607 stories by "Peter D. Kramer"
Here, in Peter Carr’s video, is the 2015 Metros pre-show, heretofore to be known as The Blue Carpet Session. 2015 Metros: The Blue Carpet Session
The post 2015 Metros: Blue Carpet Sess…
There were problems with last night’s live stream, but lohud videographer Peter Carr caught all of last night’s action. Pete has spent most of the day editing and adjusting and h…
Here, as promised, is the winner in the inaugural Student Critic Metro Award. Entries in this category were judged on their ability to capture the mood of the trip to the theater, to provide…
The 2015 Metros went to… Here are the top winners of the 2015 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, announced June 1 at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains. (See a galle…
The dream was possible — and the star reachable — as Pleasantville High School’s production of “Man of La Mancha,” about knight errant Don Quixote who dared dre…
5:45 Brewster made it! Just saw them shlepping a bunch of boxes down to the band room. They’ll start getting ready and take their 6 p.m. rehearsal slot. Putnam Valley is running late, …
To quote the great Parker Posey from “Waiting for Guffman,” it’s the day of the show, y’all. Twelve hours from now, we’ll be in the thick of the 2015 Metros cer…
Clay Thomson and Christopher Rice typically spend show nights five blocks apart on Broadway. Clay plays Matilda’s brother, Michael, in “Matilda” at the Shubert on 44th whil…
The excitement is building for Monday’s 2015 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards. We’re finalizing plans for the blue-carpet pre-show interviews and the live Metros webcast f…
I’ve written about Rehabilitation through the Arts—the remarkable theater program in New York prisons—for years. It started with a production of “West Side Story,R…
The lights will come down on Broadway's "Next to Normal" next month, an eventuality that has its composer looking ahead and one of its stars looking at his feet.
Yorktown's Craig Schulman, who just finished a run as Tevye in Yorktown Stage's production of "Fiddler on the Roof," has played Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables" more than any actor alive: up…
It's all about the comb-over.
That's how actor-writer Jim Brochu transforms into Zero Mostel.
It's a long way from Pleasantville to Detroit and Durham, N.C., but not too far for two Pleasantville natives about to kick off performances in national tours of "West Side Story" and "Billy…
Annette Jolles, the new artistic director of the White Plains Performing Arts Center, will direct the first two productions.
For weeks now, Tom Meehan's immediate focus has been on a Little Tramp in California. Next, it will be on an oversized elf on Broadway.
White Plains native Jennifer Damiano plays Mary Jane Watson in Julie Taymor's $50 million Broadway-bound spectacle: "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark."
Kyle Beltran remembers like it was yesterday, even though it was nearly 10 years ago.
Vanessa Walsh will play Marc Antony in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's apprentice production of "Julius Caesar."
My annual marathon of musicals took me to 64 musicals, including five of the seven nominees for outstanding overall production announced Monday. (See the list of nominees here.) Here are my …
If you missed it last night, or if you were at a viewing party and couldn’t hear because everybody was talking (theater kids!), here’s the replay of the 2015 Metros nomination we…
Brewster High School’s production of “Shrek the Musical” garnered 15 nominations for the 2015 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, leading the record 46 musicals in the…
Here’s a look at Monday’s 2015 Metro nominations, by the numbers. (Totals do not include the technical-merit category, nominees for which are chosen by teachers.) The Metros will…
