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The Technical Merit nominees for the 2014 Metro Awards were nominated by teachers who submit a portfolio of student work. (Pictured: Rockland Country Day’s “Little Shop of Horror…
Seven productions are in the running for outstanding overall production at the 2014 Metro Awards honoring achievements in high-school musicals from Rockland, Westchester and Bergen counties.…
Here’s a look at Monday’s announcement of the nominees for the 2014 Metros, by the numbers. Pictured above are Stepinac’s Christine Turturro, Avery Avellino and Dahlia Whit…
Here are the nominees for the 2014 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards. The honors will be handed out at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains on June 2. Pictured above, Harris…
Nominees for the 2014 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards will be announced Monday, May 12 at 7 p.m. in a live lohud.com webcast from The Journal News studio in White Plains. There are 3…
The Metros are moving. After several years at Peekskill’s Paramount Hudson Valley, the Metro Awards—honoring the best in participating musicals at high schools from Rockland, Wes…
OK, there’s just one show remaining on the high-school-musical calendar, the final weekend of Stepinac’s “Mary Poppins,” so the attention shifts to a little event on …
Christine Turturro lives in Croton-on-Hudson and attends Croton-Harmon High School, but for months, she has been a fixture at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, rehearsing to p…
Sometimes, size matters. Last spring, diminutive Walter Panas sophomore Elizabeth Trifone was cast as Marta von Trapp in “The Sound of Music,” answering to her father’s whi…
Having survived a winter of discontent that stretched well into spring, theatergoers can be forgiven if they’d rather not spend more time indoors. But theater companies across the Lowe…
This weekend, Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains open a two-weekend run of Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” a clever update to the P.L. Travers-based 1964 film starrin…
Joe Brancato, Penguin Rep’s artistic director, has had it with people not talking to each other. Accordingly, Brancato and executive director Andrew Horn have set a season that will pr…
When you run a theater company, your radar is always on. Dan Foster’s radar found British playwright Caryl Churchill’s play “A Number” a while back. One of his Hudson…
I’ve been shooting Running Lines videos for years. Before there was Running Lines, we did a series called “Sixteen Bars,” in which one actor from each show sang about 16 ba…
In Rockland Country Day School’s production of “Little Shop of Horrors” this weekend, the role of the nebbishy Seymour Krelborn is shared by junior Chris Kim and sophomore …
Full disclosure: Peekskill director Scarlett Antonia is not a big fan of “Little Shop of Horrors.” The show was selected before Antonia—who breathed life into PeekskillR…
When Audrey II, the giant, man-eating plant that dominates and animates “Little Shop of Horrors,” talks, people listen. Even when she’s still in the crate. When director St…
You can’t stage “Hairspray,” Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman’s musical retelling of the John Waters film, without great choreography — and Mahopac High School ha…
Scott Zimmerman has been shepherding musicals at New Rochelle High School for a long spell. For 28 years, he has been collaborating with kids, many of whom are part of the school’s PAV…
Hastings High School broke new ground five years ago, presenting a floor-shaking production of White Plains native Jonathan Larson’s breakthrough musical, “Rent.” This year…
Thomas Steccato has played his share of characters in his time at Iona Prep in New Rochelle. Last year, he played the confident window-washer J. Pierrepont Finch in “How to Succeed in …
There are 303 kids in Horace Greeley High School’s Class of 2014. This weekend, you can be precisely certain where at least 220 of them will be. They’ll be on stage at Greeley, t…
Rehearsal hasn’t started yet. The Tinman’s on his cellphone. The Scarecrow’s practicing scary looks. And Toto’s getting lots of attention. Welcome to “The Wizar…
In a school year that has seen controversy over a Connecticut school’s production of “Rent: School Edition,” John Jay High School—where a student was once reprimanded…
Coming to Croton-Harmon High School’s stage this weekend is perhaps the most famous musical ever made about a labor-management dispute. It’s “The Pajama Game,” and it…
