Theatre, Dance & Comedy May 2017

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Theatre, Dance & Comedy May 2017: There’s laughs in Armonk and Steel Magnolias too. Billy Porter, Bill T. Jones & Arne Zane for dance lovers – CT Ballet, too. Plus Shakespeare, Mama Mia and The Marx Brothers.

Local! SHERLOCK HOLMES MEETS MONTY PYTHON! The Hound of the Baskerville’s, Hudson Stage Company, NCPL – Fri- Sun, 4/28- 5/13: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a comedic makeover in this cheeky spoof. Three actors take on more than twenty roles in retelling the story of the classic thriller with the killer dog in this production that is billed as part Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers and Monty Python! (Whippoorwill Hall Theatre, North Castle Library, Kent Place, Armonk; www.hudsonstage.com)

Mama Mia, Westchester Broadway Theatre – Thurs, 3/23- Sun, 6/25: Based on the songs of the Swedish pop group ABBA, Mama Mia, is set on the Greek island of Kalokairi. A 20 year old woman named Sophie wants to have a traditional wedding and hopes her father will walk her down the aisle, but there’s one problem: she has no idea who her father is! With help from her mother’s journal, she narrows the possibilities down to three men, and hilarity ensues as they all claim her as their child! Featuring the ABBA hits “Dancing Queen”, “Thank You for the Music”, and, of course, “Mamma Mia!”. (One Broadway Plaza, Elmsford; www.broadwaytheatre.com)

Marion Grodin, Palace Stamford – Thurs, 5/4: 8pm. Noted for her “self-revealing” improvisational style, Marion Grodin is a regular headliner at Standup NY and Gotham Comedy Club. She has appeared on Conan O’Brien, toured with Lewis Black, Judy Gold and Robert Klein and has shared the stage with Jerry Seinfeld, Roseanne Barr and Robin Williams. Yes, she is Charles Grodin’s daughter. (61 Atlantic St., Stamford; www.palacestamford.org)

Kevin Nealon, Ridgefield Playhouse – Thurs, 5/4: 8pm. Nealon is best known for his nine-year stint as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, where he was Franz of Hans and Franz the “pump you up” men. He has received critical acclaim for his role in the Showtime series, Weeds. His feature film credits include Anger Management, The Wedding Singer, Happy Gilmore and Daddy Day Care. He currently stars in the CBS comedy Man With A Plan alongside Matt Le Blanc. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Billy Porter, Emelin Theatre – Fri, 5/5: 8pm: A Tony® and GRAMMY® Award-winner, Billy Porter is a singer, composer, actor, playwright and director. Having won the 2013 Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as “Lola” in the smash hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots. he traded in his high heels for tap shoes to join Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell in Savion Glover’s revival of Shuffle Along, “the [2016] season’s essential ticket” according to The New York Times. (153 Library Ln., Mamaroneck; www.emelin.org)

Thirty Something, The Connecticut Ballet, Stamford Palace – Sat, 5/6: 7:30pm: 35th anniversary program featuring revivals of three dynamic one-act ballets: Les Sylphides, a classic ballet to music by Chopin, Strays by Paul Taylor dancer Lila York to Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, and Steam Heat: The Best of Bob Fosse by the creator of such classics as Chicago, Pippin, and Sweet Charity. Tickets just $35 to honor CB’s 35th. (61 Atlantic St., Stamford; www.palacestamford.org)

Affordable Pricing for families! Hamlet, The National Players, Westchester Community College – Sat, 5/6: 8pm: America’s longest running touring company from Washington DC, The National Players has presented over 6,600 performances bringing affordable professional theatre to 41 states since 1949. Here they present Shakespeares’ ghost story, comedy, thriller and seven-murder tale of revenge about Hamlet the Prince of Denmark. Tickets are just $22 for adults and $16 for kids under 13 for this 2 hour production. (75 Grasslands Rd., Valhalla; www.wunywcc.edu)

Twelfth Night, NTL Live, Performing Arts Center Purchase – Sat, 5/6: 8pm. Experience the best of British theatre, recorded live and broadcast in spectacular digital HD. Simon Godwin (Man and Superman, The Beaux’ Stratagem) directs this joyous new production with Tamsin Greig as a transformed Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity. “A knock out. Simon Godwin has pulled off a wowser. Tamsin Greig gives one of the performances of the year. “ – The Times (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

