Full disclosure – I’m partial to new musicals, with no known source material. There’s nothing quite like seeing a show come alive onstage that has, for years, just danced around in the head of the creator. For me, that’s a sort of modern day magic. For me, that’s the beauty of what it measns to…
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A Write Teacher(s) Review – SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical
Who live-in a pineapple under the sea? SpongBob SquarePants, of course. And GUESS WHAT? You can take a trip down under at The Palace Theatre on Broadway! Now, before you adults start rolling your eyes – hear me when I say that Spongbob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical is a magical, mystical, colorful masterpiece. From the dazzling…
A Write Teacher(s) Review – Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book
Picture it. You’ve had the worst day. You’re been pushed down by people. You’ve put your heart out there and gotten it broken. You’re craving connection. You’re craving love. You’re craving friendship. Because, let’s be real – life is so much sweeter and easier when you have someone there, in your corner. The world feels…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Perfect Little World
When Izzy found out she was pregnant, she thought she had a plan. She’ll marry the baby’s father, her high school art teacher, and they’ll live a happy life together. But things rarely go as planned, do they? Izzy finds herself alone and pregnant, working on her feet at a barbecue joint where she pulls…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Monday Morning Leadership
Dear Bookworms, Recently, I received a recommendation from a well-respected business leader to read the book Monday Morning Leadership. He recommended it as one that had impacted his own perspective significantly and so I took note. For readers, teachers, or just life-long learners, a good book is an invaluable tool, and if this one has…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: IN TRANSIT
In Transit is an upbeat, hopeful, a cappella musical set in the dirty depths of the NYC subway system. The story is synonymous with the transient nature of New Yorkers themselves; always on the move…always going somewhere…not always sure exactly where. As an audience, we are eavesdroppers, watchers, voyeurs to the conversations and activities that…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Giant Days
Dear Bookworms, This year I have decided to take up the Genre Challenge (see January’s article on Three Types of Reading Goals for 2017) and delve into some types of literature I don’t normally read. To begin, I decided to start with one glaring hole on my bookshelves: the graphic novel. Graphic novels have become…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Great Comet of 1812
GOODNESS. Let the record show – I had absolutely no intention of writing anything about Nastasha. Or Pierre. Or The Great Comet of 1812. I wasn’t there in a work capacity. I was just there to see the show. I was on a date with my boyfriend. It was pure leisure. But OH! What an evening….
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Great Typo Hunt
Dear Bookworms, This summer, I stumbled across a book called The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing The World, One Correction At A Time at a library book sale. As a writer, editor, and general lover of all things English, I was immediately drawn to it. Written by Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, The Great…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next #6)
Dear Bookworms, With this sixth installment of the Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde delves once again into the complexities of the BookWorld – and shakes up all the rules. To begin with, the novel opens immediately upon an account of the BookWorld’s transformation from an interstellar layout to a terrestrial one with free-floating landmasses. Although…