Mar 6, 2019 | Airness, Interviews, Press
by Julia Bashaw | March 6, 2019 Michelle Chin in Airness at The Phoenix Theatre Companyphoto by Reg Madison Taking the risk to write about something that’s both unknown and slightly out of the ordinary can be either a big flop or a huge success. Thankfully for...
Jul 18, 2018 | Airness, Press, Reviews
by Peter Hall | July 18, 2018 THE BASICS: AIRNESS, a 2017 play set to rock music by Chelsea Marcantel presented by Chautauqua Theater Company, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody, runs through Sunday, July 29 at various times at the air-conditioned Bratton Theater,...
Jul 18, 2018 | Airness, Articles, Press
by Kevin C. Vestal | published July 18, 2018 Chelsea Marcantel does not hold a degree in primatology, but she said she sees her work as a playwright as akin to the way Jane Goodall’s research exposed the world to chimpanzee culture. “I like to describe myself as a...
Jul 13, 2018 | Airness, Articles, Press
by Kevin C. Vestal | Published July 13, 2018 Chautauqua Theater Company’s conservatory actors are used to playing make believe, but this weekend they will take their imitation to a new, rocking level. With one notable exception, the cast of Airness is entirely made up...
Jul 11, 2018 | Airness, Articles, Press
by Kevin C. Vestal | Published July 11, 2018 As Chautauqua celebrates “The Art of Play,” members of Chautauqua Theater Company are tuning their air guitars for Airness, which opens this weekend. To familiarize audiences with the fun and very real world of competitive...
May 23, 2018 | Airness, Press, Reviews
By Mitchel Benson | Published May 23, 2018 Playwright Luigi Pirandello’s celebrated and controversial “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” written and first performed in 1921, was a drama within a drama and chock full of existential angst emanating from six...
May 16, 2018 | Airness, Press, Reviews
by Bev Sykes | Published May 16, 2018 How much, if anything, do you know about the art of the air guitar? You have probably seen someone pretending to play the guitar, without an instrument, but is it really air guitar? Chelsea Marcantel, the author of a play called...
May 11, 2018 | Airness, Interviews, Press
Published on the B-Street Theatre Blog | May 11, 2018 Chelsea Marcantel is the award winning playwright of Airness. She is not an air guitarist. Nor does she come from an air guitar shredding family. However, through her own experiences, she found the world of air...
Apr 11, 2018 | Airness, Articles, Press
The prize recognizes her play ‘Book of Will’ and comes with $25,000. by American Theatre Editors | published April 11, 2018 LOUISVILLE, KY.: The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) presented two of its play prizes at Actors Theatre of Louisville‘s annual...
Apr 10, 2018 | Airness, Articles, Press
by Rick Pender | published April 10, 2018 Inclusion was big this year, with virtually all the plays representing refreshingly nontraditional perspectives. I travel to Louisville, Ky. annually to take the pulse of American theater at Actors Theatre, when it presents...
