Jul 20, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Lauren LaRocca | Published 7/20/17 As is usual with Contemporary American Theater Festival productions, the play “Everything Is Wonderful” asks more questions than it answers. Can the grace of God, or the passage of time, heal all things? Is it possible to forgive...
Jul 16, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Jack L.B. Gohn | Published 7/16/17 Most religious communities are closed to some extent. Most religious communities preach benevolence toward fellow-humans. But the more closed a community is, the harder becomes for that community to live up to the benevolence it...
Jul 11, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Peter Marks | Published 7/11/17 SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — In the sedate hills of the West Virginia panhandle, a new play is placing an especially unsettling wake-up call. The ringing is measured but angry, composed and yet brutal — a sound that seeks to shake us...
Jul 7, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
By Shawn Anderson | Published 7/7/17 WASHINGTON — Broadway-quality actors. Cutting-edge American playwrights. Thought-provoking, original productions. We’re not talking about New York. We’re talking West Virginia. Every July, tiny Shepherdstown, tucked away in the...
Jul 7, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
by Andrew Temple – Chronicle staff, Shepherdstown Chronicle | Published 7/7/17 Imagine living in a world where all you have is your family, faith and your way of life. Now imagine all of those things being challenged in an instant. This scenario is the catalyst...
Jul 7, 2017 | Airness, Articles, Press
by Sara Havens | Published 7/7/17 When Poison frontman Bret Michaels told C.C. DeVille to pick up that guitar and talk to me in the 1987 hit song “Talk Dirty To Me,” kids everywhere — including myself — mimicked the 27-second guitar solo on a broomstick, with a...
Jul 2, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Interviews, Press
A NOTE: there are multiple grammatical errors, misspellings, made-up words, and ??? moments in this interview, but I have faithfully copied it here as it appeared in its original iteration. by CRYSTAL SCHELLE || crystal.schelle@herald-mail.com | Published 7/2/17...
Jul 2, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
Contemporary American Theater Festival expands 27th season to half-dozen plays by CRYSTAL SCHELLE || crystal.schelle@herald-mail.com | Published 7/2/17 SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — In a time when theater companies are dealing with slashing of funding, and in some cases...
Jun 30, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
By Lisa Troshinsky | Published 6/30/17 “Make America Think Again” is the compelling goal of the 2017 Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) in Shepherdstown, W.Va., according to festival trustee Sharon J. Anderson. At a time when Americans are bitterly divided...
Jun 17, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Interviews, Press
Researched, interviewed and edited by Sharon J. Anderson, CATF Trustee/Professional Story Listener and Creative Director www.sharonjanderson.com | Published 6/17/17 CATF: Everything is Wonderful opens with an epigraph from Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel: “Time is...
