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11.13.2022 Community

Efforts underway to ‘Save the Vail’ as Riverhead’s historic theater plans restoration

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 and forced businesses and theaters to shut down, Riverhead’s historic Vail-Leavitt Music Hall was no exception. “Once I saw the way that...

11.03.2022 Education

Blue Masques to present ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ starting Friday

As November arrives, people shift gears from Halloween and start preparing for the holidays, but the Blue Masques, Riverhead High School’s theater group, are keeping the Halloween spirit alive...

04.05.2022 Community

Photos: Riverhead Blue Masques present ‘SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical’

The auditorium at Riverhead High School has been transformed into Bikini Bottom as the Blue Masques present “Spongebob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical,” this weekend only. Performances of the 2016...

02.23.2022 Community

‘The Laramie Project,’ a play centered on tolerance and love, set to debut at North Fork Community Theatre

On Dec. 1, 2020, Cutchogue resident Huck Hirsch decided to honor Matthew Shepard, a young gay man from Wyoming who was killed in 1998. Mr. Shepard would have turned...

07.12.2021 Education

Riverhead High School students share group Teeny Award for musical revue

More than a dozen local students have a new accolade to add to their résumés: Teeny Award winner. The annual awards program from East End Arts celebrated the best...

05.20.2018 The Arts

Column: Shining a spotlight on local theater across the East End

[aesop_gallery id=”87192″ revealfx=”off”] The 19th-century Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in Riverhead was buzzing as Sophia Burke fielded one question after another. A bobby pin had just fallen from a girl’s...

01.21.2018 Columns

Column: Car accident led to grim prognosis for North Fork native

They met through a mutual friend more than two decades ago. Cathy Monsell can recall the precise day she first met her husband, Kevin: June 18, 1993. Eleven months...

11.30.2016 The Arts

A letter from years ago inspires woman’s play ‘Junkman’

Greenport resident Amie Sponza has acted in plays before. But when the leader of her theater workshop asked each member to write a short play, Ms. Sponza was stumped....

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