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 16, 2018 | Articles, Press, Saint Joan
by BWW News Desk | Published July 16, 2018 Delaware Theatre Company celebrates 40 years of theatre making and announces their 2018/2019 season, including a Broadway-bound musical and two premieres. Executive Director Bud Martin says, “For 40 years, DTC has had...
Jul 13, 2018 | Articles, Interviews, Press, Tiny Houses
Listen to Chelsea’s 7/13/18 interview with Andrew Borba (Artistic Director of Chautauqua Theater company) and Matt “Airistotle” Burns (two-time reigning World Air Guitar Champion) as they discuss CTC’s production of AIRNESS, running July 14-29...
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...
Jun 20, 2018 | A White Girl's Guide to International Terrorism, Articles, Press
by BWW News Desk | Published June 20, 2018 San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) announced the three plays that will comprise its 2018-2019 Sandbox Series of world premieres: graveyard shift by Korde A. Tuttle, The...
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...
