607 stories by "Peter D. Kramer"
Carrie Underwood may be the latest star to play Fraulein Maria in “The Sound of Music,” but Edgemont senior Dina Resnick is modeling her portrayal of the nun-governess-mother on …
What happens after “they lived happily ever after” is the subject of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods,” which hits the stage this weekend at Somers High Schoo…
Last year’s tappy “Crazy for You” has given way to this year’s tappy “Anything Goes” at Haldane High School, and there’s a very good reason for that…
Fox Lane High School this week stages “Smile,” a rarely performed musical written by Howard Ashman (“Little Shop of Horrors”) and Marvin Hamlisch (“A Chorus Lin…
They weren’t in costume or colorful feline face makeup yet, but I caught the company of “Cats” at North Rockland High School at a key moment in the musical’s journey.…
Jacob Kuhn jokes that it’s a good thing he was cast as “Man in Chair,” the theater-loving narrator of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” on stage at Clarkstown High School…
Go to enough rehearsals and you’ll see patterns emerge. Some directors yell and scream. Others want to be your best friend. After years of watching him work, I can reasonably conclude …
Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Rent” has been met with controversy as it made its way from the professional stage to the amateur. Most recently, in Trumb…
Rehearsal can happen anywhere. Kids can run lines or work on dance steps in a classroom or even in a hallway. At Albertus Magnus High School, director Nadia Rizzo rehearsed “Beauty and…
Nyack senior Michel Ntiri appreciates the chance to play the title role in “Aida” this weekend and next. The Elton John-Tim Rice musical tells the story of a Nubian princess who …
Things are about to get all rhymey at White Plains High School, as “Seussical the Musical” comes to the stage. The story—set to music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty and Lyn…
Byram Hills has a theatrical tradition, so it seems fitting that the Armonk school should be staging “Fiddler on the Roof” this year. Director John Lopez is a known commodity to …
Irvington High School’s Jake Glantz says he’s honored to be playing Russian dairyman Tevye, a role played by Topol and Zero Mostel. “To follow in their footsteps is a bit h…
The kids in Sweet Apple, Ohio, are burning up the phone lines with the news that Hugo Peabody pinned Kim MacAfee. In Kennedy Catholic High School’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie,…
The calendar says that spring is not too far off, but with snow still on the ground, it’ll be a white Christmas for the Smiths in Yorktown High School’s production of “Meet…
Thirty years ago — when British composer Howard Goodall’s “The Hired Man” first reached London’s West End — Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, “L…
Last year, Ben DeMarco played the lovably joyful Snoopy in “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” a character who could be found in his Sopwith Camel, looking down on the fiel…
A couple of ogres, a donkey, a dragon and a forest full of fairy-tale creatures will take to the stage at Rye Neck High School in “Shrek the Musical” (7 p.m., Feb. 27 and 28; 1 p…
From now till May, 62 high-school musicals will open and close across the Lower Hudson Valley. At the very end of that calendar is the regional premiere of “Mary Poppins” at Arch…
As a professional actress, Janie Wallace played The Baker’s Wife in Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” Fast forward several years and Wallace—a veteran of nat…
Theatrical traditions leave big shoes. For more than a generation, Cary Fuller was the gentle hand at the tiller at Rye Country Day School, creating a theatrical community where, each winter…
Below is a link to our annual chart, week by week, at the musicals that will be lighting up high-school stages across the Lower Hudson Valley from now till May. Chart your theatergoing caref…
Nyack H.S. senior Michel Ntiri, above, who played Alice’s daughter and the Gospel Singer in “Big River” last year. She’ll play the title role in “Aida,” r…
Harrison H.S. senior HALLE MASTROBERARDINO, 17, (center, above) led Harrison’s Metro Award-winning Outstanding Overall Musical “Crazy for You” last year, playing Polly Bake…
THE METRO AWARDS, the annual celebration of musicals in Rockland, Westchester and Bergen counties, will be held Monday, June 2 at Paramount Hudson Valley in Peekskill. Danielle Rudess, produ…
