Life As a Millennial Stage Mom

Photo: Gillian Laub

My life as a stage mom, or at least a stage mom in training, began in the fall of 2022, when my then-7-year-old daughter, June, was mesmerized by a production of Into the Woods on Broadway. Or it might have been the summer before, when her cousin taught her the words to “Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton and they spent weeks singing the song everywhere we went: outdoors and indoors, walking down the street, in the back seat of cars, on a crowded train with headphones on.