Review: Familiar, a play by Danai Gurira at Playwrights Horizons
First of all, I hadn’t realized that the playwright was Danai Gurira, the same one who wrote Eclipsed which had such a successful run off broadway last year and has now made it to Broadway…
South Florida – Five Years Already?!
Wednesday 7 October 2015. Sitting here in my bedroom in South Florida in the late evening (just about past my bedtime…) and listening to the hard rain as it comes down the gutters and the side…
Review: The Martian: Mark Watney – Phone Home!
The Martian: Mark Watney – Phone Home! Several weeks ago when I picked up the best selling book, The Martian, I wasn’t sure whether I would take to it since space exploration and sci-fi has never…
29 Sept 2015 – Super General Assembly!
The super, blood, and harvest moon has come, been eclipsed and gone. And, coincidentally this year, so has the UN General Assembly, which was also supercharged this year. More so than I can remember in past…
The Autumnal Equinox
by Erica L. Moffett Today is the Autumnal Equinox. I only know about this because the Writer’s Almanac reported that “today marks the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, the first day of fall and…
Review: Everest: At the Top of the World & Yet…Still Left Wanting
Movie Review: Everest At the Top of the World & Yet…Still Left Wanting Just back from seeing the movie Everest (yes, back from the movie, not from climbing the mountain itself!), and I want so much to…
Weepy at the U.S. Open Finals…
I have just finished watching the 2015 U.S. Open Women’s Championship match and I am hunting around the apartment for tissues because I am just a little bit weepy. Weepy for the oldest first-time grand-slam…
Review: Bug Bite – Whatever Bit, Be Gone!
Review: Bug Bite – Whatever Bit, Be Gone! by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Monday 7/27/15) In the opening scene of Bug Bite, a woman, Liz Sipes (played by Lizabeth Sipes) arrives on…
Review: A Thousand Miles To Freedom – My Escape from North Korea
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Tuesday, July 21, 2015) In 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council announced a commission to “investigate…
Review: Reclaiming Vietnam – Not At All What You Would Think
Reclaiming Vietnam – Not At All What You Would Think by Erica L Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Monday, 7/13/15) The half-Asian, half-Caucasian woman who jauntily bounds out on stage—handbag and smile in hand—at the beginning…
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