Featured on Phindie.com “MACBETH (Philly Shakes): Blood should have blood” By Christopher Munden April 9, 2016 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) Complexities abound in MACBETH, Shakespeare’s tragedy about a warrior lord tempted by prophesies to seize and hold the Scottish throne. Perhaps it is the wealth of possible interpretations which makes the
Featured on PlayShakespeare.com “Blood and Thunder in the PST’s Macbeth” By Jennifer Kramer April 10, 2016 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. It also marks the 20th anniversary of the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, now beginning their season with Macbeth. One could easily expect some bombastic
Featured on PlayShakespeare.com “Youthful and Musical Twelfth Night at the PST” By Jennifer Kramer April 17, 2016 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) The “spirit of childhood” is not exactly the first association one makes with Twelfth Night, revolving as it does around more adult matters like courtship, grief, and dirty jokes. Yet
Featured in PA Theatre Guide “Theatre Review: ‘Macbeth’ at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre” By Lisa Ford April 10, 2016 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) Shakespeare’s Macbeth, directed by Carmen Khan, is a dark meditation about ambition, tyranny, revenge, murder, and the consequential inescapable nightmarish guilt created from crimes of blood. Set in
Featured in PA Theatre Guide “Theatre Review: ‘Twelfth Night’ at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre” By Kelly Mintzer April 18, 2016 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) Four hundred years ago, William Shakespeare unwittingly set the bones of Gary Marshall’s career, by establishing the standards every modern romantic comedy would strive to attain. Whether
Featured in Broad Street Review “A shrew not tamed, but understood” By Mark Cofta October 20, 2015 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) The Taming of the Shrew is an engaging, often entertaining play (produced locally three times just in 2015), but one that is also frequently misunderstood and reviled for its allegedly
Featured on Phindie.com “THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: A woman moved” By Christopher Munden October 20, 2015 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) If Romeo and Juliet can be seen as Shakespeare’s commentary on the inherent impracticality of naive young love, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW is his statement on the practical necessities of
Featured on D.C. Metro Theatre Arts “The Taming of the Shrew at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre” By Tim Dunleavy October 20, 2015 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) Nobody can seethe like Jenna Kuerzi. As Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Kuerzi reacts to every slight from her unwelcome suitor Petruchio with
Featured on PlayShakespeare.com “Shrewd Staging at the Philly Shakespeare Theatre” By Jennifer Kramer October 19, 2015 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) For their production of The Taming of the Shrew, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre addresses the elephant (or perhaps the elephant shrew) in the room immediately: their program notes begin with the question
Featured in The Inquirer “This ‘Shrew’ has a great cast, not enough direction” By Wendy Rosenfield October 22, 2015 (Photos by Kendall Whitehouse) Even under the most scrupulous care, The Taming of the Shrew presents problems for modern audiences, particularly if they include school groups who might be encountering the Bard for
