Post Tagged with: "Arden Theatre Company"

When it debuted on Broadway in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN broke barriers as the first production on the Great White Way written by a black woman and employing a black director (Lloyd Richards). It is fitting that Walter Dallas, director of the Arden Theatre Company’s current [...]

ENDGAME has been given a new interpretation in the Arden Theatre Company’s current production, directed by Artistic Associate Director Edward Sobel. Purists will surely object to the liberties he takes with the play, while others, seeing it for the first time, or not as committed to the original script and [...]

The romantic fairy tale of an unfortunate young girl who becomes a Princess is given a new interpretation by playwright Charles Way in the Arden Theatre Company’s holiday production of CINDERELLA. Taking details from Charles Perrault’s popular version of 1697, mixing in darker aspects from the story’s 19th-century retelling by [...]

The Arden Theatre Company’s production of FREUD’S LAST SESSION is exemplary in every way, from its gripping dialogue, to its tour-de-force acting and direction, to its meticulous artistic design. Set against the backdrop of Britain’s entry into World War II in 1939, the imagined 80-minute meeting between two of the [...]

NEXT TO NORMAL is not your average upbeat feel-good musical, but it’s a rare musical that does make you feel, and empathize, and understand a little better the misery of bipolar disorder and its painful effects on a family–the collateral damage of this ravaging disease. Arden Theatre Company’s effective production [...]

When a new play is commissioned and developed over the course of many years, it is not surprising that a theater company and playwright would become attached to it—both emotionally and financially–perhaps to the point of losing their objectivity. Such may be the case with the Arden’s TULIPOMANIA: THE MUSICAL [...]

With Arden Theatre Company’s updated interpretation of the exploits of ROBIN HOOD, the legendary medieval outlaw has entered the 21st century. The sylvan setting of Sherwood Forest is here transformed into a green post-modern jungle gym, and the traditional Lincoln-green tunics and leggings of the eponymous hero and his band [...]

One of the beautiful things about live theatre is that it can discuss sensitive subjects in a non-threatening environment. Subjects that normally make people feel awkward or uncomfortable can be laid bare on the stage with an audience willing and eager to share in the experience. Such is the case [...]

Theater is a medium that, intrinsically, should appeal to children; it’s about make-believe, about putting on a costume and make-up, about telling a story by pretending to be someone you’re not, and then experiencing situations vicariously through that other persona. At its best it should also be an enriching experience, [...]

On the heels of his stellar performance this summer in Theatre Exile’s Fringe Festival hit THE ALIENS, Aubie Merrylees–one of the hottest young actors in the Philadelphia theater community–currently stars as Wilbur, the sensitive pig, in Arden Theatre Company’s holiday production of CHARLOTTE’S WEB. Equally adept at adult and children’s [...]

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY bookends with characters quoting T. S. Elliot’s “The Hollow Men.” “Life is very long,” begins Beverly Weston (David Howey), the alcoholic patriarch of an Oklahoma household, talking to the young American Indian woman (Elena Aroaz) he’s hired to take care of the family home and its drug-addicted [...]