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Nyack's Georgia Stitt; a composer/lyricist, music director, pianist, and music producer, created Maestra, an organization committed to amplifying female and nonbinary voices in the performin…
Here, in Peter Carr’s video, is the 2015 Metros pre-show, heretofore to be known as The Blue Carpet Session. 2015 Metros: The Blue Carpet Session
The post 2015 Metros: Blue Carpet Sess…
There were problems with last night’s live stream, but lohud videographer Peter Carr caught all of last night’s action. Pete has spent most of the day editing and adjusting and h…
Here, as promised, is the winner in the inaugural Student Critic Metro Award. Entries in this category were judged on their ability to capture the mood of the trip to the theater, to provide…
The 2015 Metros went to… Here are the top winners of the 2015 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, announced June 1 at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains. (See a galle…
The dream was possible — and the star reachable — as Pleasantville High School’s production of “Man of La Mancha,” about knight errant Don Quixote who dared dre…
5:45 Brewster made it! Just saw them shlepping a bunch of boxes down to the band room. They’ll start getting ready and take their 6 p.m. rehearsal slot. Putnam Valley is running late, …
To quote the great Parker Posey from “Waiting for Guffman,” it’s the day of the show, y’all. Twelve hours from now, we’ll be in the thick of the 2015 Metros cer…
Clay Thomson and Christopher Rice typically spend show nights five blocks apart on Broadway. Clay plays Matilda’s brother, Michael, in “Matilda” at the Shubert on 44th whil…
The excitement is building for Monday’s 2015 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards. We’re finalizing plans for the blue-carpet pre-show interviews and the live Metros webcast f…
I’ve written about Rehabilitation through the Arts—the remarkable theater program in New York prisons—for years. It started with a production of “West Side Story,R…
This week, Jonathan Larson's legacy - "Rent" - returns to the composer's hometown, presented by Harrison Summer Theater at White Plains Performing Arts Center.
For 24 summers, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has developed a devoted following who'll sit through rain, fog and oppressive heat.
"I've been flying back and forth to Las Vegas to train with the founders of Cirque du Soleil," he says. "It's intense."
Broadway vets Karen Ziemba and Gregg Edelman bring considerable song-and-dance résumés to Steven Dietz's straight play, "Shooting Star," at Penguin Rep starting July 9.
Historical New York City never ceases to be rich fodder for some of crime fiction's most intriguing plots. In her second novel, Stefanie Pintoff shows how the best in historical fiction not …
Matthew Morrison is taking a summer break from "Glee," but not from music.
If all goes as planned, theatergoers this month will attend performances of Gabrielle Fox's three one-act plays (under the umbrella title "Fox Tales") and learn about and support Broadway Ca…
There are two remedies for what ails the uneven production of Molière's "The Imaginary Invalid" at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls: Time and pace.
Christine Andreas and David Nathan Perlow stand side by side during the curtain call at the Longacre Theatre eight shows a week, a diminutive Broadway veteran and a lanky newcomer belting ou…
Allyce Beasley - perhaps best known as Agnes DiPesto, the rhyming receptionist from TV's "Moonlighting" - plays Toinette the maid in the Schoolhouse Theater production of Molière's fi…
On Friday, Justin Prescott graduated from Purchase College's Dance Conservatory.
This morning, he awakens with something not all newly minted graduates can say they have in this economy: a job.
For years, Tom Dudzick loved telling stories of growing up over his father's Buffalo bar.
But the playwright, who now lives in Nyack, just couldn't bring himself to commit those stories to paper.
