I started this blog with one daughter, kept it up with the other, to spend time together doing something we enjoyed.
However, things change and people evolve. My daughters are older, busier, and not as interested in writing.
From now on this blog will be mostly mom with occasional contributions from my daughters and maybe even my husband.
Nothing else will change. We'll still focus on sharing fun places to go, fun things to do, and more, and we would  still love to hear your views too

Friday, January 17, 2025

Last Minute Ticket Giveaway: Win a Family Four Pack of Tickets to Momix - Alice at NJPAC!



Travel down the rabbit hole with Alice, a magical performance created by the dance company MOMIX. Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, dancers transform into Caterpillars, White Rabbits, Mad Hatters, the Queen of Hearts and other characters from the classic tale. With mind-bending acrobatics, mysterious illusions and whimsical surprises, anything can happen on this adventure!

For 40 years, MOMIX has wowed international audiences with work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty under the direction of Moses Pendleton. The company returns to NJPAC for the first time since its presentation of Best of MOMIX in 2019.

Win a family four-pack of tickets to MOMIX production of Alice at NJPAC's Prudential Hall Betty Wold Johnson Center located at 1 Center Street, Newark, NJ on Sunday, January 26 at 7:00 PM. Enter below:

Giveaway Open 1/17 - 1/20 Only 

Giveaway Open to Ages 18+ US 

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No transportation
No hotel

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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Theater Thursday - Upcoming Broadway Plays Winter/Spring 2025

Here is a look at some of the new plays coming to Broadway this Winter and Spring:

English

The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say? 


Todd Haimes Theatre (227 W. 42nd St.)

Now through 3/2

Opening Night 1/23


For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.roundabouttheatre.org/get-tickets/2024-2025/english?url=%2Fget-tickets%2F2024-2025%2Fenglish%2F


Purpose


For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black political power and familial duty. Spirited, hilarious and filled with intrigue, PURPOSE is an epic family drama from one of the country’s most celebrated voices.


Hayes Theatre (240 W. 44th St.)

2/25 - 7/6

Opening Night 3/17


For more information or to purchase tickets, visit purposeonbroadway.com.


The Picture of Dorian Gray


Sarah Snook of TV's Succession takes on 26 roles in this one actor version of the Oscar Wilde's classic story.


Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.)

3/10 - 6/15

Opening Night 3/27


For more information or to purchase tickets, visit doriangrayplay.com.



Goodnight and Good Luck

 

Based on the 2005 film of the same name and written by the same authors, the production will star George Clooney, in his Broadway debut, as Edward R. Murrow.


Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway)

3/12 - 4/3

Opening Night 6/15


For more information or to purchase tickets, visit goodnightgoodluckbroadway.com.



John Proctor is the Villain


At a high school in a rural town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible, but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. As they delve into the American classic, the students begin to question the play’s perspective and the validity of naming John Proctor the show’s hero. With deep wells of passion and biting humor, John Proctor is the Villain is a new comedy from a major new American voice, capturing a generation in mid-transformation, running on pop music, optimism, and fury, and discovering that their future is not bound by the past.


Booth Theatre (222 W. 45th St.)

3/20 - 6/22

Opening Night 4/14


or more information or to purchase tickets. visit johnproctoristhevillain.com




Stranger Things: The First Shadow


Before the world turned upside down. Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy…and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.

Marquis Theatre (210 W. 46th St.)
Beginning performances 3/28
Opening Night 4/22

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit broadway.strangerthingsonstage.com


Here are a couple of play revivals that will also be arriving on Broadway soon.

Othello

Spurned for promotion, Iago’s relentless quest for vengeance against Othello and his wife, Desdemona plunges them into a shocking web of deception and betrayal.

Stariring Denzel Washingtonom & Jake Gyllenhaal

Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 W. 47th St.)
3/24 -6/8
Opening Night 3/23

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit othellobway.com

Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross is set in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers. Whoever sells the most wins a car; whoever sells the least is out of a job – a ruthless environment where each character will do anything to come out on top. 

Palace Theatre (160 W. 47th St.)
3/10 - 3/31
Opening Night 3/31

And that's a look at the plays coming in the second half of the current Broadway season.

Tune in Sunday for this week's Sunday Scoop..

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Giveaway: Win a copy of The Righteous Few in the Winter Wishes Giveaway Hop!

 

Welcome to the Winter WIshes Giveaway Hop

hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews


In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day which is coming up on January 27 and as a reminder that one person can truly make a difference by standing up and doing what is right, we are giving away a copy of The Righteous Few by Marty Brounstein. This book is about both of those things. Frans and Miens Wijnakker were a Dutch couple who saved numerous lives during World War II by hiding  Jews in their home as well as by helping in countless other ways despite the risk to themselves and their family. The book is even more poignant due to the author's connection to the story. His wife was born while the Wijnakkers were hiding her family. For more about this book, see our previous post Tips for Tuesday - Books: The Righteous Few. Enter to win a cop below:

Giveaway Dates 1/16 - 1/31
Giveaway Open to Ages 18+ US

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