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Tag: Jennifer Summerfield

Features Theater

Home No More: Hedgerow’s last company member must leave Hedgerow House

Jessica Foley September 13, 2024 43 Comments

74-year-old Susie Wefel is leaving Hedgerow House after 45 years. It’s not a choice she made herself.

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Features Film Interviews Theater

Living in A DOLL’S HOUSE: An Ibsen adaption for these times

Christopher Munden March 19, 2021 No Comments

Wife and husband team Jennifer Summerfield and Kyle Cassidy are releasing their quarantine-themed adaptation of A Doll’s House to coincide with the one-year anniversary of Philly’s stay-at-home order,

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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

Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale (1921): Chosen by Committee Episode 3

Phindie Podcasts April 9, 2020 No Comments

This week, Josh, Christopher, and John largely disagree about Zona Gale’s Miss Lulu Bett, the winner in 1921. They talk dream casts, feminism, and the crisis of modernity!

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Features Theater

Watch OSCEOLA the Film: Stream a recent Philly theater production

Christopher Munden March 25, 2020 No Comments

Hella Fresh Theater’s production of Osceola lives on in these theaterless times thanks to photographer Kyle Cassidy and videographer Brian Siano, who adapted it for the screen.

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Jennifer Summerfield Medea
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MEDEA, A Woman in Crisis: Interview with Jennifer Summerfield

Henrik Eger October 25, 2018 1 Comment

Henrik Eger interviews the star of Hedgerow’s new production of a classical Greek tragedy.

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Reviews Theater

MARIE ANTOINETTE (Curio): You say you want a revolution?

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper March 3, 2018 No Comments

Danton, Marat, Robespierre, and their ilk have mostly been forgotten, while the guillotined Marie retains fame.

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Features Interviews Museums Theater

Frankenstein’s Author: Jennifer Summerfield on her new show MARY SHELLEY

Christopher Munden January 10, 2018 No Comments

This month, actor Summerfield showcases another side of her talents with MARY SHELLEY, a solo performance she created for rare book museum the Rosenbach.

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Features Theater

Philly Actors Who Are Better Than You (at acting) and Deserve to be Seen

John Rosenberg October 10, 2017 No Comments

Casting actors you don’t know is like getting a dog from the animal shelter. Shit is cool for a while but then they flip the fuck out and bite you or run away.

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Features Interviews Theater

Gaslighting Done Right: Interview with the cast of Hedgerow Theatre’s reinvented ANGEL STREET

Henrik Eger October 16, 2016 No Comments

Considering a trimmed, contemporized, and feminized version of a classic British drama

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A Room with a View: Jennifer Summerfield talks THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

Christopher Munden July 8, 2016 No Comments

Jennifer tells us how and why she staged this haunting tale of one woman’s mental collapse.

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Features Music Podcasts

Philly’s Kinda Cool Episode 3: Interviews, theater picks, local music, and WEEN

Christopher Munden July 7, 2016 No Comments

Phindie editor Christopher Munden gives his weekend performing arts picks: BalletX’s Summer Series, Jennifer Summerfield’s The Yellow Wallpaper, and Greenfield Collective’s Bad Hamlet with Brews. And more!

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Reviews Theater

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER (Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion): 60-second review

Owen Hamill April 16, 2016 2 Comments

Suffering from a “temporary nervous depression,” a woman is locked away in a large house by her husband, with only the wallpaper to keep her company.

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Reviews Theater

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (People’s Light): An epic production of an Austen classic

Debra Miller February 16, 2016 2 Comments

A brilliant new stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s romantic comedy of manners captures the satiric wit and sociological insight of the 19th-century classic.

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Features Theater

Arming GABLER: Prop designer Paul Kuhn talks about his work on HEDDA GABLER

Kyle Cassidy November 25, 2015 No Comments

Paul Kuhn is perhaps the finest designer in Philadelphia’s independent theater. He tells Phindie about his prop design for a site-specific production of Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER.

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Reviews Theater

DRACULA (Hedgerow): Raising the stakes

Lisa Panzer October 27, 2015 No Comments

This not your usual resurrection of the Dracula story of seducing young women to join him in the realm of the undead.

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Features Interviews Theater

HEDDA Gets Styled to Rock: Interview with designer Autumn Kietponglert

Christopher Munden October 4, 2015 No Comments

TV-famous fashion designer Autumn Kietponglert created a gorgeous mourning dress for an upcoming production of HEDDA GABLER.

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Reviews Theater

DON QUIXOTE (Hedgerow): Cervantes’ knight errant rides anew

Lisa Panzer May 13, 2015 No Comments

The fanciful adventures of knight errant Don Quixote and loyal his sidekick Sancho Panza are refreshingly revived.

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The Powel House
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The Powel House: Utilizing Historic PhilaLandmarks as venues for the arts

Debra Miller March 1, 2015 No Comments

Celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2015, the Powel House is hosting an array of special events in the fine and performing arts throughout the year.

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Interviews Theater

Intergenerational Theater, part 2: Penelope Reed on working with a young director in ON THE VERGE (Hedgerow)

Henrik Eger February 2, 2015 No Comments

In this two-part series, Henrik Eger talks to Penelope Reed and Kittson O’Neill about their intergenerational collaboration in Hedgerow Theatre’s ON THE VERGE.

View More Intergenerational Theater, part 2: Penelope Reed on working with a young director in ON THE VERGE (Hedgerow)

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