Opinion: Elmwood Playhouse’s “Clybourne Park” Parallels Modern Times

One house, two acts and a span of fifty years set the stage for Bruce Norris’ 2010 play Clybourne Park, Elmwood Playhouse’s second production of their 76th season. The Tony and Pulitzer award-winning show, which opened on Friday, November 10 and will continue to run until Saturday, December 2, is one that Elmwood Board of […]

Nyack Poet David Klugman Debuts Epic Poem, “In the American Grain”

“For who is not mad in a country that has gone mad?” This existential question is one of several that Nyack-based poet, painter and former psychoanalyst David Klugman explores in his newly released epic poem, “In the American Grain.” On Tuesday, November 7—fittingly taking place the night of Election Day—Klugman debuted a truncated, three-act version […]

Coupé Today: Rockland County’s Oldest Dance School

  With a maiden name like “Coupé”—in ballet, a movement done on the upbeat to prepare for the step that follows—it’s fitting that Diane Frankel has dedicated her life to the stage. The England-born and trained founder of the fifty-three-year-old, 585 student-based Coupé Theatre Studio in Nanuet, New York hails from a long line of […]

2023 Winter Coat Drive Begins

Rockland County Legislator Aney Paul has partnered with TOUCH (Together Our Unity Can Heal) to conduct a Winter Coat Drive for the benefit of our neighbors. “Through circumstances not of their own making, many families and individuals find themselves without the means to buy something as necessary as a warm winter coat,” Legislator Paul said. […]

Three Rockland Seniors awarded for volunteerism

The New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) recently honored over 90 older adults for their volunteerism as part of NYSOFA’s annual Older New Yorkers’ Day celebration presented during a November 3 livestream. Three Rockland County volunteers, Chris Hughes, Bert Hughes, and Art Manion, were included in the broadcast, each of them celebrated for […]