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 […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE The ArtsRock Puppet festival is gearing. It will be part of the ArtsRock Milk and Cookies Playhouse series and is set for Saturday, January 18, 2 p.m. at the Nyack Center, 58 Depew Avenue. ArtsRock says you can watch your child’s eyes light up with delight as they experience the magic […]