By Valeria Lamarra with Lorraine Treanor In 1944, Eleanor Estes wrote a children’s book called The Hundred Dresses. Set during the Great Depression, it is about a child who stands by and watches as others tease a classmate for being different. Wanda, a Polish immigrant, is taunted because she is poor and speaks with an […]
Review: Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Critic Tim Treanor takes on a reviewing partner, Valeria Lamarra Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a children’s play, adapted from a children’s novel by the great Salman Rushdie. I am a 55-year old lawyer. Should I be reviewing this play? I don’t think so. Children possess an imaginative faculty which is gone by […]
Huck Finn’s Story at Imagination Stage
By kids’ theatre reporter Valeria Lamarra with Tim Treanor Huck Finn’s Story, at the Imagination Stage, is a pretty good show. Not great, but pretty good. Huck Finn (Matthew McGloin) was a young boy who ran way from his mean pap (Michael John Casey) to nearby Jackson’s Island. There he met another runaway – Jim […]