I reviewed PASTA!, the outstanding puppet musical from Brooklyn kindie duo The Pop Ups, earlier this year after seeing a performance during one of their NYC runs. It’s outlandish, hilarious, impressive and pretty much every other positive adjective one can sling. Now, it’s out West! That’s right, Jacob, Justin, their […]
With costumes and performances as vibrant as the most fanciful of iPad applications, the Arden Theatre’s world premiere production of The Flea and the Professor is the kind of entertainment most capable of forcing young children to lift their sagging heads up out of their laps while also filling their […]
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 […]
It took half a decade. Bill Harley’s sleepytime story masterpiece Town Around the Bend has been the Bear’s ‘lullaby’ album of choice since toddlehood. Every single night of her life, she’d fall asleep hearing about Bucket of Beans & Clarise, Picklopolis and laughs leaking out through your belly button (yeah, […]
My interest in Dr. Seuss ebbs and flows and, by proximity, so does my children’s. But just as it was in September 2010 when we four frolicked in Seuss World at Universal Studios Florida, our family’s current answer to “would you / could you” is a resounding YES! It started […]
Half rock show, half puppet show, half off-Broadway musical. PASTA! A Pops Ups Puppet Musical is WAY more than the sum of it’s outrageously fun parts. OWTK caught the end of PASTA’s last run at the Soho Playhouse, in late-December ’10. What we witnessed was quite possibly the greatest live […]
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 […]
Have your credit card ready (you’d have already called to have your limit increased), because dates have been set for Kids Night on Broadway 2011! From Sunday February 6th thru Thursday February 10th each full-paying adult can get a child ages 6-18 in for free. Lest you think this offer […]
