Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre is not messing around this season. Often, the city’s finest venue for top-notch family theater will throw a curveball into the mix, a Flea and the Professor for example. But for the 2014/15 season, it is all fastballs, high and tight. Leading off the duo of children’s […]
The Arden Theatre’s current production of Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat (on stage through 6/29) is a surrealist dream in a frame hung low enough on the crooked wall allowing a child to stare directly into it with wide eyes and an even wider smile. With an opening […]
Based on the books by Louis Sachar, the Arden’s Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a trippy scholastic rabbit hole well worth falling into with your kids.
Spend this holiday season with Hermey, the Bumble, and Charlie in the Box…in person in Chicago!
I could very well launch into my coverage of The Arden’s Pinocchio the same way I kicked off my review of the Olde City theater’s production of Cinderella last year: excitement levels were not sky high. The obvious second sentence would then be: I am again an idiot for ever […]
We could have just as easily skipped this one. Disappointment in their last (Robin Hood) mixed with ambivalence (at best) about their current (Cinderella) had me ‘meh’ about the prospects for the ’12-’13 children’s season at The Arden. I get that they can’t all be Flea & The Professor and […]
The Act II Playhouse in Ambler is an entertainment destination I’ve never visited, or, frankly, heard of until last week. But the intimate, suburban theater is staging a unique holiday show for all-ages called Murray the Elf so its time maybe we all figure out how to get there. Here’s […]
Disney’s Newsies The Musical Original Cast Recording by Cooper McHatton Today is Alan Menken’s birthday. Who’s Alan Menken? Oh, he’s just the guy who made all those songs we all know and love from just about every big animated Disney film since I’ve been alive…Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Hercules, […]
