Show Review: Layer the Walls
November 17th, 2018
[caption id="attachment_27964" align="alignleft" width="300"] Layer The Walls[/caption] By Amy Wall Lerman Ages: 7+ If rats could live forever, oh the tales they would tell. And what tales they do tell in the production of Layer the Walls at the 14th Street YMCA on Manhattan’s east side. The show opens with two rats in a ...
Snow Day Times 2…Possibly 3 by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
February 5th, 2014
I am writing this blog on my iPad, while in the bath. You may gasp. I already washed my old iPhone last summer. At least if I drop this thing, I can fish it out in seconds and put it in a bag with the 200 silica gel packets I ...
MOM’S NIGHT OUT: ANTHEM Ayn Rand: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
October 11th, 2013
ANTHEM is the story of a young man, EQUALITY 7-2521, who is born into a future world that has banished all individuality. Not satisfied with a world lighted by candles, EQUALITY fosters his love of discovery in an abandoned subway, a relic of the past. In solitude, EQUALITY rediscovers electricity and ...
ROBIN’S SHOW REVIEW & DISCOUNT: HANDS ON A HARDBODY
March 22nd, 2013
For ten hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing but hope, humor and ambition, the fight to keep at least one hand on a brand-new truck in order to win it. ...
ROBIN’S SHOW REVIEW: The Good Mother
November 30th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_8932" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by Monique Carboni"][/caption]The New Group is presenting the first production of its 2012-2013 season, the world premiere of The Good Mother, a new play by Francine Volpe. Directed by Scott Elliott, the production features Mark Blum, Darren Goldstein, Gretchen Mol, Alfredo Narciso and Eric Nelsen. In ...
