How Theatre Shaped My Life
How Theatre Shaped My Life People have asked me how theatre shaped my life. I hadn’t given it much thought until I considered my students growth through it. Theatre gets a bum rep. Don’t you think? People who haven’t studied it have a difficult time understanding its power. I remember seeing a football player interview […]
My Theatre Vocabulary List for the Classroom
My Theatre Vocabulary List for the Classroom Let’s talk about my theatre vocabulary list for the classroom. I apologize. It never occurred to me that teachers needed a list of vocabulary for their theatre classes. Theatre is such a major part of my life, I’d forgotten not everyone comes into teaching theatre classes as knowledgeable […]
Frequently Asked Questions the DramaMommaSpeaks List
Frequently Asked Questions the DramaMommaspeaks List Recently, I had a wonderful opportunity to chat with a first year teacher as he planned the rest of his school year. He began the year with the students all learning from home, then his school went to hybrid (which means half were at home and half were in […]
Has Covid Ended the Broadway Theater?
Has Covid Ended the Broadway Theater? Recently, my husband and I caught a wonderful performance on BroadwayHD of “Slava’s Snow Show.” It is quinessential circus theater and we nearly wept with joy while watching it.. Even though it was a filmed performance, it was the closest thing we’d gotten to live theater in nearly a […]
The Only NBC Television Special to See on December 10
The Only NBC Television Special to See on December 10 Everyone has shed light on many industries who are suffering during this pandemic and rightfully so. There is one group of people, however, no one has mentioned too much–those in the entertainment industry. In particular, I am speaking about those who work on Broadway. Thursday, […]
The Major Benefits For Students Attending Live Theatre
The Major Benefits for Students Attending Live Theatre Recently on CBS Sunday Morning, (one of my all time favorite television shows) they aired a piece about To Kill a Mockingbird now running on Broadway. Although I don’t agree with having adults portraying the children’s roles (metaphoric?), I’m thrilled about one particular thing: school kids are […]