BY GEORGE J. DACRE The Reverend Bernie Khaw, who started playing guitar at an early age in Burma, is building up a following and increasing the membership in his church on Rosman Road in Thiells and is inviting volunteer singers and guitarists and other musicians to join his Praise Band. Reverend Bernie says there is […]
Artists show the ordinary can be extraordinary and the ugly, beautiful STORY AND PHOTOS BY LILY BETJEMAN Tinkers, Artists, Innovators: Bricolage might justify a hoarder’s conviction that junk serves a purpose, but a deeper look reveals a playful inquiry into the meaning of objects. What happens when cast-off possessions are re-purposed with a new intention? […]
Original “Titanic” Broadway cast member Drew McVety will again set sail in the Tony Award-winning musical, which begins performances at WBT on January 16. The production, which is a new intimate adaptation of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s lushly scored musical about the doomed ocean liner, will run through February 23. Original cast member Don […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE – Shades Repertory Theatre of Haverstraw will show “Thurgood,” a film by George Stevens Jr. and starring Lawrence Fishburne, February 1. “Freedom Summer Part 2” by William Tucker, with Sam Wayman of Nyack as musical director will be presented February 7 and 8. August Wilson’s “Radio Golf” is on stage weekends […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE “Love, Loss and What I Wore” at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack is is a hilarious piece of theatre. A collaboration of Nora and Delia Ephron based on a book by Ilene Beckerman featuring various skits (there are 28 scenes), the cast delivers some very funny observations of their lives and loves […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE With an electrifying performance by Kristin-Leigh Nicholson, a second grade teacher at Montebello School in Suffern, this 418th production at the famed Tom France Theatre at Antrim Playhouse is theatre at its best. It is a bit long (three and a half hours, with two intermissions) but for area theatergoers, I […]