Matteo Scammell Archives

Reviews Theater

RENT (Arden): Revisiting a 90s La boheme

Kathryn Osenlund June 2, 2025 No Comments

Jonathan Larson, who wrote the book, lyrics, and music in 1994, described Rent as a Rock Opera

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HOLY GRAIL OF MEMPHIS (Arden): Lost tape blues

Kathryn Osenlund January 28, 2025 No Comments

Playwright Michael Hollinger’s Holy Grail of Memphis is in world premiere at the Arden Theatre Company. This is the 13th Hollinger play that the Arden has produced.

Reviews Theater

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Lantern): Twins, shipwreck, mistaken identity, romance gone awry

Kathryn Osenlund May 28, 2024 No Comments

One of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, his first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, is playing at the Lantern Theater Company until June 16. Twins, shipwreck, mistaken…

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ASSASSINS (Arden): A celebration of psychopaths

Kathryn Osenlund October 1, 2023 No Comments

The wall of the F. Otto Haas Stage features pictures of targets and X’s for murdered presidents. Starting with John Wilkes Booth’s killing of Abraham…

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ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (Walnut Street): A wackadoodle of a show

Toby Zinman April 11, 2023 No Comments

What a wackadoodle of a show! Part party, part pop musical, the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Jimmy Buffett’s hit is an enjoyable evening, but…

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EMPATHITRAX (PTC):What tools can… or, should you use to save a relationship?

Frank Schierloh February 18, 2023 No Comments

How would knowing exactly what another person is feeling change your relationship, for better or for worse?

Previews Theater

Winning a Pulitzer, Directing a Pulitzer-winner

Christopher Munden May 12, 2022 No Comments

2022 Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames directs the 2019 Pulitzer winner Fairview at the Wilma.

Podcasts Reviews Theater

Pulitzer Podcast Review: STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Arden

Phindie Podcasts February 3, 2022 No Comments

Chosen by Committee podcasters Josh Herren and Christopher Munden tear themselves from the Pulitzer bookcase to see a live Pulitzer-winning show.

Theater

Take a Sound Break with Lightning Rod Special’s New Audio Series

Smalley Bogg March 30, 2021 No Comments

Lightning Rod Special launches new series of FREE theatrical audio works,

Podcasts Theater

They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard (1925): Chosen by Committee Episode 7

Phindie Podcasts May 7, 2020 2 Comments

Join the crew as we talk about the 2020 Pulitzer picks, West Coast optimism, and the 1925 Pulitzer winner

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THE LAST MATCH (Lantern): Set points

Jessica Foley November 20, 2019 No Comments

Playwright Anna Ziegler drops us deep into an intricate game of high-stakes tennis

Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review

Yumna Tolaimate September 20, 2019 No Comments

THERE is not a place on Earth’s map. It is not a poem recital, nor is it a play.

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THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 15, 2019 No Comments

Visually arresting and aurally haunting, THERE makes rarefied language solid and visceral

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ROMEO AND JULIET (Wilma): Wherefore do Romeo and Juliet?

Christopher Munden January 22, 2019 1 Comment

What about Shakespeare do we want kids to like?

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?