Sep 29, 2025 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
By John Geoffrion | September 29, 2025 The script’s climactic catharses evoke the intense emotional peaks found in the great 20th-century dramas of Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller. Michael McGovern (Jacob) and Susan Marie Rhea (Esther) in ‘Everything Is Wonderful.’...
Sep 19, 2025 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
Now on stage through October 5th, 2025. By: David Friscic | Sep. 18, 2025 The title of the devastating and psychologically complex play entitled Everything is Wonderful is considered to be code in the Amish way of life, but it is, concurrently, a bit of an ironic...
Aug 27, 2025 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
Performances run September 13-October 5 By: Stephi Wild | Aug. 27, 2025 The Keegan Theatre has announced the cast and team of its Season 29 opener, Chelsea Marcantel’s acclaimed play EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL, making its DC Premiere at Keegan September 13-October...
Aug 11, 2025 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
By | Zoe Winsky | August 11, 2025 Chelsea Marcantel’s gripping play offers a sobering look at our flawed yet beautiful humanity — what makes us good people? Can we choose to forgive? Everything Is Wonderful is a poignant, perceptive, and profound study of grief,...
Feb 27, 2020 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Joshua Herren | February 27, 2020 photo credit: Mark Garvin If you want a one-sentence review: Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of Chelsea Marcantel’s emotional and thought-provoking Everything is Wonderful is gorgeous. I could very easily stop...
Feb 24, 2020 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
Katie Kleiger plays Miri in the play “Everything is Wonderful”. It tells the story of an Amish family who deals with a tragic accident, the return of home of one of their daughters, and an outsider coming into their community. “The entrance of these two outsiders...
Feb 24, 2020 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
Set in Amish country, “Everything is Wonderful,” is a play that explores the struggle between keeping tradition and breaking into modern norms. NBC10’s Rosemary Connor’s sits down with two of the actors on stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre in Center City. Click...
Feb 21, 2020 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Cameron Kelsall | February 21, 2020 Mark Garvin In Everything Is Wonderful, a beguiling new play at Philadelphia Theatre Company through March 8, silence permeates. Sometimes it cuts through a scene with the force of a freshly sharpened blade. Elsewhere, it hangs...
Feb 21, 2020 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Wendy Rosenfield | February 21, 2020 It’s pure chance that Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of Chelsea Marcantel’s Everything Is Wonderful opened at roughly the same moment Elizabeth Warren eviscerated Michael Bloomberg in the latest Democratic debate. But...
Feb 19, 2020 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
by BWW News Desk | February 19, 2020 Philadelphia Theatre Company continues its 45th Anniversary season with a powerful drama about forgiveness set in Amish Country in Pennsylvania. PTC is thrilled to begin the year with the Philadelphia Premiere of The Kilroys List...
