FROM PAGE TO STAGE. The annual Young Playwrights featuring Briarcliff High School Students performing their original one-acts. One of our season’s highlights celebrating the boldest and brightest talents!
$10 suggested door donation. Directed by Jamie Mandel and Ian Driver.
by Joshua Allen
Director: Cezar Williams
Patricia R. Floyd
Yvette Ganier
Trevor Latez Hayes
Philipe D. Preston
Courtney Thomas
Production Stage Manager: Ann Barkin
Set Design: Alan C. Edwards
Costumes: Leslie Bernstein
Lighting Designer: Paul Vaillancourt
Sound Design: Kimberly S. O’Loughlin
Assistant Stage Manager: Anthony Rigaglia
In 1960’s Southside Chicago, a troubled war veteran moves into an apartment building and the residents become caught in an emotional whirlwind that threatens to change their lives forever. In the center of the conflict are the building’s landlady, Mrs. Elkins and her 16-year-old granddaughter, Gloria.
The production ran from October 8 through October 23, 2021
Whippoorwill Theatre, North Castle Public Library, Kent Place, Armonk, NY 10504
Click here to see photos of the production…
HUDSON STAGE zoom performance of a very short one-act by JOSHUA ALLEN (TV’s EMPIRE, upcoming NETFLIX: FROM SCRATCH and HBO’s In Treatment) addressing this moment in time. Lauren logs into Zoom, expecting a long-overdue catch-up with old friends from college. What she doesn’t expect is to confront a complicated, and possibly unresolved, relationship from her past.
Writer Joshua Allen
Directed by Cezar Williams
Production Stage Manager: Helen Irene Muller
Cast: Betty Gabriel and Chris Messina
Introduction by: LaChanze (Founding Member of Black Theatre United)
Joshua Allen is the writer of THE OCTOBER STORM, slated for a world premiere with HSC this past spring but now postponed to our 2021 season.
Hudson Stage programming is underwritten, in part, by funds from ArtsWestchester and the Westchester County Government, NY.
STAGED READING: EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
December 6th at 7:30PM
by Brian Dykstra
Directed by Margarett Perry
Featuring actors Vince Gatton, Tracey Conyer Lee, Larry Powell and Lori Prince.
What starts out like a Who’s on First sketch about an out-of-service staircase turns into a sly commentary on office politics, glass ceilings, income inequality and racism in Corporate America. Be a part of the process: A Q&A with all participating artists will immediately follow the performance.
“Brian Dykstra is a master of language!”
– Huffington Post
$10 general admission, no reservations necessary. FREE parking.
Whippoorwill Theatre, North Castle Public Library, Kent Place, Armonk, NY
by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Margarett Perry
Cast
Denise Bessette
Rachel Kent
Kurt Rhoads
Mary Stout
Scenery by David A. Arsenault
Lighting by Andrew Gmoser
Costumes by David Toser
Sound by Michael Costagliola
Stage Managed by Ann Barkin
Executive Producer Olivia Sklar
Bruce Apar/Broadway World Westchester:
“… the 90-minute play flew by in what seemed like half that time, a credit to director Margarett Perry and the very skillful cast.”
Linda Leavitt/The Scarsdale Inquirer and The Rye Record Review:
“Hudson Stage is a Westchester gem, proving that you don’t need to venture far from home or pay steep prices to see provocative professional theater.”
Friday June 21, 2019- 7:30pm
STAGED READING OF A NEW PLAY
Written by Brad McKnight Wilson
Directed by Addie Gorlin
A family-friendly love story, Hollow Bones explores the depth of connection between a teenage girl and a bird who can truly speak her language. A meditation on language, partnership and parrots.
This program is made possible in part, by ArtsWestchester with funds from Westchester County government.
FRIDAY, MAY 31st at 7:30pm
STAGED READING OF A NEW PLAY
Written by Tammy Ryan
Directed by Ellie Heyman.
It is July 1977. Son of Sam is on the loose and New York City is in the midst of a brutal heat wave. Sixteen year-old Mary Claire and her best friend Mary Francis start that day sunning themselves on the roof of an Ozone Park row house. Younger sister Reenie is searching for her lost Greek Mythology class project, while their parents are consumed by the battles of their troubled marriage. An overstressed electrical grid leads to a citywide blackout and a sudden loss of innocence.
This program is made possible in part, by ArtsWestchester with funds from Westchester County government.
by David Auburn
Cast
Cadden Jones
Jenna Krasowski
Jayson Speters
John Wojda
Scenery by Steven C. Kemp
Lighting by Karen Spahn
Costumes by Leslie Bernstein
Sound by Garrrett Hood
Fight Director Jared Kirby
Stage Managed by Emily Roth
Executive Producers Denise Bessette, Dan Foster, Olivia Sklar
Directed by Dan Foster
“Haunting and mesmerizing. Do yourself a favor and catch this one. Brava!”
Broadway World
Hudson Stage Company is the gold standard in this region for theater…as satisfying and compelling a theater experience as any you’ll find.” Yorktown News
Dates: March 29- April 13, 2019
Location: Whippoorwill Hall Theatre
Thursday March 14, 2019 – 7:30pm
Featuring the talents of Briarcliff High School students and their original one-act plays. Directed by Jamie Mandel and Ian Driver.
No reservations necessary. $10.00 donation at door.
Whippoorwill Theatre-North Castle Public Library
Kent Place, Armonk, NY
Friday January 18, 2019
7:30pm
Whippoorwill Theatre
Kent Place, North Castle Public Library, Armonk, NY
$10 door donation. No reservations necessary.
Written by JOSHUA ALLEN
Directed by JADE KING CARROLL
In 1921, a young shoemaker is consumed with dreams of leaving his home in rural Mississippi for the excitement of Chicago, but tragedy befalls them on the way to the Promised Land. Many years later, his dreams unfulfilled, he and his wife discover the true price of his ambition. Their future becomes uncertain as they are forced to confront the demons of their past and the emptiness of their present.
PLAYWRIGHT
Joshua Allen, a native of Chicago, is currently a co-executive producer on the Emmy-winning Fox TV series “Empire” and is developing new programming under a deal with 20th Century Fox Television. His other plays include Boy in a Blue Tweed Suit, Chrysalis, and The October Storm. His work has been developed at the Cape Cod Theater Project, Primary Stages, the Lark Play Development Center, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is also an alumus of New Dramatists, the Ars Nova Play Group, and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. Joshua is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School.
