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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…
Our musical pick for December is the Theatre Factory’s production Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical. Picking a holiday musical is often a challenge for community theatres. Th…
The Pittsburgh Classic Players theatre company was founded by three Shakespearean scholars who met in graduate school at Mary Baldwin University. Brett Sullivan Santry, Harper York, and Kati…
Welcome to our Winter Edition of the Top Five Musicals. The juggernaut known as Hamilton will be occupying the Benedum for the entire month of January, but there are still a few good choice…
The holiday season is officially upon us and nowhere else is it more apparent than in Canonsburg’s quaintly decorated Little Lake Theatre. Displaying tinsel hung with care against a festiv…
I am thrilled to share with PITR readers, the opportunity I had to meet Virginia Wall Gruenert, Artistic Director and co-founder of off the WALL Productions. We sat together one evening in O…
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama’s production of Detroit ’67 has all of the elements for success – an award-winning playwright, an award-winning director, a strong design t…
Walking through The Little Lake Theatre Company’s stage felt warm and traditional, like going to your grandparents’ for the holidays. Torches lighted the area and gave an overall homey i…
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A boisterously brassy, flamboyantly limelight-hogging leading lady who seems to encompass every overly aggressive and ostentatious showgirl and Hollywood starlet. A winsome but chronically n…
The human mind knows no bounds of imagination. Fueled by the experiences of life, playwright, artist, and baker Ray Werner journeys to the depths of human nature and back. Combining dialogue…
Whether you like it or not (and I think you will), Hedwig has come to Pittsburgh. She and her band The Angry Inch are here to kick off Pittsburgh Musical Theatre’s Rockin’ West End serie…
