Artistic director Joe Brancato and literary manager Angelo Parra announced that this year’s series of the popular Monday evening “Play With Your Food” series of new play readings begins this Monday, June 11 with a reading of “The Coach” by award-winning comic playwright Matt Hoverman. Subsequent readings in the series are scheduled Mondays, July 16, […]
By George J. Dacre A Lot Of Fun At Westchester Broadway Theatre Singer, director, actor, John Fogarty and a very talented cast put on “The Great Pretender” Monday evening at the Westchester Broadway Theatre and your reviewer loved it. With great fifties music taking them from scene to scene Fogarty and John West, who played private eye Jack […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Four Stars!! Katie Leenig stars in her final TZ show Katie Lennig started performing at age two and on Sunday afternoon she concluded her high school acting career with the title role in Tappan Zee High School’s production of “Sweet Charity”. Playing the role of Charity Hope Valentine, Leenig was showered […]
By Donna Schmidt In 1997, Samuel Harps was wearing sunglasses. His future looking bright, he took them off and laid them on the table. He and an actor friend, Tony Ortiz, were at SUNY Rockland Community College showing one of Harps’ plays when a gentleman approached them, “I would like to donate to your organization, […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE – “The Seven Last Words Of Christ”, an oratorio, will be presented by Hudson Lyric Opera, Saturday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, Stony Point and Friday, March 30 at 8:30 p.m. at Clarkstown Reformed Church, West Nyack, and Wednesday, April 4 at 8 p.m. at Pilgrim […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE This play by Charles Fuller tells the story of a mythical military base inFort Neal, Louisiana. Black soldiers with a white commander become embroiled in a murder mystery in which their colored non-commissioned officer leader was shot and killed while he was in a drunken stupor. Technical Sergeant Vernon C. Waters […]