Parenting from the Wings: The Holding Room is the Hardest Part

www.broadwayworld.com: Audition holding rooms are filled with palpable stress and restrained energy waiting to explode. When it comes to children's auditions, it is also where caricatures come alive.

I'm not talking about the kids, although there have been moments-the tween who spoke of herself in the third person and the 9-year-old who stormed out of an audition yelling at her dad that the accompanist ruined her song and her father better go in there and demand she can sing again with a new accompanist now.

What You, Theatremaker, Can Learn from Theatre for the Very Young

HowlRound Theatre Commons: “Where’s the TV?” a five-year-old sitting on a chair with pretzeled legs asked. “There is no TV,” the mother answered, “this is a live show.”

That conversation happened next to me in early May during a production at the Alliance Theatre’s Toddler Takeover in Atlanta, Georgia—an annual festival of international performances designed for audiences aged zero to five and their guardians. The Alliance’s trailblazing commitment to theatre for the very young has been shepherded by their director of theatre for youth and families, Rosemary Newcott, who is retiring at the end of this season.

Baby Shark Live! Announces Fall 2019 Cross-Country Tour

www.ticketnews.com: “Baby Shark” has been stuck in the heads of kids and parents for months…and it’s not going away anytime soon. Baby Shark Live! tour dates have been revealed.

Working Like a Mother

HowlRound Theatre Commons: On a very cold night at the end of January, I attended an event called Moms + Moods: Opening the Conversation on Post-Partum Rage. And I wasn’t sure why I was there. Only that someone I knew and liked a lot had organized it and moments after reading her email invitation I immediately bought a ticket before checking if my husband was working that night. I didn't think of myself as someone full of rage. But then I rarely thought of myself in the fifteen months since our son was born.

I Will Never Leave You: Top 10 Plays & Musicals About Siblings

Breaking Character: On this year’s National Siblings Day, we must reflect on the valuable relationships we share with our siblings. They impact our lives in more ways than one, and learning from their triumphs and mistakes is something that we sometimes don’t remember to take the time to appreciate. We watch them grow as children and come into their own as adults, and seeing their development (as they see ours) is so important. It may be more often than not that we fight with our siblings (sometimes they can be more foes than friends), but no matter what, they are stuck with us forever.