Wednesday, 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 02:55PMWednesday, November 27, 2013
They giggle. One makes an evil bunny rabbit face while the other giggles and tries to mimic her. They correct each other. And finish each other’s sentences. And giggle more. They are l…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:39PMIt is appropriate, Rob Ashford concedes, that he’s staging this week’s live TV presentation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” at the Long Isl…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:38PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
New City’s Skylar Astin has parlayed his star turn in “Pitch Perfect” into a leading role in the new sitcom “Ground Floor,” premiering Nov. 14 with back-to-back…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:33PMMonday, October 28, 2013
November, it seems, is “Our Town” month in the Lower Hudson Valley. Each weekend from now to Nov. 23, four high schools will present Thornton Wilder’s paean to small-town l…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:20PMFriday, October 25, 2013
Producer-director Brooke Malloy of Nyack talks to Voyeur Theater patrons before last night’s performance of three “Twilight Zone” scripts. Photo by Peter D. Kramer/The Jour…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:09PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Mary Bridget Davies under the marquee at Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre, where, in 1970, Janis Joplin wrote her hit song, “Mercedes Benz.” Davies plays Joplin in “A N…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 05:03PMFriday, October 18, 2013
Had some fun tracking down high-school mascots for the story THEY’VE GOT SPIRIT, YES THEY DO… in today’s paper. And happy to work with Tania Savayan, photographer and video…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:25PMWednesday, October 9, 2013
The 68th annual Tony Awards will be held where the 67th annual Tony Awards were held—Radio City Music Hall. Broadway’s biggest night, presented by the Broadway League and the Ame…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:40AMMonday, October 7, 2013
Terrence O’Brien, who was present at the creation of Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and served as its artistic director for all of its 27 years, will step down at year’s end,…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 05:29PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
White Plains Performing Arts Center is cooking up a pretty special 10th anniversary party on Nov. 2. Headliners will include Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham (“Amadeus”) and Actors…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:30AMMonday, September 30, 2013
(Actors warm up before a performance of Our Town at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining May 31, 2013. The performance was part of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a prison-arts progr…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:54PMFriday, September 20, 2013
As an undergrad at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, Sam Pines certainly played his share of beer pong, a game that — in its college incarnation — is equal parts strategy, aim and,…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:40PMIn an age when commercial theater uses the movies as muse, it’s kind of refreshing to hear what’s cooking at the Steamer Company Firehouse in Ossining on Oct. 19, when art—…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:02AMThursday, September 19, 2013
Theater is a collaborative art, so it’s fun to see when two groups join forces to dream up something that becomes bigger than the sum of its parts. That’s the case in Wesley Hill…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:39PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
They have been passing the hat for more than a decade at Nyack’s tiny Elmwood Playhouse. Someday, their spiel went, we’ll fix the place up with your help. That someday is today &…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:10PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Local audiences will remember Nance Williamson from her years as a treasured member of Terry O’Brien’s company at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, where she and her husband, K…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:29PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
For Bill Cosby, success in comedy boils down to three stories: a Chinese restaurant, making Jack Benny laugh, and Santa Claus. The 76-year-old comic great — who is so cool he sits duri…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:51AMFriday, August 30, 2013
The taller half of Simon and Garfunkel is using Westchester as a rehearsal space this fall, with at least three planned “acoustic rehearsals” in Irvington and Armonk. Art Garfunk…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:04AMFriday, August 9, 2013
Chris Jamison has an actress’ composure, a dancer’s posture and a singer’s belt. This triple threat grew up a theater kid on the stage at Westlake High School. When she was…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:19PMFriday, August 2, 2013
If anyone doubts the challenges posed in staging the musical “City of Angels,” it’s all there in black and white — and color. When Brewster Theater Company opens the …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:25PMHe taught “Hamlet” to Ley Márèn (pictured) and a decade’s worth of other Ardsley High School students. So to honor Rod Baird—the Ardsley High English teache…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:44PM“Sharknado,” the summer’s guilty pleasure, hasn’t quite jumped the shark yet. But tonight might put it over the top. Two local theaters—the Regal in New Roc Cit…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:19AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
A lifelong horseman, singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett rides quiet in the saddle, even at full speed atop his 10-year-old stallion Smart and Shiney in a sport called reining. “It’s l…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:39PMMonday, July 15, 2013
Summer theater is as hot as the thermometer across the Lower Hudson Valley, with options aplenty wherever you look, many of which offer air-conditioning. There’s the out-of-doors Hudso…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:24PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
The king is angry. Then he’s mad. He’s also proud and confused, lost, found, wounded and brave. Each of these emotions and conditions plays in the eyes of this king — Lear …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:42AMMonday, July 8, 2013
Controversies arise regularly over what material is appropriate for high-school students to perform. The latest is the story of a Boston-area teacher who was reassigned, his drama classes cu…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:17AMFriday, July 5, 2013
The tone is set immediately at “The Three Musketeers” — now in repertory at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison — with an acrobatic swordfight between d…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:23AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
The winners of the fifth National High School Musical Theater Awards, known as The Jimmys, were named last night: Sarah Lynn Marion, from Fullerton, Calif., and Taylor Varga from Newtown, Co…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:21PMWednesday, June 26, 2013
If you head to Rye Playland to see Carly Rose Sonenclar, bring some extra cash. The singing phenom, runner-up on “The X Factor,” unveiled the swag that will be on sale this weeke…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:42PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Sometimes, smart people fall for blockheads. It’s the stuff of telenovelas, romantic comedies, reality shows, and, yes, even Shakespeare. Poor Helena, the heroine of “All’s…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:30PM 
