As the title initially suggests, "Lungs" has a lot of words. Director Spencer Whale starts it with a silent interpretive dance that in hindsight you realize epitomizes the story's general ou…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:33PM[SHARE]Which of your senses would you give up first? Granted, the five enhance each other. But taste " that would be first to go, right? Then feeling " even with all the physical danger that would …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]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's c…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:22PM[SHARE]With more wit and thought than puns and pratfalls, this is what's meant by "high comedy." But for all its delicious dialogue, Ivan Turgenev's play is never arch. Not Noel Coward, it's earthi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:26AM[SHARE]NEW YORK " For its 46th annual induction, the Theater Hall of Fame gathered theater professionals, families and friends to celebrate eight additions to the 536 already adorning the upper lob…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:52PM[SHARE]He's a Texan, Pittsburgher and New Yorker, but mainly, actor-playwright Eugene Lee is a native of the stage.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Why now? Why Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" in 2016? Because money still trumps love. Because racism and anti-Semitism flourish. And because the quality of mercy is indeed strained "…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]We love our children, but do they love us? (Did we love our parents?) Peter Ustinov put it this way: "Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth." Children necessarily win i…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Yes, "Hand to God" is just as funny as you've heard, and if you haven't heard, you must live too far away from the South Side to hear the gales of laughter. But "gales" isn't strong enough "…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Something old and something new: Quantum Theatre's shows are rarely conventional or predictable, but Lope de Vega's "Peribanez" plays with conventions in surprising ways, while its ending is…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Summertime, and the theater is easy . . . except that it isn't always, not when it's Samuel Beckett.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:25AM[SHARE]What fun! But first, some history.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:50AM[SHARE]For the 12th annual version of its signature Theatre Festival in Black & White, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre mixes and matches its one-act plays with a difference. Rather than grouping…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:37PM[SHARE]The New Horizon Theatre has done us a favor by reviving "The Old Settler," partly because it's a reminder of the playwright, John Henry Redwood (1943-2003), who had substantial ties to …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:57AM[SHARE]When is a cabaret not a cabaret, or a play not a play?
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]It's as if Mike Bartlett's play isn't wearing any clothes, and I exited thinking, in the hyperbole of fresh enthusiasm, why aren't all plays like this?! Who needs furniture, props, eve…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:47PM[SHARE]For years, the house at 1727 Bedford Ave. in the Hill District has sat as a rebuke to Pittsburgh " derelict, crumbling, the windows rotting. Visiting theater artists and other pilgrims …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]The one thing everyone seems to know about "The Flick" is that it's long " and it turns out to be longer than you've heard, because it's three hours plus the intermission.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:06PM[SHARE]An African American, a Jew and a WASP walk into a bar . . . That's how the joke might begin, except in this case it isn't a bar, there's also a Muslim-American, and "Disgraced" isn't (as its…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]The eighth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition had a special guest last night at the August Wilson Center: Denzel Washington, in town preparing to direct and star in a movie of Mr. Wi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's comedies are supposed to be fun, and pruned and reinvented with more than a touch of improv, this Filter Theatre version of "Twelfth Night," direct from London to the Byham The…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:31PM[SHARE]On the stage, just five actors, because that's what the economics of new plays demands. But projected on a soaring rear wall suggesting filing cabinets or concentration camp concrete, a visu…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Theater is one place where evil really pays off, and no one had a more loathsome, villainous pair of leading roles to play on Pittsburgh stages in 2015 than James FitzGerald. His rise to the…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]NEW YORK " That medium-large island off the coast of Europe continues to exercise considerable fascination on our stage. Here are two bold British imports causing a stir on Broadway, "K…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]To start with, "Yinz'r" is a contraction of "yinz are," and "scrooged" is, of course, a verb made out of the famous name. If you're within the sound of this review, you know what "yinz" mean…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Homer, Shakespeare, Cervantes " whatever their genres, the great authors were always great storytellers. Victorian novelist Charles Dickens (1812-70) belongs in that elite company, and altho…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Don't let the blistering street language with which Dominique Morisseau opens "Sunset Baby" mislead you: It's with a poet's skill and an aching heart that she observes this trio of angry you…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:59PM[SHARE]Along with his poetry and passion, August Wilson had the gift of finding the intimate in the epic, and vice versa. In his Pittsburgh Cycle of 10 plays, he tells stories of families and indiv…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]NEW YORK " First up in the 45th induction ceremony into the Theater Hall of Fame in the upper lobby of Broadway's Gershwin Theatre, where the names of Hall members are emblazoned in gol…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:48PM[SHARE]Midway or so through Andrea Lepcio's new play, one of the two bewildered women trapped in a mysterious underground of memory and clutter says, "I feel like I didn't get the memo."
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Homophobia at a prestigious all-black prep school is at the heart of it. In contrast, there are spirituals, lovingly sung a cappella as respite from the taut, competitive life of a dema…
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