NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario — This colorful confection of a town is worth visiting in any season, but especially during the long run of the Shaw Festival, this year extending to Nov.…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThere’s no apparent pattern to the second and final pair of New Works Festival programs, running through the weekend. Variety is its spice.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMStephen Flaherty, 55, a Dormont native best known as the composer of the Broadway musicals “Ragtime,” “Once on This Island” and “Seussical,” will be inducted into the Theater Hal…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:33PMRest assured, the most famous Shakespearean stage direction is fully honored: “Exit, pursued by a bear.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:49PMAs the adage goes, all happy families are the same, but unhappy families are unhappy in different ways. True or not, it does suggest the complexity and interest of “The Country House,” w…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWhere do you draw the line between ambition and folly? That must have given pause to Greggory Brandt, new artistic director of the Saint Vincent Summer Theatre, as he contemplated stagi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIn the program for “Sharon’s Grave,” PICT Classic Theatre prints “Epic,” a sonnet by Patrick Kavanagh that contrasts village tussles with history’s great events, and finds t…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSometimes, you just want silly. That’s certainly the aim, and the payoff, of “The Dance on Widow’s Row,” now finishing its run (only through Sunday) at the New Horizon Thea…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:21AMAmong candidates for a Tony Award for best musical, which carries the most economic clout, one of the favorites is “An American in Paris.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIf saints are (as they must partly be) those who help us see with fresh spiritual breadth or depth, then Bricolage’s latest peripatetic theater event, “Saints Tour,” is justly nam…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMNEW YORK – The lifeblood of Broadway is musicals, and they’re still pumping away — the old warhorses (“Phantom,” “Chicago”), the young warhorses (“Jersey Boys,”&#…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMBarebones in a black box in Braddock: Whatever that sounds like tripping off the tongue, it proves an auspicious debut.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMNEW YORK — Fortunately for Hilary Mantel, the Seymour family named their 16th century Wiltshire manor house Wulfhall, providing a juicy name for her historical novel about the ca…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWhatever the small, semi-pro Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre may be, it is hardly small or even semi-pro — not when it takes on a bear of a play like “Fences,” harvesting such a vi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTo start, the title of Samuel D. Hunter’s “The Whale” seems cruel, or at least painfully honest, because there he is, Charlie, 600-some pounds, beached helplessly on the sofa in his ap…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:03PMNEW YORK – Producer Rocco Landesman presented former New York Times critic Frank Rich with a meat cleaver. Designer John Lee Beatty complimented director Marshall W. Mason for having …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:56PMAmong Shakespeare’s half-dozen great tragedies, none tells a clearer, more streamlined story than “Othello.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:06PMIt’s just April, but 2015 has already been an august year – an August year, that is, as in August Wilson.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:07AMAnd in the main ring, the heavyweight championship bout of all time, as many rounds as it takes, fought to the death — husband vs. wife!
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:11PMA puzzle pursued in intriguing fits and starts, narration alternating with wordless installations, magic walls that write, a ceiling that speaks, characters doubled, the audience o…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:05PMLONDON — One of the pleasures of London’s West End is that it encompasses greater variety than Broadway, its New York equivalent. West End theaters come in more sizes and the shows …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:15PMLONDON — On a London theater trip, it’s a good idea to start your planning with the schedule of the National Theatre, the grand empire on the south bank of the Thames.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:57AMTo start what is both preamble and coda to his 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, August Wilson levels an indictment: “For the first 244 years we [African-Americans] never had a problem finding a j…
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