Sunday, July 24, 2016
You don’t have to be the world’s greatest detective to deduce that Sherlock Holmes, in all his literary glory, constitutes a parody waiting to happen.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:37AMActor David Whalen and director Andrew Paul are on the case of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” a strictly LOL version of the Sherlock Holmes story.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:18AMBetween them, Emmy Raver-Lampman and Mark Evans have acted in three of the top box-office and critical successes of the past decade, something to bond over as they prepare to play star-cross…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, July 21, 2016
Summertime, and the theater scene in Western Pennsylvania is alive and cooking up new experiences all the time.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, July 17, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University rising senior John Clay III recently took first place and a $12,000 prize at the National Society of Arts and Letters musical theater competition. In annoucing the…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Pittsburgh CLO no sooner left the baseball diamonds of “Damn Yankees” than it has dived into the fairy-tale world of “Shrek the Musical.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:47PMThursday, July 14, 2016
Rory Donovan and Andre Jordan had met just a few days earlier, but Pittsburgh CLO’s Shrek and Donkey were already finishing each other’s sentences and sharing a bag of chips.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM“Hamilton” said farewell this week to its leading players — creator-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo and Leslie Odom Jr., the Carnegie Mellon University grad who won best actor in…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Audra McDonald began her career as a replacement performer. That’s right, the winner of six Tony Awards and the only Broadway star to earn a Tony in all four acting categories moved into t…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, July 3, 2016
Pirates fans may be getting antsy, rooting for a team that was last in the World Series when Pittsburgh won it all in 1979. But would even the most fanatic true-blue black-and-gold fan sell …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, June 27, 2016
It was 20 years ago June 26 that August Wilson delivered the speech “The Ground on Which I Stand,” a rallying cry for the support of African-American theater artists.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:12AMThursday, June 23, 2016
The post-Tony Awards shuffle has begun on Broadway, with shows benefitting from wins and others moving along for a variety of reasons. “The Humans,” for example, won best play of 2016 wi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:46PMSunday, June 19, 2016
Inspiration for musicals can come from the most bizarre places. Screaming headlines from 1920s Chicago led a trio from that town to the brilliant conclusion that women who kill would make a …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:50AMFriday, June 17, 2016
The musical “She Loves Me” will make history June 30 as the first Broadway show to be live-streamed.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, June 16, 2016
John O’Hurley has become one with the J. Peterman catalog company, as part owner with the real-life J. Peterman. Yet the actor misses the “Seinfeld” character of the same name more tha…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, June 13, 2016
The Tony Awards celebrated “Hamilton’s” coronation and 70 years of honoring Broadway Sunday on a night that began with a declaration of solidarity with Orlando and honoring the victims…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:00AMSunday, June 12, 2016
You will hear “Hamilton” repeatedly tonight, so get used to it. It will be exclaimed just after a Broadway star says, “And the Tony Award goes to …”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, June 10, 2016
“Venus in Fur” storms into Pittsburgh Public Theater with gripping performances and grown-ups-only entertainment about looking for love in all the wrong places. It’s smart and funny, s…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:29PMMonday, June 6, 2016
When you hear dark comic thriller, a children’s story isn’t the first thing that comes to mind — unless the source is Roald Dahl, creator of Willy Wonka, “The Witches” and the…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:56PMFriday, June 3, 2016
It was the giant roaming the stage at the Benedum Center that grabbed everyone’s attention Saturday night at the Gene Kelly Awards ceremony. Baldwin High School was performing a number fro…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, June 2, 2016
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s Festival in Black and White is back for a 12th year of one-act plays featuring a multicultural crop of local writers, directors and actors Saturday…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2016
A storm is brewing throughout “Venus in Fur.” It begins with the arrival of Vanda, disheveled and full of attitude, accompanied by a thunderclap and a bag of tricks.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMCity Theatre’s Momentum 16 — a festival of “plays at different stages” of development — showcases five works in progress Thursday through Sunday at the South Side theater.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, May 29, 2016
Paula Brancati is still attending school, but Degrassi Community School and Crunchem Hall are as different as the dreadlocks sported by Jane Vaughn and the prim blond wig atop Miss Honey’s…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSaturday, May 28, 2016
Marnie Quick of Pittsburgh Obama Academy was crowned Best Actress for the third straight year at Pittsburgh CLO’s Gene Kelly Awards, sending the senior to the National High School Mus…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:53PMThursday, May 26, 2016
Rachel Stevens has been keeping some pretty cool company on her way back to Pittsburgh to do her own thing.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, May 22, 2016
It’s a Broadway geek’s delight, the pairing of Michael Cerveris and Seth Rudetsky in the intimate Cabaret at Theater Square.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, May 20, 2016
It has been 81 years since Alfred Hitchcock introduced the spy thriller “The 39 Steps” and a decade since it morphed into a stage adaption as a comedic homage to “The Master of Suspens…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, May 19, 2016
Summer in the Pittsburgh Cultural District kicks off with CLO Cabaret presenting an ode to Hitchcock thrillers, then moves on to a splashy Broadway musical about a magical little girl before…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, May 18, 2016
August Wilson is about to complete a Broadway cycle. With the Manhattan Theatre Club production of “Jitney,” set in 1970s Pittsburgh, each of the late Pittsburgh playwrights’ 10 plays …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
He comes on like a lamb, does Benjamin Scheuer. Sweet face, pleasant voice, tie askew, he smiles and sails smoothly into a song about a homemade toy that was a father’s gift of music to hi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
