arts and…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:31AMThursday, February 6, 2014
Jacques le Sourd, the longtime theater critic of The Journal News, has died. He collapsed on Feb. 5, outside the home of friends in Preston, Lancashire, England, where he had been living for…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:46PMWednesday, February 5, 2014
School of the Holy Child, an all-girls Catholic school in Rye, stages musicals and plays without looking beyond its walls for talent. Girls play female and male roles. This year, they…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:36PMStopped by a rehearsal of “Working” at School of the Holy Child in Rye. Here’s the Running Lines video I shot there. Enjoy!The post Running Lines: Holy Child’s “…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:18PMMonday, February 3, 2014
Musical will be last before theater’s 18-month, $8-million renovation The Gaiety Theater in Deadrock, Nev., is on its last legs. A foreclosing banker is on his way from New York. If on…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:56PMFriday, January 17, 2014
Harrison High School is on a Grammy roll. Last year, the school was named a Grammy Signature School Semifinalist. This year, they’ve done it again, placing among 123 schools from acros…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:37PMMonday, January 6, 2014
Nyack’s Greg Mitchell has written about subjects large and small, about mud-slinging campaigns involving Richard Nixon and Upton Sinclair, about coaching his son’s Little League …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:28AMTuesday, December 31, 2013
For years, Michael Mirra and his Little Radical Theatrics productions have been a moveable feast, performing at Mamaroneck’s Sandbox, Pleasantville’s JCC, PlayGroup Theater in Wh…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:10PMFriday, December 20, 2013
Just received word that Westchester’s high-school-musical juggernaut Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains will be one of only six schools in the U.S. to present Disney Theat…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:36PMThursday, December 19, 2013
Bedford’s Dori Berinstein is a professional noticer. Noticing there wasn’t a documentary celebrating the star of “Hello, Dolly!”, she made 2012’s “Carol C…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:21PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
I am, I admit, a bit strange. I listen to holiday music year-round, from Handel’s “Messiah” to Vince Guaraldi. This summer—yes, summer—I got hooked on Dave McKe…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:56PMMonday, December 16, 2013
After weeks of uncertainty, a planned-canceled-postponed production of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical “Rent” will go on as originally planned March 27-30, 2014, in Trumbull…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:47PMFriday, December 13, 2013
A plan to bring Jonathan Larson’s “Rent” and its anthem “Seasons of Love” to a high-school stage has led to a season of uncertainty in Trumbull, Conn. Last mont…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:08AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
The Broadway production of “Matilda” today announced the four young actresses who’ll share the title role in alternating performances—and one of them has ties to the …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:55PM 
