Sunday, January 3, 2021
Sunday, January 19, 2020
The actors worked together in “A Doll’s House Part 2” at the Public and continued to shine in Pittsburgh theaters throughout the year.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:07AMThursday, December 19, 2019
“Cambodian Rock Band” at City Theatre and a few Pittsburgh Public productions stood out in a year of moving and timely productions.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Composers Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond share the thoughts behind the score for the new show about a musical-hating man who wakes up... in a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMComposers Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond share the thoughts behind the songs for the new show about a musical-hating man who wakes up... in a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Reviews of ‘Where Did We Sit on the Bus’ at City Theatre and ‘In the Heights’ at Pittsburgh Musical Theater.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:59AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Quantum’s “Chatterton,” the Public’s “Hamlet” and Front Porch’s “Grey Gardens” top the PG critics’ picks for last year&r…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMFriday, December 21, 2018
It’s Christmastime on Downtown stages, while Pittsburgh honors a New Orleans company for completing the American Century Cycle.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:21PMThursday, December 13, 2018
The Pittsburgh actor this year became the only person in the world known to have performed in all 11 of August Wilson’s plays.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMSunday, October 7, 2018
Terry Barfoot of MusicWeb International reviews the release of The Cradle Will Rock and discusses the contributions the work has made to American music theatre. [Marc Blitzstein’s] artist…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 07:01AMMonday, July 16, 2018
The San Francisco Classical Voice reviews the first complete recording of The Cradle Will Rock. Review by Jason Victor Serinus. Merely 84 years after the nearly-aborted world premiere of Ma…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 08:06AMFriday, July 6, 2018
It’s out! The first complete recording of Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 Broadway opera, The Cradle Will Rock—with Blitzstein’s original orchestration. The 2-CD set recorded last summer a…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 08:19AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
It’s out! The first complete recording of Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 Broadway opera, The Cradle Will Rock—with Blitzstein’s original orchestration. The 2-CD set recorded last summer a…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 09:41AMFriday, March 23, 2018
www.theaterjones.com By Cathy Ritchie published Wednesday, March 14, 2018 As a total non-musician, I always find the blending of orchestra-created sounds in a concert to be somehow magical, …
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 03:20PMTuesday, January 2, 2018
Is the figure on the podium really a musician? What, exactly, constitutes the art of conducting? Leon Botstein reviews ‘Maestros and Their Music’ by John Mauceri. From the Wall Street J…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 06:32PMPittsburgh theater in 2017 gave us a lot to think about and to look forward to in 2018. As we announce the multitalented, multifaceted Monteze Freeland as the Post-Gazette’s 2017 Performer…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:00AMThe mighty railroad man John Henry, who races a steam drill until his heart bursts. The ambitious, duplicitous manager of “Dreamgirls.” An outrageous preacher and a flamboyant BFF in “…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:00AMThursday, December 21, 2017
In a tumultuous year, Pittsburgh theater frequently mirrored what was happening in the world beyond — but that’s always true. Theater shows us ourselves, positive, negative and deep…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
From Richard S. Ginell’s interview of John for San Francisco Classical Voice. John Mauceri has been a busy Renaissance man of the podium ever since the early 1970s when he became Leon…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 07:42AMMonday, January 23, 2017
The adaptation, approved by Disney Theatrical Productions, will have songs from the 1940 film, and is to open at the National Theater in December.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Choosing the Post-Gazette Performer of the Year is never easy, and in the award’s 33rd edition, it was especially challenging. In 2016, audiences saw a number of superb ensembles at Pittsb…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, December 23, 2016
The New Year on Pittsburgh stages kicks off with “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” -- one of the best plays of the decade -- arriving at the Benedum Center on Jan. 3.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:44AMSunday, December 4, 2016
Read John’s full text from his three part story The Met @ 50. Originally posted in three parts on HuffingtonPost.com collected here in it’s entirety. Download The Met @ 50 as a P…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 01:56PMThursday, December 1, 2016
The Theatre by the Lake in the northern Lake District has staged a Christmas play every year since it opened in 1999. This year it’s The Emperor and the Nightingale, adapted from a Hans Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMFriday, November 25, 2016
NEW YORK — Times Square was blanketed in Pittsburgh black and gold on Nov.16, when 130 Western Pennsylvanians showed their true colors and gathered for a photo that celebrates our region…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:22PMSaturday, November 19, 2016
The new house is no longer the new house. It is the Metropolitan Opera House and the old house is simply a glorious memory of my youth. And while we can rejoice in the achievement of the fif…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 11:51AMWith the vice president-elect attending the show, the cast used the opportunity to make a statement emphasizing the need for the new presidential administration to work on behalf of all Amer…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
I was not present for the opening of Philharmonic Hall in 1962—I was seventeen—but I did attend performances during its first season. (The Met performed there, it should be said, with th…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 08:38PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Fifty years ago, on September 16, 1966, 8:00 pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time, a brand new Metropolitan Opera House opened with the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra, a 3-act epic oper…
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 11:28PMSunday, August 14, 2016
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts production of Swan Lake. Presented as part of a Dance Fantasies program in 2012.
SOURCE: John Mauceri at 03:13PMProducer hailed for the groundbreaking television film The Naked Civil Servant, and The Long Good Friday, one of the finest British gangster moviesBarry Hanson, who has died aged 72, moved t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PM 
