We’ll be lighting the menorah on Wednesday night while leftover cranberry sauce still jiggles in the back of the fridge. Even the procrastinators have an excuse this year (not like Christmas which is always the 25th, I mean come on it’s not like you didn’t see it coming!) So for all of you who have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’s theater’
The No Schlepping, No Shipping Gift Guide (With a Giveaway of Course)
Posted in life in nyc, technology, kids, parenting, theater, iphone apps, family, holidays, giveaway, Hanukkah, Christmas, tagged American Museum of Natural History, children's theater, Christmas, contest, gift giving, giveaway, hanukkah, Holidays, iphone apps, Meryl Streep, new york city, Velveteen Rabbit, Wildlife Conservation Society on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We The People: America Rocks! TheatreWorks USA Free Summer Children’s Theater in NYC
Posted in kids, life in nyc, parenting, review, theater, tagged america rocks!, children's theater, civics, democracy, free theater, government, nyc, politics, schoolhouse rock, theatreworks usa on July 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
On Sunday I took my girls to see We the People: America Rocks! TheatreWorks USA latest free summer production for kids. The story: The Four Founding Fathers, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Ben Franklin use rock ‘n roll to explain the American Democracy and how the government works. In the vein of Schoolhouse [...]
The Bittersweet Inevitability of Growing Up – A Weekend Spent with Peter Pan and Toy Story 3
Posted in kids, life in nyc, movies, parenting, theater, tagged childhood, children's theater, family movies, nostalgia, papermill playhouse, parenting, peter pan, raising kids, toy story 3 on July 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
My daughters finished 2nd grade and now at 8 years old they have declared themselves to be “tweens.” I personally thought the whole tween thing was for ages 10-12, the real prepubescent years with middle school and all those horrors. But no, Time Out Kids had an entire tween issue and right there on the [...]
Going Behind the Gold Curtain at the Metropolitan Opera House (and a chance to win tickets to Hansel and Gretel!)
Posted in life in nyc, tagged children's theater, family travel, giveaway, metropolitan opera, new york city, theater, tickets on December 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This past Tuesday my two daughters and I went to the Metropolitan Opera House Tree Lighting and then on a special backstage tour of the theater. Growing up in New York City some of my most vivid and cherished memories of New York theater are linked to that incredibly beautiful theater. I still remember the [...]
Not Really Rosie
Posted in nyc moms post, tagged atlantic theater company, Carole King, children's books, children's literature, children's theater, Maurice Sendak, Really Rosie on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend I took my daughters to the Atlantic Theater Company’s production of Really Rosie. It was one of those moments you look forward to as a mother, when you get to take your kids to something that you loved as a kid and watch them fall in love with it too. They’d listened [...]












