From Broadway to a Pleasantville ‘Mattress’
For Kathryn Faughnan, acting is acting. In 2006, she was one of three girls to create the role of Jane Banks in Broadway’s “Mary Poppins.” She has also appeared on “Law & Order,” a bona fide if...
View ArticleHudson Stage sets “Love Song” cast
Hudson Stage has announced the cast for its spring mainstage production, John Kolvenbach’s “Love Song.” Nice to see Kurt Rhoads, a fixture at the excellent Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, is on the...
View ArticleBriarcliff? Meet Rydell High
“Usually, I have to sell the kids on a show,” said Briarcliff High School’s theater director Ian Driver. “Not this year.” This year, it’s “Grease!” a musical throwback to Rydell High and “Greased...
View ArticleMarch Musical Madness awaits
The start of this week’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament may be all hoop fans have been thinking of, but there’s another sort of March Madness that is well under way, and it’s much closer to home....
View ArticleRhoads has HVSF “Shrew” news
Just got off the phone with Kurt Rhoads, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare regular who’s in the cast of Hudson Stage’s spring show, “Love Song,” which opens this weekend. It’s shaping up to be a busy...
View ArticleFunny looks on Metro-North
For the next three weekends, Judith Hawking and Kurt Rhoads will play Joan and Harry, one of two couples in John Kolvenbach’s “Love Song” at Hudson Stage Company in Briarcliff Manor. Hawking, a...
View ArticleCreating worlds, romantic and otherwise
For its first six years, Hudson Stage Company went through its share of set designers. Then, in 2006, Romanian-born designer Andreea Mincic showed up to design “Manhattan Casanova” and she has been...
View ArticleSummercliff Players meet about “Urinetown”
Kathleen Donovan-Warren teaches and directs at Pleasantville High School during the school year, but returns to Briarcliff each summer to head up the Recreation & Parks Department Summercliff...
View Article2010 Metros nominations
Here, from Helen Hayes Youth Theater producer Danielle Rudess, are the nominations for the 2010 Metropolitan Awards, honoring achievements in participating high-school musicals from Westchester,...
View ArticleA rookie, a veteran, “La Cage”
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 out “The Best...
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