607 stories by "Peter D. Kramer"
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…
(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…
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,…
In 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—…
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…
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 &…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
He 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…
“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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Stephen Paul Johnson talking about how Shakespeare created the Everest of “King Lear,” but then gave actors lines that would help them reach the summit. *** Wesley Mann, Hudson V…
Yorktown Stage has been busy making ‘Big’ plans. Next month, the big theater on Commerce Street in Yorktown Heights presents the Westchester premiere of “Big: The Musical,&…
He was the artist singled out by Lincoln Center to kick off LCT3, a new venture to nurture emerging playwrights, and delivered a Drama Desk and Outer Critics-nominated work, the one-man hip-…
For 27 summers, founding artistic director Terry O’Brien and his Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival players have willed Will Shakespeare’s plays into life using the sparest of re…
