I have written a few times about bringing children to the theatre. It’s a valuable field trip: theatres feel different. They feel exotic. Even when they’re well-used and run down. But who creates theatre for children and how do you find it?
Not surprisingly, more and more professional companies are creating interesting, beautiful, and challenging works [...]
As promised in my last post, what follows is the result of goals above and beyond what a toddler can actually do:
My daughter was about 2 years and three months. Verbally precocious and experienced in theatre (both her parents are theatre professionals), I took her to a holiday musical revue performed by the local children’s [...]
I while back, I wrote some tips about taking your child to the theatre for the first time.
Luckily, I started out by following my own advice.
At about 20 months I took my daughter, Avi, to see a children’s play as performed by high school students, City Mouse and Country Mouse. About 40-minutes long, it was [...]