607 stories by "Peter D. Kramer"
From “Legally Blonde” to “Hairspray” to “Mary Poppins,” theatergoers and fans of high-school musicals will have plenty of showtunes to sing from now throu…
By 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…
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…
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…
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…
Stopped 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 “…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
It 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
