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Tag: Jennifer Childs

Reviews Theater

POTUS (Arden): Brash and in your face

Kathryn Osenlund September 26, 2024 No Comments

Warning: These seven marvelous actors in the all female cast, are not your nice Aunt Sara. Wild and untamed, they’re women without borders. Stepping out…

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Reviews Theater

THE FLATLANDERS (1812 Productions): Couples theater can be couples therapy

Toby Zinman February 5, 2024 No Comments

Real-life married couple Scott Greer and Jennifer Childs play a fictitious couple in Bruce Graham’s newest play. 

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Reviews Theater

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (Arden): A witch’s cauldron of sometimes magic

Toby Zinman November 3, 2023 No Comments

Even the most hallowed document is no match for a teenage girl, as Heidi Schreck reveals in her play, What the Constitutions Means to Me.…

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Reviews Theater

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1812): Fall-off-your-chair hilarity

Toby Zinman May 6, 2023 No Comments

This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.

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Reviews Theater

BROADS (1812 Productions): A tip of the hat to the grand old dames of comedy

Toby Zinman February 3, 2023 No Comments

Take it from this old broad, Broads, 1812 Productions’ new show, is an entertaining 75 minutes—if you like funny songs and dirty jokes.

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Theater

LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (Walnut): Feeling nostalgic?

Toby Zinman January 21, 2023 No Comments

Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?

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Podcasts Theater

Reading Every Play That Won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Christopher Munden May 23, 2020 No Comments

A new podcast

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Podcasts Theater

WHY MARRY? by Jesse Lynch Williams (1918): Chosen by Committee Episode 1

Phindie Podcasts March 26, 2020 No Comments

Beginning a discussion of every play which won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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Features Theater

Philadelphia Theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 1: 2002–2003

Henrik Eger August 31, 2019 No Comments

Remembering Philadelphia theater history through the eyes of a venerable theater reviewer.

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Reviews Theater

HOPE AND GRAVITY (1812 Productions): “Even the lightest things come crashing back down to earth.”

Kathryn Osenlund May 6, 2018 4 Comments

There are many good comedies out there, but not many where the weight of tragedy crests and wanes beneath the laughter.

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Reviews Theater

I WILL NOT GO GENTLY (People’s Light): Third time’s a charm

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper April 1, 2018 No Comments

I’ve gone from a fan and admirer to an enthusiastic supporter of Jen Childs in I WILL NOT GO GENTLY.

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Reviews

THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS (1812 Productions): New year same targets

Thom Nickels December 31, 2017 3 Comments

Thom Nickels asks why the same people always get satirized.

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Reviews Theater

THE CAROLS (1812 Productions): Ghost of past holiday movies brought to comic life

Carolyn Wyman December 14, 2016 No Comments

A great entertainment present for Philly’s Christmas present.

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Reviews Theater

THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS: THE ELECTION SPECIAL (1812 Productions): Yuugely funny

Julie Zeglen October 25, 2016 No Comments

Ho boy, it’s been quite the election cycle. Thankfully, Philadelphia has 1812 Productions to ease the pain with its annual satirical show.

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Interviews Podcasts Theater

[podcast] Jen Childs on I WILL NOT GO GENTLY

Darnelle Radford for REP Radio May 6, 2016 No Comments

Today’s podcast features artistic director, writer, and performer Jen Childs. We talk about the latest 1812 offering, I Will Not Go Gently where a stellar team of creatives breathe life into the faded career of “Sierra Mist”.

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Reviews Theater

I WILL NOT GO GENTLY (1812): Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Emily Kluver May 1, 2016 No Comments

The production keeps audience members of all ages laughing with outrageous and suggestive songs by Jennifer Childs and Christopher Colucci.

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Features Interviews Music Theater

Not Going Gently: 1812 rocks with an album and a play

Christopher Munden April 27, 2016 1 Comment

Harriet Power sits on a stool at a lightly stocked semi-circle bar in the corner of a spacious music room a block from the Ninth…

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60-Second Review Reviews Theater

ON THE ROAD AGAIN (Act II): 60-second review

Lauren Hartranft January 25, 2016 No Comments

What better way to celebrate the cluster that is travel but with a charming show all about it in Ambler!

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Reviews Theater

THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS (1812): The tenth anniversary of an annual favorite

Debra Miller December 5, 2015 No Comments

This year’s installment of the annual politically-incorrect political comedy skewers the presidential candidates and brings some welcome laughs to a troubled week

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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

THE SHOPLIFTERS (1812 Productions): 2015 Fringe review 2

Nicole Forrester September 4, 2015 No Comments

An uproarious look into the reasons people steal, and why others chase them

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