Category: General

Sterling: 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…

Planning for Sondheim — On Your Feet — With No Light

Jonathan Silver was the Producer for the Master Storyteller Award presented to Stephen Sondheim on June 1, 2015.  He is also a freelance actor, director, and voice-over artist whose work at…

Creating the Macbeth Fights

Teen Arden and the Cabaret of Duets

Eli Russell of Teen Arden gives audiences a peek behind the scenes of the Cabaret of Duets, an evening of cabaret which paired professional performers with members of Teen Arden….

What Is It Like To Be A Costume Designer?

A costume designer is the person who decides what the different people in the play will wear. Here is what Richard St Clair, the costume designer, >purchase thinks about being…

Beauty and the Beast Around the World

Beauty and the Beast is a very old story that has been told many times, >search in many different ways, and in many different places. Sometimes what the beast looks…

Great Characterizations

In this adaptation, six actors play over 40 characters to bring Dickens’ novel to life. That requires actors with broad range who are capable of making each character distinctive and…

Charles Dickens in the City of Brotherly Love

On an 18 degree January night in Philadelphia in 1868 people lined up on Chestnut Street before midnight, cure bringing tents and blankets, prepared to camp out in order to…

A Peek Backstage

by Sally Ollove, Arden Literary Manager NOTE: Best read after seeing La Bête. At the beginning of La Bête, Elomire and Bejart have left their troupe at dinner to discuss unwelcome dinner…

The Inside Jokes of ‘La Bête’

by Sally Ollove, Arden Literary Manager With its rhyming couplets, sale clever wordplay, door-slamming farce, boors and know-it-alls, David Hirson’s La Bête is a fabulous homage to the writing of…