BY GEORGE J. DACRE This is a play about a family that gets through happenstances. They find themselves–a young couple expecting a baby and the mother’s father–squeezed in to live together in a small apartment in Stamford, Connecticut when the mother-in-law becomes an unexpected guest after home burns down. Abe Dreyfus, the father (played wonderfully […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE With a cast of four Dinner With Friends is the story of two couples who are best friends but one couples marriage breakup causes their friendship to become strained. Steve Taylor, as Gabe, and Claudia Stefany, as his wife Karen, get the news from Beth (Mary Ashley) who says her husband […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Director Peter Garruba has scheduled the auditions for “Squabbles” at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack for Monday February 11 and Tuesday February 12 both at 7 p.m. Callbacks are Wednesday February 13 at 7 p.m. at the theatre on Park Street. He says the cast breakdown includes: – Jerry Sloan; a 38-year-old […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Using actual transcripts, “The Exonerated” at Elmwood Playhouse is presented in narrative form, with the accused telling their stories of being unfairly or inaccurately accused of crimes including murder, often serving decades in prison before finally being exonerated by use of DNA or confessions by other people. Elmwood makes an excellent […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Reminiscence of Nat King Cole by Joe Bourne slated for Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford February 25. The Gary Moran Trio backs up Bourne in a trip down memory lane. Tickets at 914-592-2222 or broadwaytheatre.com. – “Other People’s Money” by Jerry Sterner and directed by Derek Tarson opens at Antrim Playhouse, […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE On stage through October 4 Director of “Living Out” Kathy Gnazzo says we sometimes forget that undocumented workers have a human face; that they are, in fact, “just people.” The play, running through October 4 at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack, depicts mainly the life of young immigrant women who work as […]