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Plans are coming together for Monday’s big night: The 15th annual Metro Awards, honoring the best in participating high-school musicals, live from Paramount Hudson Valley in Peekskill. If you don’t...
View ArticleThree Hudson Valley vets talk a little shop
Stephen Paul Johnson talking about how Shakespeare created the Everest of “King Lear,” but then gave actors lines that would help them reach the summit. *** Wesley Mann, Hudson Valley’s rubber-faced...
View ArticleStage review: ‘All’s Well’ with love and blockheads
Sometimes, smart people fall for blockheads. It’s the stuff of telenovelas, romantic comedies, reality shows, and, yes, even Shakespeare. Poor Helena, the heroine of “All’s Well That Ends Well” — now...
View ArticleStage review: All for one! One for all! OMG #3M!
The tone is set immediately at “The Three Musketeers” — now in repertory at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison — with an acrobatic swordfight between d’Artagnan and his father. They flip...
View ArticleStage review: Every inch a king
The king is angry. Then he’s mad. He’s also proud and confused, lost, found, wounded and brave. Each of these emotions and conditions plays in the eyes of this king — Lear — portrayed in an...
View ArticleLyle Lovett rides East
A lifelong horseman, singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett rides quiet in the saddle, even at full speed atop his 10-year-old stallion Smart and Shiney in a sport called reining. “It’s like a Western version...
View ArticleGet your ‘Sharknado’ on: Tonight at midnight
“Sharknado,” the summer’s guilty pleasure, hasn’t quite jumped the shark yet. But tonight might put it over the top. Two local theaters—the Regal in New Roc City in New Rochelle and the City Center 15...
View ArticleBill Cosby, 76, is White Plains bound
For Bill Cosby, success in comedy boils down to three stories: a Chinese restaurant, making Jack Benny laugh, and Santa Claus. The 76-year-old comic great — who is so cool he sits during his standup...
View ArticleVoyeur Theater debut is something to see
Producer-director Brooke Malloy of Nyack talks to Voyeur Theater patrons before last night’s performance of three “Twilight Zone” scripts. Photo by Peter D. Kramer/The Journal News Sixty trusting and...
View ArticleNovember, it seems, is ‘Our Town’ month
November, it seems, is “Our Town” month in the Lower Hudson Valley. Each weekend from now to Nov. 23, four high schools will present Thornton Wilder’s paean to small-town life and living life to the...
View ArticleThis just in: Stepinac to stage ‘Mary Poppins’
Just received word that Westchester’s high-school-musical juggernaut Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains will be one of only six schools in the U.S. to present Disney Theatricals “Mary...
View ArticleHudson Stage’s ‘Reunion’ a departure, of sorts
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 Stage co-founders, Denise...
View ArticlePopping in to Westchester Broadway Theatre
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 starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van...
View Article(Theatrical) hope springs eternal
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 Lower Hudson Valley...
View ArticleKen Burns’ Roosevelt Effect
When documentary filmmakers show a still photo and pan and zoom across it, it’s known as “The Ken Burns Effect,” championed by the man behind the PBS juggernaut “The Civil War.” Starting Sept. 14, the...
View ArticleMamaroneck’s smooth-as-silk anniversary
Wednesday night at Mamaroneck High School’s PACE Theater, five girls will take to a darkened stage and, when the lights come up, perform a dance they learned by the book. It’s called “Soaring,” created...
View ArticleViva Las Shakespeare, ‘Midsummer’ in Armonk
The calendar may say December, but the Armonk Players are out to convince us its ‘Midsummer.” The group presents one of Shakespeare’s most accessible works—“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”—set among the...
View ArticleJohn Treacy Egan: Different Disney villain
Dozens of little girls in holiday dresses will tug their parents into White Plains PAC starting this weekend, keen to see Ariel in the New York regional premiere of “The Little Mermaid,” which runs...
View ArticlePenguin Rep gets into character
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 directors in seminars, ‘If you’re...
View Article2015 Metros: The categories
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 scale of 1...
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