607 stories by "Peter D. Kramer"
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…
Westchester’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…
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…
Taboola 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 …
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…
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 …
Briarcliff 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 …
Carl 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 …
Last 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…
Clarkstown High School North is staging “Smile,” a rarely performed musical written by Howard Ashman (“Little Shop of Horrors”) and Marvin Hamlisch (“A Chorus L…
Laura 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…
Shakespeare 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…
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”…
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.…
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…
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…
Thirty-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…
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…
Buy 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…
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…
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…
This just in: The work refurbishing The Schoolhouse Theater at Croton Falls is about a week behind schedule, meaning Jon Robin Baitz’s “Ten Unknowns” won’t open as sc…
‘60s icon comes to Suffern’s Lafayette Theatre on Valentine’s Day Singer Darlene Love, who will sing love songs at Suffern’s Lafayette Theatre on Valentine’s Da…
The storm has prompted White Plains Performing Arts Center to postpone tonight’s opening of “The Color Purple.” In an email, theater manager Kathleen Davisson wrote: “…
Just got word that the Standing Ovation Studios performance of “In the Heights” scheduled for tonight has been canceled. Saturday and Sunday performances will go on as scheduled.…
