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,...
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...
Apr 5, 2018 | Airness, Articles, Press, Reviews
posted April 5, 2018 ATCA has named Chelsea Marcantel winner of the 2018 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award recognizing an emerging playwright. The award will be presented at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville on April 7. The Osborn Award cites...
Jul 24, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Johnna Leary | Published 7/24/17 A beautiful story of redemption and forgiveness within a family, Everything is Wonderful truly is a wonderful show at CATF this summer. While still handling a dark subject matter, the tone and eventual outcome of the show is much...
Jul 20, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Lauren LaRocca | Published 7/20/17 As is usual with Contemporary American Theater Festival productions, the play “Everything Is Wonderful” asks more questions than it answers. Can the grace of God, or the passage of time, heal all things? Is it possible to forgive...
Jul 16, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Jack L.B. Gohn | Published 7/16/17 Most religious communities are closed to some extent. Most religious communities preach benevolence toward fellow-humans. But the more closed a community is, the harder becomes for that community to live up to the benevolence it...
Jul 14, 2017 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
“The play that I felt was the festival’s strongest this summer.” “Really powerful material… takes the audience to a world that really we rarely ever see on stage.” — J. Wynn Rousuck, WYPR click here to listen to the...
Jul 11, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Peter Marks | Published 7/11/17 SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — In the sedate hills of the West Virginia panhandle, a new play is placing an especially unsettling wake-up call. The ringing is measured but angry, composed and yet brutal — a sound that seeks to shake us...
Jul 8, 2017 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Tim Treanor | Published 7/8/17 ——– Everything Is Wonderful closes July 30, 2017 Details and tickets ——– So tell me what’s better: living in the love, support, and strength of a community at the cost of your independence, or living a life that’s free and lonely?...
