Category Archives: Reviews

By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor It’s not often when you see a play about an election that doesn’t involve backroom drama, a candidate’s demons, or the breathless election-night count. No, Bernard Cubria is interested in the so-called myth...

Ride the Cyclone is an entertaining and engrossing musical that will be performed this weekend at Pierson Playhouse by the newly formed Theatre Palisades Teen (TPTeen) group. “Okay, this is insane, how are we going to do this?” said Scarlett...

  By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor It wasn’t until 1939 before Noel Coward’s Design for Living hit the London stage, despite having opened on Broadway seven years before. The London critics thought the play too risqué. Coward wrote...

Instead of spending another boring evening scrolling through streaming services, how about having some real fun? Grease, performed by Theatre Palisades Youth, is exceptional. . . .and fun . . ..and cute . . . and filled with enthusiasm ....

This reviewer has had enough of nonstop reporting on politics. It is impossible to escape because it is on local, national, news sites, on social media and even relatives are garrulous. Take a three-hour escape and go see Palisades Charter...

Les Miserable, which explores themes from abuse to poverty to revolution, seems like an unlikely choice for a youth theater show. But, Theatre Palisades Youth and Teen Director Lara Ganz, takes this musical and her 53 actors, and makes it...