Live Theater Returns to the Schoolhouse with their American Icons Season
Live Theater Returns to the Schoolhouse with their American Icons Season
The venerable Schoolhouse Theater, Westchester’s oldest professional theater, reopens after a three year hiatus. Their stage in Croton Fall remained dark longer than most arts organizations as their COVID shutdown ran into a seven figure renovation that was stretched out due to supply chain issues affecting construction all across America. Of course, the Schoolhouse’s Producing Director Bram Lewis did not sit still during the period as his Pandemic Players stepped up to present over 100 ZOOM readings of plays that ranged from Samuel Becket to Molière for the local community and beyond to anyone with a high-speed internet connection.
“The good news,” as Bram Lewis told me “is that we’re back with productions of three on-stage plays – and the roof doesn’t leak.” Their 2023 “American Icons” season of live performances opens in April with a production of John Logan’s Red. Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko, received six Tony Awards , including Best Play, when it ran on Broadway in 2010. Logan was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Gladiator in 2000, The Aviator in 2004, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Hugo in 2011. He also won the 2007 Golden Globe for Tim Burton’s musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
The Schoolhouse Theater’s American Icons season moves on to Elizabeth Diggs’ Grant and Twain, in late June and early July. The play explores the relationship forged between the two men when Twain’s publishing company fronts Grant for his memoirs after he was swindled out of his life savings from a Ponzi scheme. The Personal Memoirs of US Grant, written while he was dying of cancer, is considered a classic of American literature. The Schoolhouse’s American Icons season concludes with the production of Joan Ross Sorkin’s (mis)Understanding Mammy the Hattie McDaniel Story, the first African American to win an Academy Award in October.
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