75 stories by "George Hoover"
Noel Coward’s delightful Hay Fever, the fourth production of Little Lake Theatre Company’s 70th anniversary season, opened this past evening to an audience filled with laughter. This hil…
The Cemetery Club, currently in performance at the South Park Theatre is a charming play about three Jewish women. They are life-long friends who are in their late fifties, live in Brooklyn,…
Last week’s Perfect Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was the expected model for British royalty, but with a strong American influence. It was deliberately conservative, and i…
Legendary Pittsburgh actress Helena Ruoti is a tour de force as Paige in Hir, the genuinely modern yet dysfunctional family dramedy at the Barebones Black Box Theatre in Braddock. As you ent…
Comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician Steve Martin explores the absurdity of genius and the inspiration for creativity in his first play, the zany and brain-teasing Picasso at the Lapi…
Forbidden Broadway is a charming musical revue that unmasks some of the magic of musical theatre by spoofing the shows, songs, and performers from the great white way. It does so out of love…
A Bright Room Called Day, CMU’s final mainstage production of the season, traces Germany’s rapid and tumultuous transition from democracy to fascism and focuses on Hitler and the Nazi pa…
“With each new day comes a new horizon to remind us of the beauty of the present and the promise of growth in the future.” This is the premise of Rushing Horizons the current performance…
The Pittsburgh Playhouse’s production of 42nd Street showcases the depth and strength of dancing and singing talent within Point Park University’s Conservatory Theatre Company. Based upo…
Inside Passage is the touching story of the search for beginnings, lost family members and lost ways of life told in an exciting and compelling way. It is an exciting and different evening o…
CMU Drama’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone is a high-energy fun-filled spoof of American musicals from the 1920s. It was created initially as a performance piece in 1997 for the s…
The Theatre Factory production of A.R. Gurney ‘s Sylvia is a charming and funny story of a man, his wife, and the love triangle their new dog Sylvia creates. It’s the early 1990’s, and…
Ted Pappas first staged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for Pittsburgh Public Theater 20 years ago as a guest director. He has chosen it as the last musical he will direct &am…
If you are parents or grandparents of preschoolers, and love theatre, a suitable show to introduce them to the magic of theatre isn’t always easy to find. Gemini Children’s Theater has t…
We are at the Lamp Theatre in Irwin for the final dress rehearsal and a preview of Split Stages production of That Time of the Year which begins its two-day run tonight. Split Stage Producti…
Carnegie Stage has a hit in the making on its hands with the Christmas musical The Carols which had its Western Pennsylvania premiere on Thursday in Carnegie. The show was commissioned by Ph…
It seems that every theatre company has its own Christmas show or two. The Little Lake Theatre Company in Canonsburg has A Tuna Christmas, set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas. Like ever…
Directors and theatre companies have been adapting and tweaking the works of William Shakespeare for centuries. Alterations run the gamut from changing the setting and characters genders to …
It has been said that musical theatre and opera are the two most collaborative art forms. Actors, singers, dancers, designers, musicians, choreographers, and directors must work together in …
The Silver Theater Project presented the third of their 2017 inaugural fall season’s Salon Readings with F.J. Hartland’s Mother Tongue on Saturday, at the Glitter Box Theater. Most reade…
Arthur Miller’s classic, The Crucible, is a dramatized and partially fictionalized play based upon the Salem Witch Trials during 1692/93. When taken at its simplest form, the plot center…
“Everyone deserves one song.” Author Molly Rice has provided just that in her work Angelmakers: Songs for Female Serial Killers. Performed as a cabaret-style concert, it features the i…
Point Park University brings a delightful mix of Cole Porter and William Shakespeare to their final season at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in Oakland with the backstage musical Kiss Me, Kate. Wi…
Pittsburgh’s oldest amateur theatre company, The Duquesne Red Masquers opens its 105th season with Orphie and the Book of Heroes. This season’s selection of shows co-ordinates with The N…
Attack Theatre’s twenty-third seasons opens with Some Assembly Required, an engaging hybrid composed of dance, music, and visual art. Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza engaged the audien…
