BY GEORGE J. DACRE With a brand new young female vocalist, Natalie Angst, and a band ofmusicians from across the United States led by energetic Nick Hilscher(also a vocalist), the Glen Miller Orchestra had the fans standing at theend of a two hour concert at the Elmsford venue. Playing many of the Miller standards such […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE The 78-year-old Antrim Playhouse, founded in 1936 by a group of college students, faced a serious problem owing $30,000 in back taxes to the Town of Ramapo and The Village of Wesley Hills. But State Senator David Carlucci sponsored a bill in Albany to give the non-profit theatre a three year […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE ArtsRock and Temple Beth El in Nyack present Swingtime Big Band Home For Holidays on Saturday, December 13 at 8 p.m., at the Temple. Music of Goodman and Miller, Duke Ellington and Les Brown and some swinging Chanukah tunes along with vocalists doing Ella, Eartha Kitt, Judy Garland and more. Contact […]
Elmwood Playhouse’s “Sunday in the Park with George” music director, ASSAF GLEIZNER, and lead actress, KIMBERLY HAWKEY (Dot) will be doing double-duty on Sunday, December 7th. First, they’ll perform the Sunday matinee of Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical at 2 p.m., and when the curtain comes down they’ll immediately start setting up for a “Sundays at […]
BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA Bennett Miller is a filmmaker who seems to specialize in deep studies of American figures. He has focused on underdog Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane in “Moneyball,” acclaimed author Truman Capote in “Capote” and famous New York City bus tour-guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch in his documentary, “The Cruise.” With these films, […]
FOUR STARS! BY GEORGE J. DACRE The collaboration of the Antrim Players and the Helen Hayes Youth Theatre brought to the stage at the Tom France Theatre in Wesley Hills a remarkable presentation of Charles Dicken’s famous “A Christmas Carol – The Musical.” The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserable tightwad who was frugal with […]