Schoolhouse Theater spotlights award

From left: Bram Lewis, Schoolhouse artistic director; board member Francis Corcoran; Peter Kamenstein, North Salem deputy supervisor; board member Joan Gilbert; North Salem Supervisor Warren Lucas; and Lee Pope. Photo by Doug Abdelnour.

The Schoolhouse Theatre & Arts Center”™s founder Lee Pope was among those receiving honors at ArtsWestchester”™s 2018 Arts Award Luncheon at the Westchester Country Club in Rye. The theater put the event in the spotlight with a page of photos on its website, schoolhousetheater.org.

Pope founded the theater in 1983 by transforming an old elementary school building in Croton Falls into a visual arts center. The classrooms became galleries and studio spaces and, in 1986, performances began when Jack Palance”™s daughter Brooke and actor Michael Wilding opened in “Bedroom Farce.”

Other ArtsWestchester awards recipients were the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Pocantico Center Presenting Series; LaRuth Gray; Deborah and Alan Simon; Will Crutchfield; The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College; Play Group Theatre; LifeTime Arts; and photographer Ocean Morisset.