Auditions: Anyone want to play Matilda?
Toast of West End seeks Broadway lede “I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” —“Matilda” by Roald Dahl The producers of Broadway’s “Matilda the...
View ArticleSandbox presents ‘Avenue Q’
Broadway’s John Treacy Egan directs Tony-winner On Friday, the newly expanded Westchester Sandbox Theatre—with more seats and a bigger lobby—opens the Tony-winning best musical “Avenue Q,” where...
View ArticleOne of four Matildas is from Westchester
Harrison’s Sophia Gennusa will share role Just announced today that the much-anticipated Broadway production of “Matilda” will alternate the demanding lead role among four young actresses, one of whom...
View Article‘Picnic’ a feast for Ellen Burstyn
Longtime Rocklander returns to Broadway after a decade away Ellen Burstyn likes to keep sharp. “I exercise my memory at every opportunity,” says the newly-minted 80-year-old, calling from her car on a...
View ArticlePlaces, please: High-school musical season, 2013
From ‘A Funny Thing…’ to ‘Zombie Prom,’ a slate awaits The cast of “Urinetown” at White Plains High School strikes a pose in a break from rehearsals. White Plains kicks off the musical season with the...
View ArticleDavid Hyde Pierce: Here
For 11 seasons, David Hyde Pierce played Dr. Niles Crane, the persnickety perfectionist younger brother of Kelsey Grammer’s Dr. Frasier Crane on TV’s “Frasier.” It’s how many people still see him. You...
View ArticleMetro Awards tap emcee: Broadway’s John Treacy Egan
The 16th annual Metropolitan High School Theater Awards are just around the corner and there’s news to report. Producer Danielle Rudess tells me the evening (June 3 in Peekskill) will be hosted by...
View ArticleA brush with Broadway’s Orlando Bloom mania
Local audiences will remember Nance Williamson from her years as a treasured member of Terry O’Brien’s company at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, where she and her husband, Kurt Rhoads, were...
View ArticleWhite Plains PAC plans special 10th anniversary
White Plains Performing Arts Center is cooking up a pretty special 10th anniversary party on Nov. 2. Headliners will include Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham (“Amadeus”) and Actors’ Equity President (and...
View Article‘Janis Joplin’ returns to The Cap
Mary Bridget Davies under the marquee at Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre, where, in 1970, Janis Joplin wrote her hit song, “Mercedes Benz.” Davies plays Joplin in “A Night with Janis Joplin” on...
View ArticleOne of the new Matildas has ties to Westchester
The Broadway production of “Matilda” today announced the four young actresses who’ll share the title role in alternating performances—and one of them has ties to the Lower Hudson Valley. Ava Ulloa, of...
View ArticleJacques le Sourd, Journal News’ last Broadway critic, dies
Jacques le Sourd, the longtime theater critic of The Journal News, has died. He collapsed on Feb. 5, outside the home of friends in Preston, Lancashire, England, where he had been living for more than...
View ArticleBarbara Cook: Here and now
Long before she wowed Broadway audiences as an Iowa librarian who falls in love with a traveling salesman, Tony-winner Barbara Cook played for an audience of one. One traveling salesman. Her father....
View ArticleExchange Disney Broadway tickets, no genie required
You’ve got tickets to take the kids to see “Aladdin” on Broadway tonight and the kid’s got the flu this morning. Disney Theatricals feels your pain and today announced a sea-change in how Broadway...
View ArticleHow Mike Nichols saved Elliott Forrest’s life
Nyack’s Elliott Forrest will never forget how Mike Nichols — who died in New York on Wednesday at age 83 — saved his life one night. OK, his professional life. It was Feb. 2, 2012, and Forrest, a radio...
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 ArticleHelen Hayes may take final bow on Broadway
Decades after her death, Helen Hayes may be making her final Broadway exit. The Jan. 18 closing of the musical “Rock of Ages” heralds what could be the end of an honor bestowed on a Rocklander for the...
View ArticleSecond Stage: Theater by new name may still honor Helen Hayes
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 “the first lady of the...
View ArticleStepinac will be first school to stage ‘Billy Elliot’
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 this year as the first...
View Article2015 Metros: In 11 videos #lohudmetros
Here are 11 videos representing the awards and some of the performances from the 2015 Metros. Everything from Thomson and Rice (sounds like a good vaudeville act, no?) and the selfie to Pleasantville’s...
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