On April 27th, the Irvington Theater Commission debuted its Solo Series from the Stage (one-person solo performances of various genres that maintain strict social distancing while the theater is closed during the COVID-19 pandemic). Irvington Theater Manager, ... More »
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by Gregory Allen As the theater manager of the Irvington Theater, part of my job is to fill the calendar with a variety of outstanding live events for patrons to attend. All of that came to a halt two weeks ago when we started canceling March and April events ... More »
People and Businesses Offer Creative Ways to Fill Our Days By Barbara Moroch First, the bad news: Coronavirus pandemic (COVID–19) is upon us and has virtually upended the way we live, work, and interact with one another. Home is now a mandatory shelter for a... More »
by Tara Brandman – Rivertowns residents may often wander the streets of the villages wondering what worlds exist within the doorways and windows of the many artists’ ateliers. One such studio which the lucky wanderer may chance upon is that of Bruce Robbins, a... More »
by Thomas Staudter – Ordinarily, singer-songwriters Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky would be presenting yet another wholly entertaining evening of their folk-centric artistry at the Music Hall in Tarrytown on Friday, March 13. Just the usual bounty of sti... More »
by Lisa Genn – This place is full of objects that we love. They represent all the love this place is filled with,” Ellen Prior said, smiling broadly, during a recent interview at the Jazz Forum. Vibrant, colorful art adorns the gray walls—walls specially pain... More »
by Char Weigel – If Washington Irving, like Rip Van Winkle, awoke from years of slumber, he would celebrate his 237th birthday on Friday, April 3. Irving would be delighted to find a weekend of events to honor his role as a founding father of American literat... More »
by Shana Liebman What happens when a liberal female director embeds with Steve Bannon? On March 6, the Irvington Theater will screen the award-winning film, The Brink, a fascinating and complicated expose of Steve Bannon. Oddly enough, it was made by two liber... More »
by Thomas Staudter – Fans of le jazz hot, with an emphasis on deep grooves and winning melodies, will want to make their way to the Irvington Theater on Saturday, February 15 to hear the Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band, a sextet that brings together some vet... More »
River’s Edge Theatre Company will present In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) at Irvington Theater on Saturday, February 29 at 7:30 p.m. The Tony award-nominated play, written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Hastings-on-Hudson resident Sara Wolkowitz, featur... More »
by Robert Kimmel – Bright lights flashed onto the windows and exterior of the Citibank building at 2 South Broadway in Tarrytown last month as a robbery was taking place inside. The robbery was a filmed scene for the new CBS Television series “FBI: Most Wante... More »
by Linda Viertel – With the advent of a new year, comes the delightful prospect of new theatre. From February 28 to March 21, Lyndhurst’s picture gallery will be the site of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, produced by the M&M Performing Arts Compan... More »
By Robert Kimmel The long-vacated Citibank building at 2 South Broadway in Tarrytown is going to be put into use this coming week, but only on a very temporary basis. It will be used to film a bank robbery scene for the new CBS television series “FB... More »
by Paula Romanow Etzel – Noah Cornman is bringing it all back home. The 1992 Irvington High School graduate, who joyfully remembers “growing up on the stage of the Irvington Town Hall Theater,” returned in 2016 with his wife, Kerry, to raise their two childre... More »
by Elaine Marranzano – An atelier is a workshop for artists that is basically a studio. Now two Tarrytown residents have opened their own atelier and are welcoming students who want to learn the fine art of drawing and painting figures, portraits and still li... More »
by Thomas Staudter – A folk music festival in Irvington—presented in the middle of the winter? Carter Smith, the indefatigable impresario behind the long-running Common Ground Community Concerts series, acknowledged the idea was “counterintuitive.” Nonetheles... More »
by Lisa Genn – For the second year in a row, on Thursday, January 30 from 7 to 10 p.m., Tarrytown’s Jazz Forum will be opening its doors for a special event—a fundraising jazz and soul concert to benefit Community Voices Heard (CVH). CVH is a grassroots membe... More »
-by Shana Liebman On January 10, the Irvington Theater will screen the film, Roll Red Roll, a true-crime thriller about the famous 2012 Steubenville High School sexual assault case. Since premiering at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, the documentary has screen... More »
by Elaine Marrazano – Actor, playwright and Tarrytown native Keith Hamilton Cobb brought his award-winning new play about Shakespeare and race in America to the off-Broadway stage this summer after seven years of development. The Hudson Independent caught up ... More »
