Can you believe it’s March already?! Where does the time go. Here are some new tunes we’re listening to this month: Love Letter to Myself, by Ocean Pleasant Falling, by Anchor + Bell So Close, by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness Brooklyn, You’re Killing Me, by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness Lighthouse, by Secret Nation…
Write Teacher(s) Readers! I can’t believe it’s already March! My how time flies. Here’s what we’re putting on our bookshelf this month: small great things // by Jodi Picoult (AGAIN) A Fall of Marigolds // by Susan Meissner Die for You // Amy Fellner Domino Happy Reading! Let us know your thoughts by tagging your…
The Anthropologists return hot off a successful run of No Man’s Land to honor the the centennial of the 1917 Lower East Side food riots with a special Concert Reading of their original 2009 play Give Us Bread on Sunday, March 19 at 2PM at the University Settlement (184 Eldridge Street at the corner of…
Shaunice Alexander joins the cast of DUETS with thewriteteachers.com Volume 5! DUETS with The Write Teacher(s) returns to Feinstein’s/ 54 Below for Volume 5 on April 22, 2017. Conceived and produced by Megan Minutillo (in association with thewriteteachers.com), with music direction by Dan Mertzlufft, the evening will feature music from across the musical theatre canon,…
Write Readers, we’re about halfway there! The next film on the list is absolutely my favorite, and the one I’m rooting for to win the Academy Award for Best Picture: Lion. Lion is the true story about an Indian boy named Saroo who gets lost from home at the age of five, and it takes…
The next film on our list is as different as different could be, both within its genre and this category. And it’s a space movie, which all avid Write Readers know I actively avoid. (Please see the Gravity post for further explanation.) Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker, is a science fiction…
Dear Write Readers, Another year has passed! Another year older, perhaps another year wiser, and another Oscar season is upon us! How time flies! Let’s start our journey in the Wild West. The wild, new West, we could call it. Opening on wide open spaces and vast emptiness, “Closed” signs and motionless trains, this Texas…
Keep on keeping on, Write Readers. We’re trucking through our list. Let us discuss the Amazon original film, Manchester by the Sea. Manchester by the Sea was written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, and starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. The film was first premiered at Sundance, at which point it…
Ah yes, the City of Angels. In our next film, it has been confirmed that Hollywood is the most vapid place anyone has ever been, or will ever be again. I spent two hours in La La Land, and really couldn’t wait to get back. Here it is, folks, the darling of the Golden Globes…
Write Readers, let’s talk about a film that has gotten so much buzz you’d think it was guaranteed to win. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Hidden Figures. Hidden Figures is a film written by Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder, and based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. Directed by Melfi,…