Hello Friends, Zero Dark Thirty is yet another film I was against seeing, upon the premise that I lived through 9/11, and I didn’t want to relive the experience on the big screen. I was angry that the film was being made, feeling like somehow we were all being exploited, and I certainly wasn’t going…
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A Write Teacher(s) Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Hello Friends, Tonight, I sat in the audience and watched a masterpiece unfold on the stage in front of me. Edward Albee’s work, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, in fact, a masterpiece. The work originally opened on Broadway on October 13, 1962, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play that year. It…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: War Horse
Hello Beautiful People, In every person’s life, there is a time when they have to force themselves into experiences they wouldn’t normally choose to have. When I first saw the movie preview of War Horse, I declared that I would never, ever, ever see the film. Let me explain… I don’t watch war movies. I…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: LINCOLN
Hello Beautiful People, Abraham Lincoln… Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He was president during the Civil War. He was assassinated, shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theater. He was tall, and wore tall top hats. He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Most of…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Peter and the Starcatcher
Hello Friends, Recently, I had the pleasure of bringing a group of students to see Peter and the Starcatcher. If you haven’t seen it, run, don’t walk, to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre to catch this brilliant prequel to one of Disney’s most beloved stories, Peter Pan. I had heard about this show through the NYU…