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Annette Jolles, the new artistic director of the White Plains Performing Arts Center, will direct the first two productions.
For weeks now, Tom Meehan's immediate focus has been on a Little Tramp in California. Next, it will be on an oversized elf on Broadway.
White Plains native Jennifer Damiano plays Mary Jane Watson in Julie Taymor's $50 million Broadway-bound spectacle: "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark."
Kyle Beltran remembers like it was yesterday, even though it was nearly 10 years ago.
Vanessa Walsh will play Marc Antony in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's apprentice production of "Julius Caesar."
My annual marathon of musicals took me to 64 musicals, including five of the seven nominees for outstanding overall production announced Monday. (See the list of nominees here.) Here are my …
If you missed it last night, or if you were at a viewing party and couldn’t hear because everybody was talking (theater kids!), here’s the replay of the 2015 Metros nomination we…
Brewster High School’s production of “Shrek the Musical” garnered 15 nominations for the 2015 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, leading the record 46 musicals in the…
Here’s a look at Monday’s 2015 Metro nominations, by the numbers. (Totals do not include the technical-merit category, nominees for which are chosen by teachers.) The Metros will…
Here is the complete list of nominees for the 2015 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, announced on lohud.com on May 18, 2015. The Metro Awards will be handed out at Archbishop Stepinac…
In a few hours, Metros producer Danielle Rudess and I will sit down in the lohud studio and announce the nominations for the 2015 Metro Awards, the 17th time high-school musicals across the …
The shows are over, the sets are struck, but for some, the high-school musical season isn’t over in the Lower Hudson Valley until the Metro Awards are handed out. The 2015 Metros—…
The judging is over. The 2015 Metros were judged in a wide spectrum of categories, from lobby display to outstanding overall production. Judges evaluated each aspect of the performance on a …
The clock is ticking down to May 18’s live announcement of the 2015 Metro nominees—at www.lohud.com—and the awards themselves on June 1. To win a Metro Award—the high…
After 37 seasons running Penguin Rep, Stony Point’s charming barn theater, Joe Brancato knows better than to search for “the great play.” “I always tell my young dire…
Take 15 minutes. Watch this video. Composer Bobby Lopez and lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez talk with BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop’s Pat Cook about the way they work, abou…
Over the years, senior Steven DeNardo and junior Emily Goodrich have played more than her share of plum roles at Walter Panas High School. This week, they’re Julian Marsh and Peggy Saw…
“Billy Elliot” — Elton John’s 10-time Tony-winner about an English miner’s son who prefers ballet to boxing — left Broadway in 2012, after 1,312 performan…
Brian Hayes, 16, a junior at Pearl River High School, has been in every Pearl River show since eighth grade, from “Don’t Drink the Water” to last fall’s “The Cr…
The Cratchits and Scrooge take to the stage at Iona Prep on April 30. Yes, you read that right. Director Jason Summers and the boys at Iona Prep (ably assisted by girls from The Ursuline Sch…
Hastings High School follows up one ground-breaking musical with another. Last year, it was Jonathan Larson’s “Rent.” This year, it’s “A Chorus Line,” the…
The tech crew at Dobbs Ferry High School is called “The Rat Pack,” and its three seniors—Vincent Laino, Ryan Mitchell and Philip Monteiro—are its leaders, its Frank, …
Peekskill High School’s production of “The Wiz” has all things great and small. The small are 4th- and 5th-graders from Hillcrest Elementary School. At a recent rehearsal, …
Attending a musical rehearsal at Croton-Harmon High School has always been about seeing double. In an effort to give as many kids as possible the opportunity to try their hand at a role, the…
