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 ...
UP CLOSE Festival 2019: Review by Hannah Singer
January 8th, 2020
Sometimes I think I am younger than I am, after all, I write for Motherhood Later! (In my case it was later and later and later!) But I also forget I have a moody tween, and I never know if she will enjoy anything. But, when I was offered tickets ...
THE MIKADO: Show Review by Hannah Singer
December 31st, 2019
When my daughter was 4, she was glued to the tv where an opera was being shown. I was floored! I have been meaning to take her to an opera since then. Luckily now that she is a tween, I had the opportunity to do just that. And it did ...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, OY! HANUKKAH, MERRY KWANZAA: Show Review by Hannah Singer
December 31st, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29495" align="alignleft" width="300"] (L-R: Katarina Vizina and Valois Mickens. Photo by Jonathan Slaff)[/caption] This time of year always goes too fast for me, so I have been a bit of a Scrooge, thinking Bah Humbug. Then I was offered these tickets to a show I thought was for kids. So ...
The Giant Hoax: Show Review by Alyson Treglia
December 9th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29428" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Photo credit: Brian E. Long)[/caption] The Giant Hoax is a musical for ages 6 and up, set in 1869 based on the true (?) events of the prehistoric petrified Cardiff Giant, a young farm girl, Emily, and Stub, the owner of the Giant. The opening of the ...
ALL HALLOWS EVE: Show Review by Alyson Treglia
October 29th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29304" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Jennifer Barnhart as Witch in All Hallows Eve - photo by Richard Termine)[/caption] My husband and I have always had a love for Halloween even prior to having our two kids. We plotted our costumes months before, whether purchasing them as a couple costume, or buying supplies ...
The 31st Annual Festival of New Musicals by Robin Gorman Newman
October 26th, 2019
This was my first experience attending the Festival of New Musicals, and both as a theatre producer and musicals enthusiast, it was a thrill to have the opportunity to see new musicals in the works and to hear from creative teams. It takes a village to bring a show to ...
VILNA: Show Review by Rochelle Jewell Shapiro
April 2nd, 2019
Ira Fuchs must have been called by the voices of the dead to write his impassioned play, VILNA. In 1974, after college graduation, he wrote a few plays. One was put on at the YWHA on Eighth Avenue, the other at Playwright Horizons. Then he left the theater to become ...
A SIMPLE SPACE: Show Review by Lainie Gutterman
February 12th, 2019
My son Ian and I were lucky enough to recently see A SIMPLE SPACE at The New Victory Theater (209 West 42nd Street). Taken from the theatre's performance description..........Who needs circus rigging, sparkly costumes or even shoes when you've got each other? This talented, tight-knit troupe and their dynamic drummer saturate their ...
Up Close Festival: Show Review by Lainie Gutterman
December 25th, 2018
Marisol Rosa-Shapiro among the audience members in VELVEETA UNDERGROUND: A Pizza Rat's Quest to Save Cheesy Beet Poetry. Photo by Buatti-Ramos Photography. I am extremely picky when it comes to performances. When a last minute opportunity to review Up Close Festival at the New Ohio Theatre in the West Village (154 ...
