Penelope: Show Review by Debra Nussbaum Cohen
April 12th, 2022
[caption id="attachment_31856" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Photo by Carol Rosegg)[/caption] Women have created and written many things for which men received the public credit. The game Monopoly, for instance, contrary to the tale written on a paper long included with every new game, was created as a cautionary tale by Elizabeth Magie, a ...
Help: Show Review by Debra Nussbaum Cohen
March 30th, 2022
[caption id="attachment_31851" align="alignleft" width="300"] (© Kate Glicksberg Photography)[/caption] The title of a new play now being performed at The Shed in midtown Manhattan is “Help.” “Help” as a demand. A scream uttered by the narrator, a Black woman standing in for playwright, poet and essayist Claudia Rankine. “Help” is a challenging 90 minutes ...
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 ...
A Sign of the Times: Show Review by Jo Mispel
March 3rd, 2020
[caption id="attachment_29739" align="alignleft" width="300"] (photo by Russ Rowland)[/caption] Time. How does our relationship to it change our understanding of, and ability to process, loss? How do we find agency for meaningful action when collective forces seem to hold us in an overwhelmed inertia? Can a philosophizing ex Physics teacher, standing on ...
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 Amazing Max: Show Review by Alyson Treglia
December 30th, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29483" align="alignleft" width="178"] (photo credit: Carol Rosegg)[/caption] The Amazing Max is a one man performance starring Max Darwin and produced by Christine Cox. It is an interactive magical show for the whole family (recommended age 3 and up). Prior to the show, premium ticket holders can engage in the VIP Magic ...
ROCK OF AGES: Show Review by Dana Klosner
December 20th, 2019
As soon as I walked into the theater for Rock of Ages at New World Stages in Hell’s Kitchen, I was transported back to the Sunset Strip in 1980s Hollywood where I spent my 20s pursuing my LA dream of becoming a writer. The strip was a place for dreamers, ...
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 ...
