BY GEORGINA CASAZZA ELMSFORD – Westchester Broadway Theatre proudly presented their 207th production with the awe-inspiring musical “Phantom”, written by Arthur Kopit with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. Directed by longtime WBT alum, Tom Polum, who was actually in the original WBT production of the show in 1992, with musical direction by Bob Bray, […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Rockland’s own Adam Chanler-Barat, who started his acting career in Clarkstown schools, is back on Broadway in New York City playing the lead male romantic role to Phillapa Soo in “Amelie,” the new musical story of an innocent, naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to […]
Ricky Romano of Stony Point has been playing roles and directing several Hudson Valley shows, including starring as Sam in the Off-Broadway show “Towards the Moon” opening November 19 at the 59E59 Theatres, 59th Street in New York City. Sam is the buddy of Bobby in the production. Bobby is a frustrated, dreamer type fed […]
The colorful characters of Charles Dickens’ classic “Oliver Twist” come brilliantly to life in Victorian London at Westchester Broadway Theatre’s production of the famed show. The musical to be performed August 15 – September 8 at the theatre, tells the tale of the orphan boy who is swept into a band of pickpockets; the […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE – “Freedom Summer,” snowed out last Friday in Haverstraw, has been rescheduled for February 15, Friday at 8 p.m.at the Presbyterian Church. The play wll also be performed at Dominican College February 18, the Nyack Center, February 22 and in Washington, D.C. June 2. – “Guys and Dolls” opens March 21 […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE The year was 1964. It was a time of continuing frustration for black people in the State of Mississippi as obstacle after obstacle was put in their way as they tried to register to vote. They were still being demeaned by the white folk, called “n****r” and other derogatory slang. It […]