8 stories by "Jane Ridley"
Wearing their khaki adventurers' vests and light-up bracelets, a dozen kids raise their little fists in defiance. "You're horrible," one of the braver ones shouts at the bad guy known as Jou…
Making her debut at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater singing from the libretto of "La Traviata," chanteuse Charity Tillemann-Dick reached to the vocal stratosphere and gave her all to the last …
All kids love cartoons, but in Owen Suskind's case, they changed his life. Suskind, 25, has autism. Growing up in Washington, DC, he had difficulty talking and relating to others. Then his f…
In a touching scene from the Lincoln Center hit revival of "The King and I," little Princess Ying Yaowalak, played by 7-year-old Christie Kim, reads aloud a letter she has...
There’s a moment near the beginning of Radio City's "New York Spring Spectacular" that can be called a show-stopper: To the tune of "Singin' in the Rain," dance star Derek...
Just when you thought you'd gotten "Let It Go" out of your head, "Frozen" is back. Disney has released the first trailer for "Frozen Fever," a short film featuring the...
Scratchy nylon princess gown. Check! Headache-inducing plastic tiara. Check! My 6-year-old daughter, Daisy, obsessively planned her Queen Elsa outfit for Disney on Ice's "Frozen" for weeks. …
Slightly unnerved by his eccentric British hostess, Manhattan foodie Matt Roddan gingerly accepts one of her exotic-looking hors d'oeuvres.
"I call them Sylvie's Devilish Eggs," gushes Sylvi…