In a NYT article about the lack of strong leading women roles on Broadway this year, producer Arielle Tepper Madover said she worried that the dearth of great female-centered work remains partly due to family responsibilities for women, who are reluctant to sacrifice nights and weekends to rehearsals or leave their children behind to produce [...]

So while I was putting together some costume pieces for tomorrow I was singing the song “Anatevka” to myself.  It’s from A Fiddler on the Roof .  I don’t know what that was about.  I have been in two different productions of “Fiddler”…  Nope, still don’t know what it could mean. We’ve got studio time [...]

Last NY Downtown Clown Revue Mar 15 Posted March 12, 2010 Note: After four successful years, the NY Downtown Clown Revue is closing after the Golden Nose Awards are announced in April. See the bottom of this post for an explanatory announcement. Posted as, and when, received. Join us for the LAST Clown Revue this [...]

Saturday 8/8/09   Last Day Up and awake and watching Discovery Network Shark Week.  The clock is ticking.  Today is our last day together in Seattle.  Tomorrow The Husband returns to work in New York City and My Kid and I continue on to two weeks with My Parents in Montana.  Last year the husband [...]

8/4/09   The highlight of the day fro My Kid and The Mother-In-Law was lunch at the Rainforest Cafe in Southcenter Mall which has been inexplicably renamed “Westfield”.  As an aspiring downtown Seattle creative person I never went to that mall.  Then when we got pregnant and had a baby we started to go there [...]

Sometimes the simple things take me so long, like logging onto the internet using the hotel’s wifi connection that by the time I have my Clownmommy dashboard on the screen I forgot what I had intended to write about. I don’t know how much of my “writing time” I wasted hitting buttons and guessing at [...]

ClownLab show- Feb 13, 14 (NY) Jef Johnson is a principal clown in the international touring company of Slava’s Snowshow. As Clown, he has also toured with Cirque du Soleil. Jef has more than 20 years of experience working in a wide range of physical styles. His approach is rooted in subjective expression, physical expression of [...]

    Last night out in cyberspace I came across video of the 1995 Annex Theatre production of The Yellow Kid.  Seeing it again… an amazing production–so ambitious in scope for a Seattle fringe theatre company– has me revisiting what is important in my life and how I respect or disrespect my own art. In [...]

Oh My Toe!…Why I Walk so Slow Inspired by The Yipiyuk by Shel Silverstein An interactive theatrical experiment for kids and their parents   Sunday, November 23rd & Saturday, November 29th at 12PM Saturday, December 6th at 12:30PM   The West End Theatre located in the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew 263 W 86th St. b/t Broadway and West [...]

Last year My Kid joined her elementary school’s robotics team.  They spent the year trying to solve alternative energy challenges using Lego’s. As a child, I too learned about renewable sources of alternative energy –off the back of a truck: This week, My Kid came home with a letter from her First LEGO League coach [...]