Feb 3, 2019 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
All is wonderful in this play By Jessica Gregg | February 3, 2019 At an after-party for the premier of Everyman Theatre’s staging of “Everything Is Wonderful,” playwright Chelsea Marcantel mentioned that she had recently received a grant to write a musical from the...
Feb 3, 2019 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
Posted By: JV Torreson | February 03, 2019 L-R: Bruce Randolph Nelson, Alex Spieth, Deborah Hazlett, Hannah Kelly Photo by: ClintonBPhotography As Brené Brown puts it, “Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore...
Feb 2, 2019 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
By Karen Nitkin | published February 1, 2019 Could you forgive the man who killed your sons? Should you? Those are the searing questions at the heart of “Everything is Wonderful” at Everyman Theatre. With a stellar cast and a tight, fast-paced script by Chelsea...
Feb 2, 2019 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
photo credit: ClintonBPhotography Everything is Wonderful may not always be accurate but it’s a lovely thought. Everyman Theatre in Baltimore has brought this profound and intimate drama by Chelsea Marcantel to audiences until February 24, 2019. In a small town...
Jul 18, 2018 | Airness, Press, Reviews
by Peter Hall | July 18, 2018 THE BASICS: AIRNESS, a 2017 play set to rock music by Chelsea Marcantel presented by Chautauqua Theater Company, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody, runs through Sunday, July 29 at various times at the air-conditioned Bratton Theater,...
May 23, 2018 | Airness, Press, Reviews
By Mitchel Benson | Published May 23, 2018 Playwright Luigi Pirandello’s celebrated and controversial “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” written and first performed in 1921, was a drama within a drama and chock full of existential angst emanating from six...
May 16, 2018 | Airness, Press, Reviews
by Bev Sykes | Published May 16, 2018 How much, if anything, do you know about the art of the air guitar? You have probably seen someone pretending to play the guitar, without an instrument, but is it really air guitar? Chelsea Marcantel, the author of a play called...
Apr 5, 2018 | Airness, Articles, Press, Reviews
posted April 5, 2018 ATCA has named Chelsea Marcantel winner of the 2018 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award recognizing an emerging playwright. The award will be presented at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville on April 7. The Osborn Award cites...
Jul 24, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Johnna Leary | Published 7/24/17 A beautiful story of redemption and forgiveness within a family, Everything is Wonderful truly is a wonderful show at CATF this summer. While still handling a dark subject matter, the tone and eventual outcome of the show is much...
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...
