Our second installment of The Writers’ Room, >salve our playwright residency program, began last week when playwright Rachel Bonds arrived in Philadelphia from Brooklyn. As we did last year with…
Read MoreBy Alison Roberts, pharm Costume Designer I had a wonderful time designing the costumes for the Arden Theatre Company’s production of A Raisin in the Sun. I had been looking…
Read MoreArden friends and artists gathered on March 13 to celebrate opening night of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play directed by Walter Dallas. Members of the Sylvan Society…
Read MoreIn 1925, Langston Hughes wrote his poem Harlem, which begins: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? …
Read MoreBy James Tarte One in the chair, One on his Feet, and Two in the Trash Stuck in a room surrounded by ash. The one in the chair He…
Read MoreBy Aron Morgan I was particularly impressed with the set that the Arden’s production team constructed so I decided to recreate a miniature version using several different types of material. This is a…
Read MoreBy Don Roberts Chess, and one of them makin a move and now himself lookin over me shoulder as if to see what I am scratching onto this paper but…
Read MoreBy Jeremy Lopez *Whistle Blows* “Clov!” *Whistle Blows* “CLOV!” Hamm receives no response from his once dedicated servant. Clov had become fed up with all of Hamm’s orders. He irritated…
Read MoreBy Sam Wyder Okay, so I heard some people in the audience grumbling about how Endgame wasn’t what they expected. To that I have to say, “This is Beckett. What…
Read MoreBy Christopher Wiener About the piece: My piece is hand thrown and hand made out of terracotta clay. The trashcan is the basis of the symbols that I wanted to…
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