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Author: Kathryn Osenlund

Kathryn Osenlund, Theater aficionado. Reviewer for Phindie.com. ATCA member (American Theater Critics Assn.) Professor Emeritus Communications and Theater, Holy Family University. Instructor Philadelphia Police Academy: Police role plays and public speaking. Visiting Lecturer Oxford University. Instructor in Warsaw, Poland. NEA Fellow: Arts Journalism. Barrymore Award Nominator. National Critics Institute, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Education: Villanova, PhD in Media; Temple University, MA in Theater; UArts, BFA in Film.
Quintessence Theatre Hamlet review
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Remembering Hamlets

Kathryn Osenlund March 28, 2020 9 Comments

Cooped up inside, with no theater in sight, I’m remembering Hamlets I’ve known.

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DESCRIBE THE NIGHT (Wilma): Put on your thinking caps

Kathryn Osenlund February 6, 2020 1 Comment

Put on your thinking cap if you’re thinking of going to see DESCRIBE THE NIGHT

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A Woman of No Importance Walnut review
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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): Dropping a stream of bon mots from the sofa

Kathryn Osenlund January 30, 2020 1 Comment

How wonderful that we have Oscar Wilde’s works and can go and see his plays

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THE SNOW QUEEN (Arden Children’s Theatre): Not a sugar-coated fairy tale

Kathryn Osenlund December 17, 2019 1 Comment

“In the realm of the unknown, kids and adults have pretty much the same needs: courage, resilience, protection.” 

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mccarter frankenstein review
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MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (Lookingglass Theatre Company at McCarter): Second review

Kathryn Osenlund October 27, 2019 No Comments

There’s ethereal magic to be found in this stripped and reconstituted Victorian Gothic piece

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THE MURDER AND BOOZE CABARET (Love Drunk Life) 2019 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 20, 2019 No Comments

Recreates the breezy cynicism of a 1920s speakeasy

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COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (IRC): 2019 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 19, 2019 No Comments

IRC widens the scope of what absurdism means in our absurd world

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RED LODGE, MONTANA (The Antidote): 2019 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 17, 2019 1 Comment

A bizarro fusion of indolence, violence, nudity, sex, and dance

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A MANAYUNK MYSTERY TOUR (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2019 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 15, 2019 No Comments

Shadowy figures lurk on the dark towpath under the Green Lane Bridge. That would be us.

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CONSTELLATIONS (Quantum Theater Group/Wings of Paper): 60-second review

Kathryn Osenlund August 14, 2019 2 Comments

This is a fine production and it’s exciting to have a new Northeast Philly theater company.

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Irving Berlin’s HOLIDAY INN (Surflight Theatre): 60-second review

Kathryn Osenlund June 13, 2019 No Comments

This HOLIDAY INN is very, very impressive for a regional seashore show, in fact it would be impressive anywhere,

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THE GODS OF COMEDY (McCarter Theatre): 60-second review

Kathryn Osenlund March 19, 2019 No Comments

A charming comedy buried under an avalanche of frenetic activity

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GEM OF THE OCEAN (Arden): A thing of beauty

Kathryn Osenlund March 12, 2019 No Comments

GEM OF THE OCEAN is about a lot of things, including race, mysticism, and murder.

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BOB: A LIFE IN FIVE ACTS (Azuka Theatre): Great things are done by a series of small things brought together

Kathryn Osenlund March 8, 2019 No Comments

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together —Vincent Van Gogh When Bob is born and immediately deserted in a White…

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betrayal lantern theater review
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Revisiting Pinter’s BETRAYAL: A commentary

Kathryn Osenlund January 22, 2019 No Comments

An attempt to detangle this nine-scene play that’s designed to move backwards

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BONNIE AND CLYDE (11th Hour Theatre Company): Crime spree sung right off the page!

Kathryn Osenlund January 8, 2019 1 Comment

A new musical reintroduces the famous crime duo.

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COMPLETENESS (Theatre Exile): Algorithms and geek romance

Kathryn Osenlund December 9, 2018 No Comments

Seduction by examples of computational intractability

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KING KONG (Broadway Theatre): Going ape on Broadway

Kathryn Osenlund November 11, 2018 No Comments

We like our fantasies to be readily identifiable as such and to be realistic in their details.

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LONG TROUBLE (Svaha Theatre Collective): 2018 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 21, 2018 No Comments

There’s a lovely simplicity in Elise D’Avella’s staging of the tragic story.

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TRUE WEST (Subscension): 2018 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 20, 2018 No Comments

This little company has heft and promise. The Fringe has given them the opportunity to launch and they’ve certainly taken advantage of it.

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