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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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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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TWELFTH NIGHT (Wilma): Beach blanket Bard

Kathryn Osenlund June 12, 2023 1 Comment

There’s a lot of Twelfth Night going around in the Philadelphia area, all different. The Wilma conjures a fresh seaside setting. A dock moves forward.…

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Wilma): Foolery shines everywhere

Toby Zinman June 10, 2023 No Comments

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines every where.” Leaving Copernicus aside, the Fool’s wry remark is an apt description…

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RADIO GOLF (Arden): Hearts on one side, heads on the other

Kathryn Osenlund April 6, 2023 No Comments

A crippling honesty and family ties mark August Wilson’s Radio Golf, a play that flows with humor along with sharply incisive dialogue and a clever story line.

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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR (DTC): An Irish love story

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 17, 2020 No Comments

A love story in which the course of love would run smooth if it weren’t for stubbornness, misunderstanding, and Irish prudery

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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

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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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.

Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: THREE SISTERS TWO (EgoPo)

Chuck Schultz February 12, 2019 No Comments

Chuck Schultz gives his thoughts in words and sketch

Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: CHARLOTTE’S WEB (Arden Theatre)

Chuck Schultz January 25, 2019 No Comments

Looking at Arden Childrens Theater in words and sketch

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MR BURNS (Wilma): Darkness on the edge of Springfield

Christopher Munden November 2, 2018 No Comments

Civilization has collapsed but The Simpsons is still going.

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PASSING STRANGE (Wilma): Youth and rebellion

Thom Nickels March 2, 2018 No Comments

Youth is the time of our lives when the more adventurous among us follow French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s dictum that “everything we are taught is false.”