W H A T: Compliment W H O: Melissa, the brains behind Compliment. THE B A C K S T O R Y: Hi! My name is Melissa and I’m the Founder and Creative Director of Compliment. I’m so glad you’re here. If you know me, you know I love sharing stories. In fact, my first passion is writing,…
Bookshop Finds: Albertine
Albertine, the renowned French reading room and bookshop in New York that opened in September 2014, has expanded its high quality literary offerings with a selection of nearly 28,000 French language ebooks now available on its website, Albertine.com. Eighty-eight French publishers, including some of France’s most respected publishing houses such as Gallimard, Flammarion, Minuit and…
Panic! At The Disco & Music Choice Team Up to Give Students the Ultimate Chance To Create a Music Video for “Victorious”
Hot off the release of their first No. 1 and fifth studio album, Death of A Bachelor, (Fueled By Ramen/DCD2 Records), Panic! At The Disco is teaming up with Music Choice, the #1 music network, to encourage high school students to take part in the ultimate video challenge. Starting today, submissions are open for a…
A Write Teacher(s) Spotlight: This Wide Night
For me, the greatest theatre has always been those performances that stay with you after the curtain call is over, stories that stick to you long after you leave the theatre. For me, the greatest theatre is on that puts you outside of your own comfort zone. For me, the greatest theatre challenges…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Paris Key
The Paris Key, by Juliet Blackwell, is a delight. Truly, it’s a delight. The fancy bio is thus: As a girl, Genevieve Martin spent the happiest summer of her life in Paris, learning the delicate art of locksmithing at her uncle’s side. But since then, living back in the States, she has become more private,…
SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity
More than 100 people filled the art gallery at ArtsWestchester in White Plains on March 13th to get up close and personal with a new spring exhibition, SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity, which provides a series of works that speak volumes on two hot topics today – female identity and feminism. In addition to the visual exhibition,…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Fuller House
When I was in fifth grade I wrote a letter to the creators of Full House…BEGGING them not to take it off the air. I have no idea what happened to that letter, but oh goodness it broke my heart to have that show leave my life… TWENTY YEARS LATER MY LETTER WAS ANSWERED. Fuller…
DUETS with The Write Teacher(s) Volume 3
DUETS with The Write Teacher(s) is just ONE MONTH from today! In this third volume, a smaller group of Broadway hopefuls will be singing duets with the showbiz professionals who have inspired them in their own careers. Conceived, produced, and directed by Megan Minutillo, with music direction by Ben Krauss, this is going to be one…
Things Megan Loves: A BroaderWay
We’re back with another installment of Things Megan Loves, creative products, organizations, and movements that contribute to a life well lived, loved, and learned. W H O: A BroaderWay W H A T: A BroaderWay Foundation (ABW) was created in 2010 by Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs…dedicated to offering girls from urban communities an outlet for…
COMING SOON: This Wide Night at Guild Hall
This Wide Night, a play by Chloe Moss, will be presented by Speck of Light Productions, at The John Drew Theatre of Guild Hall, East Hampton, from March 17 – March 26, 2016. Can a friendship forged in prison survive the wide black abyss of freedom? Upon her release from prison, Lorraine heads straight to Marie’s – her…