Top Fun at the Big Top: Show Review by Jo Mispel
October 29th, 2015
Taking early leave of a Halloween gathering, my Luke Skywalker five year old son, baby sister and I headed excitedly to our first Big Apple Circus. With distant memories of my own childhood, I was looking forward to my son experiencing the immediacy of a classic circus show, but without ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: Clever Little Lies: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
October 24th, 2015
After a grueling game of tennis between father and son, Billy weepily confesses to his elderly dad, Bill Sr., that he is having an affair with Jasmine, a 23 year old trainer at his gym, and that he yearns to whisk her off to Hawaii and have some wicked sex ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: The Inn at Lake Devine: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
October 15th, 2015
[caption id="attachment_22015" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo credit: Maeghan Donohue[/caption] Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions (Jake Lipman, producing artistic director) is presenting the world premiere adaptation of the popular novel, The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman. And, if you're a fan of the book, you will be heartened to know this ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: Robin Hood: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
October 5th, 2015
The Seattle Children’s Theatre’s Robin Hood opened the 20th Anniversary season of The New Victory Theater, and it got the season off to a high energy and highly entertaining jumpstart....literally. Written by Greg Banks (Tir Na N’og, New Vic 2000) and directed by Allison Narver, the versatile cast of four convincingly ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: Hamlet in Bed: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
September 29th, 2015
[caption id="attachment_21975" align="alignleft" width="300"] photo credit: Tristan Fuge[/caption] “An actor and an actress perform a play. The actor and the actress may or may not be mother and son, and they may or may not know it. You know the play, the play is Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Yes, ‘that’ mother and son.” ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: Daddy Long Legs: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
September 29th, 2015
Starring Megan McGinnis (Broadway’s Les Misérables, Side Show, Little Women) and Paul Alexander Nolan (Broadway’s Once, Jesus Christ Superstar, Doctor Zhivago) and based on the 1912 novel by Jean Webster, DADDY LONG LEGS features music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon (Sense and Sensibility), book by Tony ...
MOM THEATRE BLOGGER: MISS SAIGON: London Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
September 19th, 2015
MISS SAIGON tells the heart wrenching,tender tragic tale of young bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with a American GI named Chris - but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. Each makes touch choices that ultimately dictates their fate and future relationship. In ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: Laugh It Up, Stare It Down: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
September 18th, 2015
[caption id="attachment_21911" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Richard Termine[/caption] Laugh It Up, Stare It Down, a new play written by Alan Hruska and directed by Chris Eigeman, is premiering at The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street). The cast features Jayce Bartok (Made In Poland, The My House Play), Katya Campbell (Broadway: Disgraced, ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: PERMISSION: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
June 9th, 2015
Playwright Robert Askins has two shows in NYC right now, and while it's hard to top the impact of HAND TO GOD, Permission holds its comedic own with an appealing cast and a quirky twist on couplehood, the pursuit of marital intimacy and Catholicism.Askins is adept at pushing the religious ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: The Spoils: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
June 3rd, 2015
The Spoils, written by actor Jesse Eisenberg (the Social Network, etc.) gets a resounding A++ for the most graphically gross (not a spoiler alert...consider it a warning) -- luckily not reenacted -- description of an unsanitary, nightmarish dream -- though for Ben -- the main character -- it was a ...
