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By Ringa Sunn The Pittsburgh CLO has a unique program called SPARK. The basic idea behind the program is to give writers a supportive environment to create small-cast musicals. The Double-Th…
By Brian Pope Faith is in the eye of the beholder. It is an abstract concept. It is reliant on context. It is difficult to hold on to when the harsh realities become overwhelming. The conseq…
By Brian Pope Conventional wisdom dictates that you should never meet your idols. You run the risk of said idols failing to meet the stratospheric expectations you set for their personalitie…
For its second and last Resident Artist production of the winter, Pittsburgh Opera will present the local premiere of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied, beginning Saturday, February 23, at the co…
By Tyler Prah The National Institute of Health reports that 1 in 5 adults within the United States (over 40 million) is facing mental illness. This fails to account for the worsening trend i…
By Linda Harcom There are times when I go to the theatre and I am truly amazed at the level of talent we have in our area. Saturday night was one of those times, when I attended Split Stage�…
By Eva Phillips What we have stored as memory is vital. Everything present, everything “now” is chaos. This is statement that is at once a quixotically simple, irrefutable truth, and und…
Pittsburgh Opera, shortly after announcing that its Education and Outreach programs have earned the company a prestigious spot as a finalist in the 2019 International Opera Awards, has relea…
By Brian Pope Pittsburgh Winter 2019 has (so far) been very unkind to residents. It’s par for the course but distressing nonetheless. Unexpectedly though, the season and the city have been…
Mozart’s colossal Idomeneo, first heard on January 29, 1781 in Munich, is an opera with a history of “re-visitations” stretching back to the days of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Richard St…
As the new year begins, exciting chapters are opening in the world of Pittsburgh in the Round, the comprehensive online magazine covering theatre, dance and opera for the Greater Pittsburgh…
By Helen Meade Pittsburgh Classic Players opened their first full season of plays with an appropriately-timed production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night…on Twelfth Night (Friday, …
January is a slow month in Pittsburgh for the opening dates of musicals except for the national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton at the Benedum through the end of the month. As Hamil…
Well friends. 2018 is nearly over. It’s been a big year for us. We’ve welcomed a few newcomers to our writing team, expanded our coverage and written more than we’ve ever written! 184 …
To value ourselves as more than the sum of our parts is an abstraction that seems almost inconceivable. Allowing ourselves meaning that transcends the borders and limitations that, because o…
The Cultural District, its theaters and galleries have always been a magical place. It is about to become even more magical with the addition of Liberty Magic, an intimate speakeasy-style ma…
I love Midnight Radio. The concept of the show is perfectly summed up in their intro: it’s a radio show that’s not on the radio. For ten years, Bricolage Production Company has adapted s…
The gnawing anxieties and insecurities and ceaseless self-doubt of the emerging artists are the starts of Anton Chekov’s lauded, and now somewhat notorious, masterpiece The Seagull. The so…
Musicals and bucolic folk stories can often function to encase the bleak in baroque, to dress the macabre in diaphanous, floral cloaks, and to adorn the dire with hints of whimsy. These flou…
I got to see the Ray Werner Festival on an evening where two one-acts were performed. The first of which was called The Stuttering Pig, and you can imagine my disappointment when, spoiler al…
A letter from the Editor, Well, here we are again, my dear readers. Nearly the end of the year. Nearly winter. Nearly time for new beginnings. It’s also nearly our 5th birthday! In our nea…
Designed as a showcase for playwrights, directors, and actors of the “over forty” set, The Silver Theater Project continues its Salon Play staged reading series with Vivienne at The Gli…
Taking the reins at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski summons Shakespeare for her directorial debut of her innovative adaptation of The Tempest, January 24-Fe…
In an ideal world should be an onus on theatre and the artists who work to produce theatre to uphold a particular ethos and promulgate art that entertains as much as it informs and represent…
Among the definitions of “late bloomer,” you should find the name, Ray Werner. As he turned 80 this year, the longtime Point Breeze resident enjoyed his first “Ray Fest,” the debut o…
