Tuesday, 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 06:00AMSaturday, December 22, 2018
2018 Post-Gazette Performer of the Year Wali Jamal delivers PG/August Wilson House honor in person.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:38PMFriday, 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 07:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
“The Waltons” star has logged six decades on stage, often in the works of O’Neill, Chekhov, Shaw, Beckett and Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
He attended Carnegie Tech and performed with the American Conservatory Theater in Pittsburgh and San Francisco.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:16PMLaughs and sentiment highlighted the 2018 Theater Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Gershwin Theatre on Monday.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:04PMFriday, October 12, 2018
It’s powerful as visceral experience and shockingly entertaining as satirical, even surreal commentary.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:09PMSunday, September 23, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
As long as this confusion reigns, the play intrigues, skating on the edge of Pinter-land.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:30AMMonday, September 17, 2018
Vanessa German’s charisma is a highlight of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre production, extended through Oct. 14.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00PMThursday, August 9, 2018
The audience is invited to participate in the play with the “Stupid” title, inspired by Chekhov and performed by a capable cast.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:21PMThursday, July 26, 2018
The Hatch Arts production at Nova Place features six actors playing 13 roles in the Pulitzer finalist play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:02PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
The very title is as big as can be, the vainglorious name given the huge ship that sank in 1912, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
In a very old tradition, the Pittsburgh Public Theater has chosen to follow the season’s highpoint, a wonderful “Hamlet,” with that tragedy’s complete antithesis, the Reduced Shakesp…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:28AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
HOUSTON, Texas — The Ensemble Theatre, the third largest African-American theater company in the country, threw itself a double party on May 12. It was celebrating the opening of August Wi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:51PMMonday, May 21, 2018
We’ve recently had a number of “we are the world” plays, in the spirit of those lawn signs welcoming all ethnicities and religions. Some were written or conceived before our recent civ…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:06PMMonday, April 30, 2018
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Who was the first great American playwright? Shakespeare, of course, on whom American theater cut its teeth for a century or more.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:18PMMonday, March 19, 2018
Heisenberg, n. (1) Werner Heisenberg (1901-76), a theoretical physicist. (2) A 2015 play by Simon Stephens now at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. (3) Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Prin…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:12PMMonday, March 5, 2018
Old family snapshots, personal memories and a search for the differing truths behind them might seem common fodder for a poem, but for a play? Sounds more like therapy than theater — but n…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
While telling us to turn off our cell phones, artistic director Andrew Paul strictly enjoins us not to give away “the twist” that provides much of the fun.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
Sometimes the personal and political seem at odds, but their conjunction can suggest a larger truth, or at least a hope. Such is the case with Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ’67,” a …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:23AMSunday, February 4, 2018
For the final professional stage production at the grand and ramshackle old Pittsburgh Playhouse, soon to be deserted for new digs Downtown, the powers that be at Playhouse Rep clearly scann…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:09PMMonday, January 29, 2018
Inevitably, right from the start, it’s all about the performance. Yes, there’s a story, but that seems mainly the pro-forma framework on which to erect the one-man performance through wh…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:12PMTuesday, January 2, 2018
Pittsburgh 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 07:30AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
They say Christmas comes but once a year, but it sure seems like more as the year turns quicker and quicker. This tends to fray some familiar Christmas traditions. It’s one of those good n…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:22AMThursday, December 7, 2017
Never match wits with a master. That is to say, when reviewing a genius wit like Oscar Wilde (and who is there like him?), don’t try to be witty yourself. You can’t measure up.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:25PM 
