Peter Danish
Peter Danish is an award-winning author and playwright. He is also a Media Marketing Consultant and Classical Arts Presenter. He is a founding member of ArtsRock, where he presented concerts with such world renowned artists as Grammy winning Classical Guitarist Sharon Isbin, Grammy winning Violinist Marc O'Connor, The Eroica Trio, The American Brass Quintet, The New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet, Alec Baldwin, Louis Black and Robert Klein. At The Riverspace Performing Arts Center, he presented such artists as Meryl Streep, Jonathan Demme, Bill T. Jones, Bill Irwin, Mike Nichols, Ani Di Franco, Eve Ensler, Pete Seeger, Ellen Burstyn, Edward Albee and Kathleen Turner. He has programmed concerts and educational programs for a multitude of local arts organizations including the American National Opera and the Westchester Hudson Opera, and has lectured on opera and classical music in schools and libraries as part of their outreach programs. For over two decades he has served as Director of Marketing for NBC, Vice President of Marketing for Telemundo, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Azteca TV Network, and Marketing Consultant to PBS. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild of America, The Wagner Society of N.Y. and Board of Trustees of the award-winning classical concert series, The Carnegie Room Concerts at the Nyack Library. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ad Age, Ad Week and Media Week.
BWW Interview: Playwright Tom Dudzick of CHRISTMAS OVER THE TAVERN at MusicalFare, Buffalo, NY
BWW Review: SHE LOVES ME at Elmwood Playhouse, Nyack, N.Y.
BWW Review: THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY PERFORMS ROSENHAUS, WEBER AND DVORAK
BWW Interview: Ted Rosenthal Composer of DEAR ERICH, NYCO at the Museum Of Jewish Heritage
BWW Interview: Erica Miner Author of DEATH BY OPERA
BWW Review: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at White Plains Performing Arts Center
BWW Interview: Joe D'Urso of ROCKLAND / BERGEN MUSIC FESTIVAL at German Masonic Park, Tappan NY
BWW Feature: APRILE MILLO revisits ADRIANA LECOUVREUR at Theatro Municipal, Rio De Janeiro
BWW Review: FUN HOME at White Plains Performing Arts Center
BWW Review: NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, WITH PIANIST GEORGE LI at Bergen PAC
BWW Interview: Ted Rosenthal Composer of DEAR ERICH, NYCO at the Museum Of Jewish HeritageDecember 10, 2018
BWW Interview: Ted Rosenthal composer of DEAR ERICH at Museum Of Jewish Heritage
BWW Interview: Erica Miner Author of DEATH BY OPERADecember 10, 2018
BWW Interview: Erica Miner author of DEATH BY OPERA
BWW Review: THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY PERFORMS ROSENHAUS, WEBER AND DVORAKNovember 14, 2018
BWW Review: THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY PERFORMS ROSENHAUS, WEBER AND DVORAK
BWW Interview: Playwright Tom Dudzick of CHRISTMAS OVER THE TAVERN at MusicalFare, Buffalo, NYNovember 14, 2018
BWW Interview: Playwright Tom Dudzick of OVER THE TAVERN at MusicalFare
BWW Review: SHE LOVES ME at Elmwood Playhouse, Nyack, N.Y.November 14, 2018
Ironically, Miklos Laszlo's 1937 play 'Parfumerie' was not produced in the United States until 2009. Yet that did not stop the Hungarian hit from becoming the inspiration for a whole host of American films, plays and musicals: first the 1940 film, 'The Shop Around the Corner' with James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan, then in 1949 as 'In the Good Old Summertime' with Judy Garland and Van Johnson, then in 1998 as 'You've Got Mail,' with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. It also inspired the 1964 musical by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, (the team behind 'Fiddler on the Roof').
BWW Interview: David Bernard of THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY Discusses Their Exciting New Season!November 6, 2018
BWW Interview: David Bernard of THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY discusses their new season
BWW Review: TOSCA at The Metropolitan OperaOctober 28, 2018
BWW Review: TOSCA at Metropolitan Opera
BWW Review: CONSTELLATIONS at Hudson Stage CompanyOctober 25, 2018
CONSTELLATIONS at Hudson Stage Company
BWW Review: FUN HOME at White Plains Performing Arts CenterOctober 18, 2018
'Fun Home' the Tony-winning musical, based on Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel, is a serious show about a serious topic, showing how members of a dysfunctional family come to terms - sort of - with their sexuality, and their place in the world. Spoiler: some of them deal with it better than others.
