A lot of parents spend their weekends running from game to game, practice to practice, event to event. We do not. This coming weekend will be the busiest one we’ve ever had (non-vacation division): Friday night: The Flea & the Professor kid’s musical theater at The Arden in Philly. Saturday […]
In my feeble attempts to pen a children’s book all my own, I’ve been told that dream sequences, flashbacks and other mind-bending trickeration have little place in media for pre-readers. Seems the minds of those tiny people cannot process that level of detail. I don’t deny these assertions. They’re probably […]
**ATTN: PHILLY-AREA READERS** There are many things I look forward to experiencing in early-September; not sweating through 2 t-shirts a day, as one example. But other pleasures also fall into place in the Fall. Things like the return of pro & college football, NCAA basketball, pumpkin picking, scaring little children, […]
The only thing bigger than the slightly mind altering, larger-than-life set were the laughs of the children in the crowd. The Arden Theatre’s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie soars beyond Laura Numeroff’s book of the same name. The kid on the page serves as a sort of prop […]
At it’s core, The Arden’s Peter Pan is an elaborate game of playing house. Just below the surface though, and something especially noticeable in their miraculous production of Douglas Irving’s adaption, are larger truths about what it means to be young, joyful and free – three things best experienced […]
