607 stories by "Peter D. Kramer"
Last month, I wrote about the uphill battle to save and revitalize the Bedford Village Playhouse. Today, they announced a big step in their drive to raise $2.5 million by March 1. That’…
Every year, high schools reinvent the musical, making it their own. In 2015, changes are afoot across the Lower Hudson Valley, where 64 high schools are looking to opening nights between now…
Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, which last year was one of just a handful of schools in the U.S. allowed to stage Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” will stand alone…
It’s an honor just to be nominated. The Metropolitan High School Theater Awards — honoring participating productions in across the Lower Hudson Valley — will return June 1 …
Decisions, decisions: Some weekends have more shows than others. Here are the season’s biggest weekends, where theatergoers are going to vote with their feet. Good luck in late March, …
Readers: Bookmark this page to plan your theatergoing. I will add links to videos and galleries as I make my way from school to school. pk White Plains: “The Wizard of Oz” …
Call it a senior moment. Jen Gordon, 18, a senior at White Plains High School, plays a member of the Lullaby League that welcomes the kid from Kansas to Munchkinland in “The Wizard of …
Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, which last year was one of just a handful of schools in the U.S. allowed to stage Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” will stand alone…
Got a message from Elliott Forrest at ArtsRock this morning. They’ve postponed tonight’s Andy Golub live painting demonstration and conversation. You may recall that Golub, who l…
It’s official: Hillary’s running. Off-Broadway, starting this spring. Producers announced this week that “Clinton The Musical” — a hit at last summer’s Ne…
Years ago — not the time he was arrested, another time — Andy Golub was painting a subject in Times Square when a woman approached and said, “You can’t do that! That&…
This Martin Luther King Day, Sister Madeline Dorsey’s memories have been casting back 50 years, to when she was on the front lines of the civil-rights battle’s seminal moments, o…
Helen Hayes’ name may not grace the marquee of a Broadway theater for much longer, but the man who’s shopping the building’s naming rights says the new venue will remember …
Each June, new Tony-winners leap to the podium, clutch their awards and the envelope, thank their families and agents and, with regularity, their high-school theater teachers. On June 7, one…
The new year found two fewer movie screens in Westchester, as Bowtie Cinemas shuttered the Bedford Playhouse, but a grassroots group is hoping that two new screens — and a non-profit a…
Decades after her death, Helen Hayes may be making her final Broadway exit. The Jan. 18 closing of the musical “Rock of Ages” heralds what could be the end of an honor bestowed o…
Dozens of little girls in holiday dresses will tug their parents into White Plains PAC starting this weekend, keen to see Ariel in the New York regional premiere of “The Little Mermaid…
The calendar may say December, but the Armonk Players are out to convince us its ‘Midsummer.” The group presents one of Shakespeare’s most accessible works—“A M…
Nyack’s Elliott Forrest will never forget how Mike Nichols — who died in New York on Wednesday at age 83 — saved his life one night. OK, his professional life. It was Feb. …
Wednesday night at Mamaroneck High School’s PACE Theater, five girls will take to a darkened stage and, when the lights come up, perform a dance they learned by the book. It’s ca…
You’ve got tickets to take the kids to see “Aladdin” on Broadway tonight and the kid’s got the flu this morning. Disney Theatricals feels your pain and today announce…
When high schools put on plays or musicals — as they will across the Lower Hudson Valley this weekend and next — friends and family will flock to the theater armed with flowers a…
Walter Anderson knows how to put words on the page. For 32 years, he worked at Parade Magazine, the Sunday newspaper staple. Before that, he worked at the predecessor of The Journal News. He…
When documentary filmmakers show a still photo and pan and zoom across it, it’s known as “The Ken Burns Effect,” championed by the man behind the PBS juggernaut “The …
When Robin Williams sat for an interview for the PBS series “Pioneers of Television,” the conversation covered everything from Mork from Ork to Method Acting. He was used in one …
