Nov 20, 2020 | Press, Reviews, Uncategorized
With its latest show, the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has cornered the American market on long-running, agreeable online theater. Mike Ostroski, above right, and Paloma Nozicka in Chelsea Marcantel’s online play “Citizen Detective.” (via Geffen Playhouse) By...
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 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...
Nov 20, 2019 | Airness, Press, Reviews
Dani Stoller as the Cannibal Queen in “Airness,” a play about competitive air-guitar performances. (Cameron Whitman/Keegan Theatre) By Celia Wren | November 19, 2019 It’s a good thing invisible guitars don’t cost real money, or the Keegan Theatre would be racking up...
Nov 19, 2019 | Airness, Press, Reviews
November 19, 2019 | by John Bavoso Airness closes November 30, 2019 at Keegan Theatre. Details and tickets “The whole impetus of air guitar is world peace,” earnestly intones a grown man who goes by the name Golden Thunder right before he goes out on stage in a dingy...
Nov 13, 2019 | Airness, Press, Reviews
A show full of thrilling air guitar performances as feel-good as a concert by real rockstars. by John Stoltenberg | November 13, 2019 In the competitive national and international air guitar scene, contestants vie for championships and prizes by pretending to play (or...
Nov 12, 2019 | Airness, Press, Reviews
Billie Krishawn in “Airness” Cameron Whitman / The Keegan Theatre Ten minutes to show time, and Guns N’ Roses was blaring, welcoming the audience to the jungle—er, Keegan Theatre. Followed by Aerosmith. Toss in Def Leppard, some Mountain, and OK, this was clearly...
May 10, 2019 | Press, Reviews, Tiny Houses
(photo credit: Roger Mastroianni) Chelsea Marcantel’s world premiere play hones in on the social phenomenon of tiny houses — but it goes beyond that. by Rick Pender | May 10, 2019 There’s a kind of time warp going on with the Cincinnati Playhouse’s world premiere...
Apr 27, 2019 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
At WaterTower Theatre, Chelsea Marcantel’s Everything is Wonderful gets a beautifully acted and staged production. by Jill Sweeney | April 27, 2019 Seth Magill and Kelsey Milbourn(photo credit: Jason Anderson) “For Amish and Mennonites, the struggle to die to...
