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Exciting news on the Metro Awards front. The Metros and media sponsor The Journal News and lohud.com will collaborate to add a new category this year: student critic. Here’s how it wor…
Last year, Mikael Bucknavage was unrecognizable in a sea of green latex as the title character in “Shrek.” This year, the Rye Neck senior is 17 and decidedly less irritable. In f…
With its PACE program and a tradition of performing arts excellence, Mamaroneck High School is an arts-centric school. But for years, if a Mamaroneck kid wanted to be in a big-book musical, …
Whether on Broadway or at a local high school, theater is full of tradition. Some schools have senior circles where the about-to-graduate cast members bid a tearful farewell at the final cur…
Here’s are glimpses of what I saw at a recent rehearsal at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, where Chris Briante is filling the considerable shoes of the now-retired M.A. Haskin. When…
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival turns 29 in June, two months after Kate Liberman—its new managing director, named last week—turns 30. Liberman, a Needham, Massachusetts native…
When he was at Mount Vernon High School back in the ‘80s, J.B. Smoove wasn’t a comedian yet. And his name wasn’t Smoove. Back then, he was Jerry Brooks. “I was a hall…
When you’re an all-boys or all-girls school, there are two ways to go when you want to stage a musical. The all-boys Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains recruits actresses …
The plot thickens over the sale of Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre. The owners of Broadway’s tiniest theater, named for Rockland’s most-famous actress, say the time is up: T…
Change has come to the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, with more to follow—including a drive to reach one particular audience that rarely feels at home in a theater. The Equity ve…
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…
