OWTK PHILLY LOCAL
on April 30, 2018 at 9:30 am ×
We’ve seen many a great all-ages play and musical at the Arden Theatre in Old City Philadelphia, with many a great actor [waves hi to Ben Dibble & Alex Keiper & Jeffrey Coon & Rachel Camp!] gracing the stage, but the Arden’s Snow White cast of two, Nastassja Whitman & […]
OWTK THEATER REVIEWS
on December 14, 2016 at 11:43 am ×
The truth is, you just don’t know. These are modern audiences, digital natives growing up in a 4K ultra high definition world of clicks, swipes and immediate immediacy. Will children comfortably sink into the weathered red velvet of Broadway theater seats and allow themselves to be transported back to the […]
OWTK PHILLY LOCAL
on December 9, 2016 at 12:52 pm ×
The first time my wife and I ventured into the swamp with Arnold Lobel’s Frog & Toad we had my niece with us. She was 6 years old, wide-eyed, and entranced by Ben Dibble’s Toad and Jeff Coon’s Frog. That niece of mine is wrapping up her first semester at […]
OWTK THEATER REVIEWS
on July 6, 2016 at 10:56 am ×
When audiences first sit down in their seats this month to watch Out Of This World, the newest circus from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, they will be greeted with about 12 minutes of serene quiet and the relative darkness of outer space. It’s a daring decision for a […]
OWTK PHILLY LOCAL
on May 31, 2016 at 4:53 pm ×
One of the best things that happens in Philadelphia for families every year is the Philadelphia International Children’s Festival at the Annenberg Center (on the campus of UPenn). For over 30 years this event of theater, music, circus arts and storytelling has been delighting local kids and lucky out of […]
OWTK PHILLY LOCAL
on April 12, 2016 at 8:48 am ×
As is customary once the curtain closes on most all children’s stage productions, the cast and crew of the Arden’s Stinky Cheese Man (their latest gem in the crown of Philadelphia’s family theater scene) made themselves available for questions from wide-eyed kiddos who maybe had just gotten their first ever […]
OWTK PHILLY LOCAL
on December 24, 2014 at 12:17 pm ×
Philadelphia area families can choose from a trio of theatrical treats in and around the city this holiday season. Here’s a rundown of what’s worth seeing on stage in Philly with your kids now and through the beginning of 2015. Murray the Elf and the Case of the Stolen Sleighbells […]
OWTK PHILLY LOCAL
on November 11, 2014 at 1:26 pm ×
I’ve written many glowing words on modern indie kid’s music over the past half decade but I’m still prone give the sub-sub-sub genre an occasional WWE top rope smack down too, because song cycles for young ears too often ignore one obvious fact of childhood: moodiness. The best all-ages kindie […]