All tagged Hedgerow

Hedgerow Goes Virtual

Rose Valley’s Hedgerow has an advantage during COVID-19 that most theaters don’t: the company lives together. “We can keep working actually next to each other,” Reed says. “As opposed to something on a Zoom call you’re going to splice together.” Reed and his company are taking advantage of that proximity to reinvent themselves — temporarily, anyway — as online storytellers.

A New Role for Hedgerow’s Penelope Reed

This article was written to coincide with the opening of “Gin Game” at the Hedgerow Theatre — an opening that has been indefinitely postponed because of the COVID-19 outbreak. However, the actors, Penelope Reed and Zoran Kovcic, are still rehearsing. Here is the story of their preparation.

Hedgerow Theatre to Auction Wharton Esherick Furniture

Nearly 100 years ago, Wharton Esherick bartered furniture he designed and built as payment for his daughters’ acting lessons at Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley. The pieces have increased in value. Hedgerow has decided to sell Esherick’s three tables, eight hammer-handle chairs, and spiral staircase, using the proceeds to create an endowment and support building improvements. The items will be auctioned March 31 at Freeman’s in Philadelphia, with the most valuable table expected to sell for six figures.

Dracula: the Bloody Truth at Hedgerow

Next week, Hedgerow Theatre opens its production of Dracula, the Bloody Truth, a comic reassessment of the vampire legend told by novelist Bram Stoker. What if Stoker‘s Dracula was not fiction at all, but fact, asks playwright John Nicholson? The play explores the possibilities in a month-long run, with several previews preceding opening night, Friday, August 16, and continuing through September 15.

Private Lives Now Showing at Hedgerow

You think you have privacy concerns? They are as nothing compared to the tangled web woven by, with, and around the quartet that Noël Coward created in his comic masterpiece Private Lives, now in a breezy three week run at the Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley.