Articles Tagged With: Alex & Olmsted

Happy Birthday, Mon Ami! an Alex&Olmsted production 📸 Ryan Maxwell Photography

Happy Birthday, Mon Ami with Alex and Olmsted

Reviews December 7, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

Bonjour! Parlez-vous francais? No? Oui? Peut-être un peu? No matter! You will have a glorious good time at Alex and Olmsted’s latest fabrication— Happy Birthday, Mon Ami playing now through December 8th 2024 at Baltimore Theatre Project. Charming, wholesome family fun put together by these majestic creators of puppets, this delightful experience, reminiscent of a proper Punch&Judy show on Brighton Beach with hints of panto and improv thrown right in the mix is a charming outing for the whole family this chilly weekend in December.

Alex & Olmsted's Hubba Hubba. ???? Ryan Maxwell Photography

Hubba Hubba at Baltimore Theatre Project

Reviews March 30, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

The sickness which no doctor can treat; the wound which can only be healed by the weapon which dealt the blow; Love. Movies, musicals, live-stage performances, television programs, radio dramas— you name it— have all attempted to conquer the subject, explore it or explain it, celebrate it, degrade it, deconstruct it— the path to love in our lives, particularly that interwove into our digestible media, is unending. But never has it felt so real, so relatable,

ATA (left- mobilized puppetry by Alex Vernon) and The Astronaut (right- Sarah Olmsted Thomas) in Marooned! ???? Glen Ricci

Marooned! A Space Comedy at Baltimore Theatre Project

Reviews April 29, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Space and time are illusions. So says the Great Cosmic Peanut.

You’ve never encountered the Great Cosmic Peanut? You mean— you’ve never crash-landed your interstellar navigational craft on an uncharted planet and are in desperate need of rescuing? You’ve never even been to space!? Well what are you waiting for? There’s an innovative new theatrical puppet experience, appropriate for all ages and audiences, appearing now at Baltimore Theatre Project— Alex & Olmsted’s Marooned!

Marooned! at Alex and Olmsted

Reviews May 3, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

*ccchk* Houston? *ccchk* Hello? *ccchk* Is there anybody out there?

Space.

The final frontier.

It is man’s destiny to go forth and explore. It is Alex
& Olmsted’s destiny to go forth and create extraordinary theatre with puppetry
and puppets being their cynosure into the next leg of their extraterrestrial
and theatrical experience. Marooned! A
Space Comedy is the latest offering from the Jim Henson Foundation Grant
Winning company.

Homebodies at Baltimore Theatre Project

Reviews April 28, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

What’s inside the box? More like what isn’t inside the box when it comes to Alex & Olmsted’s latest production: Homebodies. An original devised work that is gloriously magnificent in its own right, Homebodies explores the life of two individuals and their ordinary, everyday life. Inside their box. Devised and performed by Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas this quaintly quirky, highly expressive, physical exploration of movement and life has a little bit of something for everyone.

They’ve Got MOXIE! An Interview with Happenstance Theatre

Interviews June 22, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Those folks have Moxie! And we ain’t talking nerve tonic, kid, though boy oh boy do them Happenstance Theater folks got plenty of nerve! And gumption. And chutzpah! And, well— Moxie! A brand new theatrical collage arrives this summer for the ensemble-based performance company, and if you haven’t already guessed, it’s going by the title of Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville. The company has taken their much cherished vintage aesthetic and much celebrated performance nature and steered it in the Vaudevillian direction.