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Tag: Kittson O’Neill

Film Theater

Shakespeare in Clark Park revisits its theater for Every Everyman

Smalley Bogg October 30, 2020 No Comments

A movie about the socially distanced Pageant Wagon that toured West Philly this Fall.

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Features Interviews Theater

“Passionate iconoclast and maverick”: Interview with Robert Smythe, Ahab in Hedgerow’s MOBY-DICK

Henrik Eger March 29, 2019 1 Comment

Henrik Eger thought he knew MOBY-DICK until he saw Robert Smythe as Ahab.

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Sweat Philadelphia theater review
Reviews Theater

SWEAT (PTC): What’s the matter with Reading?

Christopher Munden October 19, 2018 No Comments

Why does SWEAT appeal to us, as aging urban middle-to-upper-to-upper-upper-class theatergoers? Do we hope to understand? Relate? Gawk? What do we applaud?

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Reviews Theater

COPENHAGEN (Lantern): Observable quantities

Kathryn Osenlund January 23, 2018 No Comments

I suspect that among the reasons COPENHAGEN has been so successful is that it invites us to believe that we are smarter than we actually are

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Features Theater

2017 Barrymore nominees: In their own words

Cameron Kelsall August 24, 2017 1 Comment

Phindie asked this year’s crop of Barrymore Award nominees about their experience of being nominated.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: CORIOLANUS (Shakespeare in Clark Park)

Chuck Schultz July 30, 2017 No Comments

The audience gather together on two adjacent hill sides and in the middle is a stretch of grass,

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Features Theater

Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 12, 2017 1 Comment

Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.

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Reviews Theater

INFORMED CONSENT (Lantern): A strange kind of ethics

William Brock January 21, 2017 No Comments

The play has a compelling point to make about the diversity of truth and mutual respect, but in the end, it’s difficult to take the argument seriously.

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Reviews Theater

GROUNDED (InterAct): The killing screens

Christopher Munden October 9, 2016 No Comments

GROUNDED is a tale for our times: war is most hellish when it resembles office life, reality is most profound rendered in pixels.

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Features Interviews Theater

Drone Warfare Hits Home: Kittson O’Neill on InterAct’s GROUNDED

Christopher Munden October 3, 2016 No Comments

Kittson O’Neill plays a fighter pilot and expectant mother living in a desert suburb in the U.S. Southwest, controlling weapons which kill people in a distant foreign desert.

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Reviews Theater

OR (Hedgerow): love, lust, loyalties and loads of laughter!

Lisa Panzer February 3, 2016 No Comments

Set in London, 1660, Liz Duffy Adams’s rollicking historical romp explores the remarkable life of Aphra Behn, a spy, poet, and England’s first professional female playwright.

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Reviews Theater

A KNEE THAT CAN BEND (Orbiter 3): Love and life in a hot country

Christopher Munden December 8, 2015 No Comments

In Africa as elsewhere, for queers as for everyone, life plays out messily in small tragedies and little loves.

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Features Theater

Is It Always About Sex? Director Kittson O’Neill on the sexual politics of THE ROVER

Kittson O'Neill November 7, 2015 No Comments

If you don’t think every play is about sex, you shouldn’t be making theater.

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Features Theater

Not of an Age: Remembering 10 years of Shakespeare in Clark Park

Christopher Munden July 15, 2015 1 Comment

Performers past and present share their thoughts and memories on a decade of Shakespeare in Clark Park.

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Reviews Theater

THE THREE CHRISTS OF MANHATTAN: What would a Christ for today be like?

Naomi Orwin June 7, 2015 No Comments

If Jesus were to appear today, what form would he take? A loving son of God, a Marxist activist, or a corporate exec who wants everyone to be rich?

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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.

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Interviews Theater

Intergenerational Theater, part 1: Kittson O’Neill talks about directing the veteran cast of ON THE VERGE (Hedgerow)

Henrik Eger February 2, 2015 1 Comment

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.

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Jennifer Summerfield, Maryruth Stine, Penelope Reed in ON THE VERGE at Hedgerow Theatre. (Photo credit: Ashley LaBonde of Wide Eyed Studios)
Reviews Theater

ON THE VERGE (Hedgerow): Self-discovery in the land of the unknown

Lauren Hartranft January 19, 2015 No Comments

There are so many layers to uncover in this work. It is a smart and clever piece; more performance art with humor and drama than a traditional comedy.

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Interviews Podcasts

Women ON THE VERGE: Kittson O’Neill and Jennifer Summerfield on Hedgerow’s wacky new comedy

Christopher Munden January 9, 2015 No Comments

Hedgerow fellow Brock Vickers sat down to talk to director Kittson O’Neill and actor Jennifer Summerfield about the theater’s January production.

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Bradley K. Wrenn as Ezra Chater and Nathan Foley as Captain Brice in Lantern Theater Company's production of ARCADIA. Photo by Mark Garvin.
Features Reviews Theater

“The Experiment”, conclusion: ARCADIA (Lantern)

Michael Fisher November 6, 2014 No Comments

Michael Fisher concludes his multi-part review experiment of ARCADIA at the Lantern Theater Company. Was it a success?

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