BY GEORGE J. DACRE This is the age of Internet bullying and use of social media to embarrass people. The play “The Truth About Agnes,” written and directed by Samual Harps at Shades Repertory in Haverstraw, focuses on the trauma and disaster that bullying and embarrassing can involve. Agnes is brilliantly portrayed by Alexis Salem, […]
The oldest movie theater in Rockland County, The Lafayette Theater, will screen the newest summer blockbuster movie, “Iron Man 3” in 3D, on May 2 at 9 p.m., a day before its national release. Doors open at 8:30 pm. “Iron Man 3” in 3D is based on the exploits of a Marvel Comics superhero. The […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE PHOTOS BY JOHN VECCHIOLLA This perennial favorite hits the mark at Elmsford as a finely tuned cast puts on a musical that started out as a story by the famed Damon Runyon and wound up on Broadway in 1950 and has played many venues since then. Directed and choreographed by Richard […]
Accardi, Guarasci, DiBenedetto and Perez pull out all the stops with this one BY GEORGE J. DACRE With an onstage screen, strobe lights, special effects, a full eight piece orchestra, popcorn, hot dogs and cracker jacks, the Antrim Players have gone where no community theatre has gone before. The result is a smash musical about […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA After months of preparation, Rockland’s annual senior citizen theater production is set to begin their run of an original musical with an all senior cast on Saturday, April 27. This year’s show, which was written by director John Maloney, is called “Spaced Out.” It follows the story of three workers shooting off […]
An announcement from representatives at the Roots agency confirmed noted folk musician Richie Havens passed away on April 22 at the age of 72. Havens died of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City, leaving a legacy of soulful blues-folk music which resonated in the cultural landscape of the 1960s and continues to […]