WPCNR STAGE DOOR. By Downtown Johnny. January 26, 2007 UPDATED 1:17 PM: Westco Productions held a cozy llittle swank loft party at the posh Westchester Arts Council "Palace of the Arts" in White Plains funky downtown last night. The "Westies" were celebrating the opening of "The Little Theatre Company that Can"'s refurbished, spiffy rehearsal space, hosting a little get-together for the new tenants of their floor and their friends.
Susan Katz, Executive Director of Westco Productions, Inc., Bill Ryan, Chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators, and Janet Langsam, Executive Director of the Westchester Arts Council, cut the ribbon to formally open Westco's new rehearsal studio on the 4th floor of the Arts Exchange Building at 31 Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains at a reception on Thursday evening. Westco is the White Plains-based theater company now in its 27th season of providing family entertainment. Photo, Courtesy, Westco
Surveying Rehearsal Space Fit for a Diva, Janet Langsam, Ms. Katz, artist Marsha Miller and Bill Ryan observe the transformation that Ms. Langsam has given 31 Mamaroneck Ave.
Showing up were Westco's neighbors, the ubicquitous artist, Marsha Miller, the interior designer, Pamela Bunderman of Organized for Life Making Rooms, and Design Development, architects of the ongoing refurbishing of the Silverman Building on Mamaroneck Avenue, Mark Schulman, Meredith Thompson and design law barrister, Steve Lochner, and Chair of the Westchester County Board of Legislators, Bill Ryan, and the Queen of the Arts in Westchester, Janet Langsam.
Mark Schulman, left and Steve Lochner of Design Development, new neighbors and architects on the floor who are handling the Silverman Building retail renovation and work on the Trump Building in New Rochelle.
Guests Rehearsing "Opening Party" in the new Rehearsal Space and Doing Well Last Night
Now Here's a Place you can Really create in. Design Development's new offices on the Westco Floor a sample of the Arts Council Building "arts ambience" created by Ms. Langsam.
Your repawta of the stars and the shakas has to congratulate Ms. Langsam on an absolutely fab transformation of the her building, which has turned into a thriving home to the creative arts. The offices are clean, the rehearsal studio beats most Manhattan space because it's heated and clean. The "Palace of the Arts" at 31 Mamaroneck has come a long way under Ms. Langsam's hand. It's a real showbiz, artbiz, kind of place, and you expected to see Truman Capote or Andy Warhol drop by if they could make it -- if only it featured an "Art's Bar?"
