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1 week ago | 
fireislandnews.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff |Shoshanna McCollum
EastLine Theatre, in collaboration with the Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts, presents Yentl by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Based on Singer’s 12-page short story, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, this full-length play explores themesof love, gender, and identity. Singer was a renowned Polish-American Jewish author of the 20th century whose distinguished career spanned nearly seven decades.
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1 month ago | 
fireislandnews.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff |Shoshanna McCollum
Playcrafters Theater Company welcomes spring with The Outgoing Tide, a contemporary family dramedy exploring choices, conflicts, and the complexities of the parent-child relationship. Directed by Deb Starker and featuring Amelia Chiaramonte, Jack Hartman, and Richard Schindler, the show runs from March 28 to April 6, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
fireislandnews.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff |Shoshanna McCollum
Playcrafters Theater Company welcomes spring with The Out Going Tide, a contemporary family dramedy exploring choices, conflicts, and the complexities of the parent-child relationship. Directed by Deb Starker and featuring Amelia Chiaramonte, Jack Hartman, and Richard Schindler, the show runs from March 28 to April 6, 2025.
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2 months ago | 
fireislandnews.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff |Shoshanna McCollum
Are you a fan of classic American theatre? Then acquaint yourself with the Clare Rose Playhouse on the scenic Lakeside campus of St. Joseph’s University in Patchogue. Their latest production, “The Trip to Bountiful,” opens on February 21 and runs through March 9, 2025. The talented cast includes Joel Cardoza, Tom Ciorciari, Tamralynn Dorsa, Bobby James Evers, Renne McClean, Lisa Meckes, and Lon Shomer.
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2 months ago | 
fireislandnews.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff |Shoshanna McCollum
If passing by the Patchogue Theatre, perhaps ask yourself what the Marx Brothers, Bette Davis, and John Phillip Sousa have in common? During their illustrious careers, these legendary artists performed at the Ward & Glynne’s Theater, which opened in 1923. In its heyday, the “Grand Dame” of Patchogue showcased first-run feature films, Broadway productions, burlesque, vaudeville, and live music performances. Over time, the theatre suffered financial hardships and was shuttered.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
patch.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff
EastLine Theatre ends its successful 2024 season at the BACCA Arts Center with Kate Hamill's 2018 radical stage adaptation of the classic coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women." Published in 1868, Alcott's "Little Women," set during and after the American Civil War, tells the story of the March sisters.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
messengerpapers.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff
By Cindi Sansone-BraffPhoto credit – Jeff BellanteIf you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the one you used to know, The Gateway’s “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: The Musical” is the place to be! Jam-packed with some of the finest “Great White Way” actors and expertly directed by Randy Skinner, the original choreographer for the 2008 Broadway production, this holiday classic brings the magic and wonder of Broadway to Bellport.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
fireislandnews.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff |Shoshanna McCollum
“Greetings!” is South Shore Theatre’s latest production to help jumpstart the Yuletide season. It opened on December 6, 2024. This captivating holiday favorite was the actor-turned-playwright Tom Dudzick’s first play. Mixing dogma with spirituality, New Age philosophy with atheism, humor with pathos, and Hanukkah with Christmas, this well-crafted two-act, five-character play has entertained audiences for over three decades.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
smithtownmatters.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff
There’s No Yuletide Without Theatre Three’s “A Christmas Carol.”By Cindi Sansone-BraffPhotos: Steve AyleChristmastime is about tradition and sharing time-tested holiday rituals with family and friends, like shopping for a tree, making a gingerbread house, hanging decorations, and visiting Santa. For Long Islanders, to miss Theatre Three’s annual production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is pure humbug and gosh-darn sacrilegious.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
patch.com | Cindi Sansone-Braff
Divaria Productions Opera Company's multidisciplinary adaptation of "Madame Butterfly" electrified Saturday night's Bay Street audience, and they showed their approval by jumping to their feet and giving a long, rousing standing ovation. Based on David Belasco's 1900 one-act play, Giacomo Puccini wrote five versions of this opera. The first two-act version opened at La Scala in 1904, was poorly received and quickly closed.
