Friday, May 24, 2013
Got a note from Metro Awards producer Danielle Rudess, with an addition to the nominees list for Outstanding Comic Performance, adding Alec Tucker, who played Bill Snibson in Tappan Zee High…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 05:02PMThursday, May 23, 2013
Comedies and trailers, action films and dramas are in store for audiences at Nyack High School’s Student Film Festival on May 31 at 7 p.m. Admission is free. I spoke with Nyack’s…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:51PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
On Friday, Harrison junior Halle Mastroberardino was nominated for a Metro Award for playing Polly Baker in Harrison’s “Crazy for You.” She didn’t have much time to s…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:56AMFriday, May 17, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:09AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Happy 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…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 05:15PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Just 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…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:30PMFriday, May 10, 2013
The 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 …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:01PMThursday, May 9, 2013
Joe 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…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:38PMThursday, May 2, 2013
Victoria 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:41AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Jesse 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,…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:45AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Where 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:30AMFriday, April 26, 2013
OK, 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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 ̶…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:56AMThursday, April 25, 2013
Jack 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 &#…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:24AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
A 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’…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 07:43PM 
