75 stories by "George Hoover"
The Quantum crew’s production of An Odyssey might be one of the company’s most creative ones yet. Reviewed by Bob Hoover With thanks to Stephen King, “Everything old is new again.” A…
Vivid and colorful characters give the audience a hardy laugh and a classic night out at the theatre. Review by Britt Haefeli Simply electric performances, which turned out to be ironic for…
Reviewed by Laura Caton If you’re anything like me, the past 18 months have left you feeling tired, rundown, and listless. But luckily, if you’re anything like me, the production of Lega…
Review By Britt Haefeli After nearly two years of a world in pause, life seems to be heading to some sort of normalcy. Actors are returning to their stages, and many are back into the stress…
The Pittsburgh CLO opened its seventy-fifth anniversary season with their production of “The Wizard of Oz” at Heinz Field this week. Faced with the possibility of a second canceled seaso…
In a previous post, I discussed the difficulties that theater companies encounter in selecting a holiday show, particularly one that hasn’t been over-produced in the Pittsburgh area. …
Steel City Shakespeare Center opened their holiday offering, Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol with the first of four presentations, this at the Trinity Lutheran Church on the Northside.…
Point Park University’s Conservatory Dance Company opened their Winter Dance Concert on Friday, the first full production in new Pittsburgh Playhouse’s PNC Theatre. The Winter Dance Con…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Wit, by Margaret Edison, opened Friday to a nearly sold-out audience at the new and intimate Iron Horse Theatre in Ambridge. We meet Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., …
PICT Classic Theatre opened their 22nd season with the theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens classic serialized novel The Old Curiosity Shop. PICT Artistic and Executive Director Alan Sta…
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company opened their 15th season Thursday evening with a month-long Ray Werner Play Festival, featuring five of his works. This performance was the world pre…
Prime Stage Theatre’s 22nd season – “The Season of Courage” – opened Saturday evening with John Steinbeck’s classic story Of Mice and Men. Based on the Steinbeck’s novella of t…
On Friday, the Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Point Park University officially opened the new Pittsburgh Playhouse with their stunning production of Cabaret. This multiple Tony award…
Casting is a crucial element in the success of any production. It’s a crapshoot, and even more of a gamble in community theatre as the pool of actors is usually more limited. Alyssa Brun…
Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts (COPA) Dance Program opened their 2018-19 season with Contemporary Choreographers the first of six programs. This offering is fou…
Texture Contemporary Ballet opened its eighth season with The Speed of Sound at the New Hazlett Theatre on Friday evening. The program consisted of two premieres; Glass Walls with music co…
Little Lake Theatre opened their modern version of Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth Thursday evening. The production, directed by Little Lake’s Artistic Director Jena Oberg, uses the campu…
As part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, Quantum Theatre’s ambitious, immersive World Premiere production of Chatterton, opened at the Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pitt…
Corningworks opened its tenth season with the thought-provoking dance theatre piece The Waiting Room. As we take our seats in the New Hazlett Theater, we are welcomed by the sight of a dimly…
Based on the 1975 documentary film, Grey Gardens is the mostly non-fiction dramatized story of the decline of two of America’s aristocratic royalty and their descent into ruin. They are a…
Apple Hill Playhouse’s latest production, Mama Won’t Fly, opened to a full house of loyal followers on Thursday. (The show had its world premiere at Stage Right in 2011.) Written by Jess…
South Park Theatre’s production of Catch Me If You Can has more plot twists and turns than a Parkway West construction detour! However, before we go any further, this show bears no similar…
For their fiftieth production, The Alumni Theatre Company reprises their first show. The Wiz is a retelling of L. Frank Baum’s classic 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in…
The musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels first premiered on stage in 2004, an offshoot of the movie by the same name. The story revolves around two con artists. Lawrence Jameson lives …
Unless you just dropped on to Earth from another planet, it would be difficult to believe you are not familiar with Grease from the many theatrical productions or the 1978 film. But just in …
