Shakespeare + Improvisation = Improv-ed Shakespeare Because Shakespeare should be Elementary. We are a group of homeschoolers (12 years and under) who prepared a one-act version of Shakespeare’s Tempest for the Texas Renaissance Festival in 2011. We placed first in the Elementary age range! Now we are preparing a production that readies kids and families [...]

There’s Always Something (More) To Learn About A City Things we’ve learned: You must include a day in your travels that involve sleeping late and no pre-planned adventures. If someone can lug a piano into the center of Marionplatz, then you should be able to lug home a couple of bags from the Viktualienmarkt. They [...]

Click on the picture above for a link to the Picasa Web Album. Things We’ve Learned: Food and lodging is very expensive in Switzerland, but gas is cheaper than in Germany or Austria. Switzerland is not part of the EU. If you’re traveling to Germany or Austria after Switzerland, no worries about having extra francs. [...]

Kids, Let’s Go See A Classic! A Parent’s Guide to the Season at the Classic Theatre of San Antonio This is the stuff of high school and college term papers. Do your kids a favor and let them see it on stage rather than just buying them the Cliff Notes. (Hey, I don’t knock Cliff [...]

A Parent’s Guide for the Season at the Sheldon Vexler Theatre (The Vex) in San Antonio Most of us want to introduce our children to live theatre. But we can’t seem to get beyond children’s theatre – If You Give a Moose A Muffin, anyone? Or musicals – “Annie, again?!” Those are fun and have [...]

How To Type: Great Online Resources for Kids and Keyboarding Skills Zia’s grandparents sent her an old laptop computer. She’s thrilled. However, I keep on urging her to email any number of friends or family members and she continues to resist me. Can you blame her? I wouldn’t want to write to people if I [...]

Do the Good Gals Ever Win? A Theatre Review by Andee Kinzy Let’s face it: there are more female actors than male actors. So why different groups keep on staging productions that involve huge casts of males is beyond me. We need more roles for women. Women like watching other women perform. Men just like [...]

Much Ado About the Classic Theatre of San Antonio A Theatre Review by Andee Kinzy It’s always ironic when you realize that the subject matter of the “classics” are just as poignant today as they were then. We have the Internet to showcase how malicious rumors and gossip can spread. The Elizabethans had Shakespeare to [...]

The Smile by Andee Kinzy Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was born smiling. She smiled at her parents. She smiled at her siblings. She smiled at family, friends, and even strangers. Her world was full of ups and downs, but she smiled through it all. She wasn’t the most popular [...]

Michael camped a lot when he was a kid. There were no cushy hotels with fresh sheets or cabins with a toilet and refrigerator for him. Nope. Just the great outdoors and the clothes on his back. Well, it wasn’t that bad. However, he hates camping. Once a year I have the perfect, fail-proof, no-excuses-allowed [...]