The Love Course: Show Review by Reva Solomon
January 3rd, 2021
[caption id="attachment_30563" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Playwright A.R. Gurney)[/caption] When asked to review this play (my first for MotherhoodLater.com), I had no idea it would connect me, and now you the reader, with a vibrant NY theatre company of a much forgotten genre - the one-act play. I attended virtually on Zoom, with a ...
Ticket Giveaway & Special Offer: EMOJILAND THE MUSICAL
February 14th, 2020
A New York Times Critics’ Pick! EMOJILAND: THE MUSICAL Starring a cast of Broadway Favorites including Lesli Margherita (Matilda), Lucas Steele (The Great Comet), Ann Harada (Cinderella), Josh Lamon (The Prom), George Abud (The Band’s Visit), Felicia Boswell (Motown), Jacob Dickey (Disney’s Aladdin), Max Crumm (Disaster!), Natalie Weiss (YouTube’s Breaking Down the Riffs) & More! Now thru March ...
SLAVA’S SNOWSHOW: Broadway Review by Hanna Singer
November 21st, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29377" align="alignleft" width="300"] (photo credit: Veronique Vial)[/caption] Your perception of clowns and mimes will change after seeing this show! I had the opportunity to take my daughter to the opening night of SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW on November 13th at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway. All I knew about it, was that ...
FEAR: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
November 6th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29334" align="alignleft" width="300"] Enrico Colantoni, Alexander Garfin, and Obi Abili (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel)[/caption] Testosterone and tempers fly amongst a plumber, college professor, and frightened 15 year old, who we meet in a rickety shed as they (almost literally) bat around the disturbing disappearance of a neighborhood eight year old ...
The Hope Hypothesis: Show Review by Jo Mispel
November 4th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29316" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Photo by Beowulf Sheenan)[/caption] As soon as one sits down and sees the dull, gray bureaucratic office space that is the stage set for The Voyage Theater Company’s new play The Hope Hypothesis, it is hard not to start preempting a story about the dehumanizing realities that ...
BEETLEJUICE on Broadway: Ticket Giveaway and Discount (from MotherhoodLater.com)
October 14th, 2019
"THE WHOLE WORLD LOVES BEETLEJUICE!" New York Post "A BIG, FANTASTICAL FUNHOUSE OF BURTONESQUE MAGIC!" People Magazine Bring your family to the show The New York Times calls "A JAW-DROPPING FUNHOUSE!" Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, this hilarious new musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she ...
STOMP: A MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA THAT’S HARD TO BEAT: Show Review by Jamie Levine
August 24th, 2016
STOMP opened at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City in 1994; I saw this invigorating stage show there for the first time in the late 1990’s as a single 20-something-year-old city-dweller. Therefore, it was quite a treat—as well as quite a different experience—to return to the Orpheum Theatre this ...
MOM THEATRE BLOGGER: AMERICAN PSYCHO: Broadway Musical Review by Robin Gorman Newman
May 18th, 2016
[caption id="attachment_23255" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Jeremy Daniel[/caption] Sex. Drugs. Rock 'n Roll. And, throw blood 'n guts into the mix, and there you have AMERICAN PSYCHO. But, it's much more.....in a glossy, gory, garish...ultimately good way. Slickly packaged and based on the bestselling cult novel by Brett Easton Ellis, later made into ...
MOM THEATRE BLOGGER: THE KING AND I: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
March 17th, 2016
Sweeping, sailing (literally) and simply stunning are just some of the words that come readily to mind for this revival production. From the grandeur of the opening scene as the imposing boat arrives in Siam, to the effective use of the open staging and processional entrance of the actors, Rodgers & ...
A Magical Night by Robin Gorman Newman
October 23rd, 2015
My son has always enjoyed magic, so when we learned of A Taste of Magic, through its dynamic and talented director Kent Axell, we jumped at the opportunity. Kent is a mentalist and magician, with a background in theater and the arts, and a deep interest in philosophy and the sciences. ...