BWW Review: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at Elmwood PlayhouseSeptember 20, 2018
'I dreamed I was 52 and unmarried,' so says Sonia, at the very beginning of Christopher Durang's dryly eccentric comedy about the middle-aged children of a pair of literary professors who thoughtlessly named their children after the characters in Chekov plays.
BWW Feature: STAGE TO SCREEN: THE BLIND DATE - A New Film by Peter DanishSeptember 14, 2018
BWW Feature: STAGE TO SCREEN: THE BLIND DATE - A New Film by Peter Danish
BWW Review: SOUVENIR at Penguin Repertory TheatreAugust 28, 2018
Singing poorly is an easy task for those of us who can't sing. But it's daunting task to singers who have spent a lifetime refining their vocal production. As Florence Foster Jenkins Debra Jean Templin puts aside all of her skill and technique to become the legendary tone-deaf diva, society matron cum opera singer.
BWW Review: DEATH OF A SALESMAN at Elmwood PlayhouseJuly 27, 2018
BWW Review: DEATH OF A SALESMAN at Elmwood Playhouse
BWW Review: CLEVER LITTLE LIES at Penguin Repertory TheatreJuly 2, 2018
BWW Review: CLEVER LITTLE LIES at Penguin Repertory Theatre
BWW Interview: Joe D'Urso of ROCKLAND / BERGEN MUSIC FESTIVAL at German Masonic Park, Tappan NYJune 7, 2018
BWW Interview: Joe D'Urso of ROCKLAND BERGEN MUSIC FESTIVAL at German Masonic Park, Tappan NY
BWW Review: RELATIVITY by Mark St. Germain at Penguin Repertory TheatreMay 27, 2018
BWW Review: 'RELATIVITY' BY MARK ST. GERMAIN at Penguin Repertory Theatre
BWW Review: THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY PERFORMS MAHLER'S 1ST SYMPHONY at The Church Of The Good ShepardMay 18, 2018
BWW Review: THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY PERFORMS MAHLER'S 1ST SYMPHONY at The Church Of The Good Shepard
BWW Review: A FOX ON THE FAIRWAY at Elmwood PlayhouseMay 17, 2018
Ken Ludwig had a worldwide hit with 'Lend Me a Tenor,' which was a throwback of sorts to the madcap physical British stage comedies of yesteryear. According to all the press materials for his play, 'A Fox on the Fairway,' this play is another tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s. And truth be told there are many valid comparisons, but the comedy is of a far less polished and elegant form in his play (the female love interest actually says she needs to kiss her paramour's 'balls' for luck). This kind of low brow humor is found everywhere in 'A Fox on the Fairway.'
BWW Previews: 2018 SEASON PREVIEW at Penguin Repertory TheatreMay 14, 2018
Every spring for the last 40 years, something very special has happened in Rockland County: the Penguin Rep, the not-for-profit professional Equity theatre started by artistic director Joe Brancato in 1977, begins its season. This year will be their 41st season! Brancato along with with executive director Andrew M. Horn -- has grown Penguin from a small summer theatre into what the New York Times calls: 'the gutsiest little theater!' - one of the Hudson Valley's most influential nonprofit cultural institutions, and nearly half a million theater-goers have passed through its doors during that time.
BWW Review: The NJSO Performs MENDELSSOHN & SIBELIUS at Bergen PACMay 9, 2018
The well-worn, and well-loved Mendelssohn Violin concerto lead off the first half of the program, as Violinist Ning Feng brought great energy and virtuosity to what must be just about the most-performed violin concerto of all time. Mendelssohn broke tradition by introducing the solo instrument right at the beginning of the piece and also by writing out the solo cadenza. Prior to this concerto, cadenzas had generally been completely improvised by the soloist. Mendelssohn's letters have told us that he chose to connect the movements of his concerto into one uninterrupted piece because he detested mid-performance applause - which he viewed as an annoying distraction, and it was a masterstroke.
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