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Marcie Bramucci, a Delaware County native, will be the Hedgerow Theatre’s new executive artistic director beginning July 1.
The Rose Valley Museum at Thunderbird Lodge has never taken its eyes off the Wharton Esherick prize. The museum will be hosting a curated in-person and online auction October 25. It will feature Arts and Crafts antiques and fine art from the turn of the 20th century.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hedgerow Theatre Company’s Theatre School is now enrolling students from age 8 through high school for summer classes offering high-energy fun and high-caliber training in creating and performing theater art. Two summer sessions allow students to learn the fundamentals and the intricacies of storytelling through theater, then putting them into action with public performances at Hedgerow‘s facilities in Rose Valley.
