Friday, March 15, 2013
Photos by John Meore of The Journal News from rehearsals for Nyack High School’s production of “Big River,” which ends its two-week run with performances at 8 p.m. March 15…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:28PMTake a look at a recent rehearsal of Ardsley High School’s production of ‘Once Upon a Mattress.’ Thanks to the cast and director Flori Doyle for their hospitality. Photos b…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:11PMHere are Ricky Flores’ photos from a recent rehearsal of “Sweet Charity” at Yorktown High School. Thanks to director Tom Arduini and producer Karli Wheeler for having us. S…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:59PMThursday, March 14, 2013
Last May, newspaper people across the metropolitan area lost a treasured colleague with the passing of Bob Heisler, a former editor at The Journal News, Newsday, The New York Post and the Ne…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:42PMThe company of “Seussical” at Blind Brook High School is preparing for opening night. Photo by Peter Carr/The Journal News. If you are crazy for the Gershwin musical “Crazy…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:42AMHarrison High School junior Lucas Pettinato says he feels comfortable playing a child. More specifically, in “Crazy for You” he plays Bobby Child, the son of a big banking family…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:16AMSunday, March 10, 2013
Jennifer Brooks takes a break from rehearsals for “West Side Story” at North Rockland High School. Photo by Peter D. Kramer/The Journal News. Last fall, North Rockland High Schoo…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:01AMFox Lane senior Ursula Seymour plays Princess Winnifred in “Once Upon a Mattress.” Photo by Peter D. Kramer/The Journal News. “Once Upon a Mattress” is a loopy take o…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:00AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Irvington High School’s version of the Washington Senators, with Johan Buchen, as Joe Hardy, in the foreground. Photo by Peter D. Kramer/The Journal News. In “Damn Yankees,”…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:27PMSenior Natalie Burke of Yorktown plays “Babe” in The Kennedy Catholic Players production of “The Pajama Game.” Tonight’s opening night performance will go on. P…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:20PMThursday, March 7, 2013
Got a note from director Richie Grasso at Brewster High School: “Tonight’s (Thursday March 7th) performance of “HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING” is c…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:31PMWestchester’s singing phenom and “X Factor” alum Carly Rose Sonenclar will headline an event for her favorite charity, Starlight Children’s Foundation, singing at the…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:31PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
For years at The Schoolhouse Theater — up a steep hill on Owens Road in Croton Falls — the vibe was much more schoolhouse than theater. Stroll down the main hall and you could ea…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 07:58PMTaboola Home/Section Front Player Stopped by Harrison High School yesterday to catch a bit of rehearsals for “Crazy for You,” which runs March 14 to 17. I found musical director …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:32PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
It took a while, but Mamaroneck’s singing sensation Carly Rose Sonenclar, the runner-up for “The X Factor,” has a contract with Simon Cowell’s SYCO company. It took a…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:12PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Carl Brooks, left, and Evan Rocco are Jim and Huck in “Big River” at Nyack High School. (John Meore/The Journal News) Nine musicals open this week on high-school stages from Br…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:06PMBriarcliff senior Dan Levine, 17, has a lot on his plate as Harold Hill, the conman who turns tiny River City, Iowa, on its ear in Meredith Willson’s charming comedy, “The Music …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:54AMCarl Brooks, a 17-year-old Nyack senior, jokes that he’s getting typecast as Jims. Last year, he played Jim Conley in Nyack’s “Parade,” winning a National Youth Arts …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:31AMLast year, Emily Hamilton was the student director for Pleasantville’s “Beauty and the Beast,” a huge technical show. “It was a lot of things for me to handle, not ha…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:08AMClarkstown High School North is staging “Smile,” a rarely performed musical written by Howard Ashman (“Little Shop of Horrors”) and Marvin Hamlisch (“A Chorus L…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:04AMLaura Lopez on the set of Brewster’s “How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.” Photo by Peter D. Kramer/The Journal News. At 16, Brewster High School sophomore La…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:58AMShakespeare tradition in its 39th year Director Dee O’Brien on stage at Hommocks Middle School, where her Semi-Royal Shakespeare Company presents its 39th season March 7-10. Rehearsing…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:00AMSunday, March 3, 2013
Bad dress rehearsals, they say, make for good runs. If you subscribe to that maxim, Larchmont’s John Treacy Egan should have a great run as Tito Merelli in “Lend Me a Tenor”…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:42AMThursday, February 28, 2013
Standing Ovation Studio’s presentation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” has been extended at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford, it was announced today.…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:42PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Sculptor bends bars into art Scarsdale High School senior Nicolas Penfold creates steel sculptures in art class, heating and bending metal in the studio. Photo by Tania Savayan/The Journal N…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:48AMTuesday, February 26, 2013
ArtsRock is racking up an impressive list of “conversations” with Nyack’s Elliott Forrest. They’ve had Alec Baldwin and Robert Osborne (who were a team on TCM’s…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:29PMThirty-four schools, so far, are in the mix for the 15th annual Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, the Lower Hudson Valley’s equivalent of the high-school-musical Tony Awards, sl…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:14PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Broadway’s Cosette, Marius reunite at The Town Hall Pleasantville’s Broadway vet, Ali Ewoldt, reunites with her “Les Miserables” co-star Adam Jacobs (who played Mariu…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:49AMBuy early, buy often for memorable nights at Boscobel Photo by William Marsh: The opening of last summer’s excellent production of “Romeo & Juliet.” Tickets are now on…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:23AMFriday, February 15, 2013
AP photo class teaches the finer points of photography (Olivia Crumm in Gwynne Bettencourt’s AP Photo class at Mamaroneck High School. On the screen is Crumm’s untitled image dep…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:49PMThursday, February 14, 2013
A nice surprise at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford last night when, before the curtain for the press night of “In the Heights,” director John Fanelli came out to the sta…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:00PM 
