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 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,...
May 22, 2025 | Airness, Press, Reviews
May 22, 2025 | Madyson Muresan Rock out with your fellow air guitarists at the CCC theater’s production of “Airness,” a play about a young girl finding herself throughout an air guitar competition to find her airness and win nationals. This spring college theater...
Apr 23, 2025 | Airness, Press, Reviews
by JOSUE VILLATORO, Staff Writer • Apr 23, 2025 photo credit: Jonathan Allender-Zivic This past weekend, TheatreUNI opened their final production of 2025 and have received a great deal of positive reception amongst students. Chelsea Marcantel’s “Airness” follows a...
Dec 16, 2024 | Airness, Press, Reviews
By Leila Einhorn | Dec 16, 2024 (L-R) Jordan Hull, Elisabeth Sells, Dan Muth and Austin Jackson in the Bas Bleu Theatre production of ‘Airness’ | Photo: Bill Cotton At Bas Bleu, a rockin’ production is a guaranteed good time Walking...
Mar 5, 2024 | Airness, Press, Reviews
by Derrick Philips | March 5, 2024 photo by Derrick Philips Illinois Theatre recently unveiled a production that, quite literally, plays the air: Airness by Chelsea Marcantel. Staged at Fat City Bar and Grill, a venue that, before this event, had been...
Jul 7, 2023 | Airness, Press, Reviews
Don’t miss this treat from Contemporary Theater Company! By: Christopher Verleger | Jul. 07, 2023 What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about air guitar? Now try to imagine a national championship with actual stage performances and musical...
Feb 6, 2023 | Airness, Press, Reviews
This is the last week to see this amazing show. (photo by Ross Zentner) by Scott Rawson | Feb. 06, 2023 I did not attend Foreword Theater’s Airness on Saturday with any intention to review the show. In fact, I said to my partner, “It will be nice to just...
Feb 3, 2023 | Airness, Press, Reviews
By Lindsay Christians | February 3, 2023 Listening to someone describe competitive air guitar is like being pitched on an obscure religion, or a pyramid scheme. Performative air guitar is, to its adherents, “the truest art form. The only pure art form left.” It prizes...
