Westchester’s oldest non-profit professional theater,The Schoolhouse Theater & Arts Center, is a cultural jewel renowned for innovative plays and programs.  In 1986, Jack Palance's daughter Brooke and actor/producer Michael Wilding (son of Elizabeth Taylor) performed Bedroom Farce, and the curtain went up.  Since then, it’s launched numerous productions to Off-Broadway, including B.H. Barry’s The Enlightenment of Mr. Mole, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Ingmar Bergman's Nora, and Lois Robbins’s L.O.V.E.R.
 

Lee Pope (1933-2020) founded The Schoolhouse Theater, and won the Westchester Arts Council’s Community Arts Award in April, 2018.  The Theater has been piloted since 2015 by Bram Lewis, a veteran producer, director, actor, and writer of more than 200 professional shows, plays, musicals, and premieres.  Lewis’s storied career has brought top-flight dramatists such as Alan Arkin, Blythe Danner, George Furth, Tina Howe, and Robert Klein into the fold.  In April 2019, before Covid shut down live theater, Brand Tuning provided original music for Schoolhouse's world premiere of The Color of Light, which featured Henri Matisse as played by Tony Award-nominee Tim Jerome.  And throughout the 2020-2023 Covid Era, Schoolhouse’s intrepid Pandemic Players performed weekly Zoom readings for its grateful subscribers.  No wonder The New York Times wrote, “The venerable Schoolhouse remains Westchester’s claim to truly professional theater.”  (www.theschoolhousetheater.org)

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2023 greeted the arrival of celebrated Artistic Director Owen Thompson, whose numerous productions have enjoyed rave reviews nationwide.  Owen kicked off Schoolhouse's 38th season in April with his production of John Logan's Tony and Olivier award-winning drama Red starring Patrick Lawlor and David Beck. Following Red's sold-out performances, Schoolhouse staged July's (mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story by Westchester playwright Joan Ross Sorkin, starring Broadway icon Tina Fabrique, and directed by renowned auteur Seret Scott. Schoolhouse's season will conclude in October with 3-Way Stop: an evening of one-act plays by James Sheldon, which Owen will also direct. Show dates are: 10/13 8:00, 10/14 3:00 and 8:00, 10/15 3:00; 10/20 8:00, 10/21 3:00 and 8:00, 10/22 3:00; 10/27 8:00, 10/28 3:00 and 8:00, and 10/29 3:00.  .

 

The Schoolhouse Theater is at 3 Owens Road Croton Falls NY 10519 schoolhousetheater@gmail.com.  Call/click for tickets: 914-473-7111.

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