How to Turn a Soda Bottle into a Landscape
By Bryant Edwards Sometimes sets can be simple, other times we have to create an imaginative fairytale landscape out of recycled materials. But where do these ideas come from? Here’s…
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Why do kids love The Stinky Cheese Man? A teacher’s perspective
By: Jacqueline Matusow, Teacher-Librarian, Media Elementary School I have lots in common with Jon Scieszka (rhymes with Fresca), author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. He loves…
Read MoreFrom Page to Stage: How We Design a Show
The process begins months in advance; we started working in November for The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, >help which happens in April, and in January for The Secret…
Read MoreSterling: From Sketch to Stage
By: Alison Roberts, Arden Costume Supervisor/Costume Designer for Two Trains Running Last April, >find when the Arden announced it was producing Two Trains Running, I was immediately interested. I…
Read MoreThe Arden Is…
The Arden is more than just a theatre. Over the next four months, prostate we’ll be sharing with you more of the work that we do, onstage, >recipe in the…
Read MoreImprov as Professional Development for Teachers
On an unseasonably warm and rainy late Wednesday afternoon in early February a group of timid yet very excited and curious Philadelphia public school teachers arrived at the Arden’s Hamilton…
Read MoreNavigating the Masculine World of 1959
Emilie Krause writes on the female perspective in Funnyman I fall in love with my characters. I can’t help it. It’s what happens when you spend hours obsessing over someone. I…
Read MoreWhat’s Equivocation about?
It’s London, 1606. William Shakespeare (in the play spelled Shagspeare, or Shag) has just been made an offer he can’t refuse: King James I wants him to write a play…
Read MoreQuestions For Shakespeare
Bill Cain spent months researching and writing Equivocation, a play that imagines a crisis in Shakespeare’s creative and personal life. He’s spent more time revising the script for production. Here…
Read MoreThe Tension Between
By Dramaturg Jessica Bedford In an interview with New York magazine, playwright Bill Cain discussed his favorite example of equivocation. It comes from Miep Gies who told the Nazis, treat…
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