607 stories by "Peter D. Kramer"
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…
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…
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…
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 …
A 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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Changing 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…
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,…
“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…
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…
One 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…
Lexie 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…
Adam 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 …
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…
Dropped by rehearsal for “Footloose” at Alexander Hamilton High School in Elmsford with photographer Ricky Flores. Thanks to producer Rob Jacoby and director-choreographer Lexie …
This 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 …
They’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 ̶…
Made 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…
Dropped 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 …
Dropped 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…
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…