Local! Steel Magnolias, Armonk’s Small Town Theatre Company – Fri-Sat, 5/12-13: 8pm: See what goes on in the beauty parlor in Louisiana when Armonk’s Small Town Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Robert Haring’s 1987 comedy-drama about the bond amongst Southern women – as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel. The play ran Off-Broadway for 1125 performances from 1987 to 1990, was made into a motion picture in 1990 and debuted on Broadway in 2005. Admission is just $15. (The Hergenhan Center, 40 maple Ave., Armonk; www.smalltowntheatre.com)

Dance off the Grid, Emelin Theatre – Fri, 5/12: 8pm. This standout dance series at the Emelin Theatre continues with three dance companies at each performance. This one features 10 Hairy Legs that explores the male role in dance; Palissimo, the Bessie Award-winning dance company that merges the abstract aspects of dance with the nonlinear qualities of theatre and mise-en-scène into multidisciplinary works, and the iconic, internationally distinguished post-Modern Trisha Brown Dance Company. (153 Library Ln., Mamaroneck; www.emelin.org)

Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company, Performing Arts Center Purchase – Sat, 5/13: 8pm: The innovative Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company presents a new work, Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist, (Part II of the Analogy Trilogy). Lance tells an often tragic and sometimes outrageously humorous narrative based on the life of Bill T. Jones’ nephew Lance. The work explores Lance’s life in the underworld of the 80s and 90s club culture and sex trade. Composer Nick Hallett and baritone Matthew Gamble provide accompaniment with a mixture of lullabies, R&B and house music. They will perform onstage while the dance evokes a ballet class, a disco, and more indefinable interior landscapes. (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

Brian Reagan, Paramount Hudson Valley – Sat, 5/13: 8pm. One of Jerry Seinfeld’s favorite comedians, Reagan made history in 2015 with his live broadcast from Radio City Music Hall – the first in Comedy Central’s history. He has been featured in Chris Rock’s Film Top Five, Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and has released 6 TV specials including The Epitome of Hyperbole and I Walked on the Moon. (1008 Brown St., Peekskill; www.paramounthudsonvalley.com)

The Cocoanuts, Jacob Burns Film Center – Wed, 5/17: 1 & 7pm: It’s not stand up but if you need a laugh, the Marx Brothers can always provide one. In their 1929 feature film debut, set during the 1920s Florida land boom, Groucho plays the manager of the Hotel de Cocoanut, a barely reputable establishment he runs with his assistant, Jamison (Zeppo). When two conmen—Chico and Harpo—arrive at the hotel, no guest is safe from their scheming, including poor Mrs. Potter, played by the great Margaret Dumont. (364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville; www.burnsfilmcenter.org)

The Jason Bishop Show, “America’s Hottest Illusionist”, Tarrytown Music Hall – Sun, 5/21: 2pm: Jason performs original state-of-the-art magic. Each show features exclusive large illusions and award-winning sleight-of-hand and “close-up” magic that is captured live and projected onto plasma screens, giving the audience a clear view of every detail. The show is delivered with a modern energy and a rock & pop soundtrack. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Coming in June…

Local! Our Town, The Armonk Players, Whippoorwill Hall at NCPL – Fri-Sat, 6/2-3, Thurs-Sat, 6/8-10: 8pm & Sun, 6/4: 4pm: To celebrate it’s 20th anniversary, The Armonk Players present Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about everyday people’s everyday lives in the fictional small town Grover’s Corners at the beginning of the 20th century. The play is famous for it’s “metatheatrical” devices. It is set on a bare stage, the main character is the narrator who brings in guest lecturers, and the actors work without props. Tickets are just $20. (Whippoorwill Hall Theatre, North Castle Library, Kent Place, Armonk; www.armonkplayers.org)

Local! L.O.V.E.R, Schoolhouse Theatre – Thurs-Sun, 6/8-11, 6/15-18 & 6-22-25: L.O.V.E.R. is the world premier of a new theater work from the creative mind and talent of Lois Robbins. It’s a comic and poignant riff she describes as: A TALE OF LOVE AND LUST FROM A #GROWN-UP WOMAN’S P.O.V. (3 Owens Rd., North Salem; www.wchoolhousetheatre.org)