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Tuesday night the Pittsburgh CLO opened its final show of the season, Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Benedum Center for The Performing Arts in Pittsburgh and I have to say, I “thoroughly…
The playbill for Little Lake Theatre Company’s Production of Steel Magnolias proclaims that the show is “a Little Lake favorite,” making it a great selection for their 70th anniversary…
The CLO’s latest offering of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is an ebullient production, full of color, energy, magic, and fun. The show celebrates vintage Disney and vintage musicals wit…
“Start the f*cking play!” As an audience member and a (usually) willing spectator in the events that unfold before you, there is a certain element of participation and responsibility tha…
There are some musicals that people want to go see for the clever lyrics, thrilling plot, and complex characters. Then there are some that people want to see to enjoy pretty dancing and sing…
Week 3 of Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble’s 2018 season was graced by the practically perfect performance entitled To love and be loved, a collection of art songs compiled to create the stor…
There often isn’t the emotional or pragmatic space anymore to dedicate the time to storytellers and fantastically capricious tales. Deeply nostalgic in nature, plays and films and books th…
Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a troubling and troublesome play. Troubling because it is still, even at 71 years old, emotionally harrowing and often deeply disturbing. It…
Propped upon a music stand, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” resembles a holy text and its spartan backdrop, a reliquary. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) …
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” may be one of the better-known Shakespeare quotes, but it also happens to describe the ensemble of The New Renaissance Theatre Company’s As…
Kiss the day goodbye… When theatre practitioners gather there are stories to be told. When Point Park University invited former performing arts students and friends to the venerable Pittsb…
Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale. Caroline Nicolian and David Toole. If you’ve been living under a theatrical rock in Pittsburgh for the last several yea…
An air of solemnity and dire seriousness imbues the cramped theatre where Ubu Roi is staged. As you navigate your way to a seat, a severe woman brusquely urges you to get settled as quickly …
Pittsburgh CLO’s second offering of the 2018 season is the Tony Award-winning Titanic the Musical, created by Peter Stone (story and book) and Maury Yeston (music and lyrics). At its mos…
What do a throw pillow, a hula hoop, and a car door with the word “peach” spray painted on it have in common? Stumped? Well, don’t rack your brain too much trying to solve this riddle …
In its final moments, Ragtime: The Musical at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center gives us a glimpse at what the world could be: unified in its diversity, striving for a better future, a…
When you go to see The Rocky Horror Show you know going in, you are not expecting anything akin to Shakespeare or Wicked. You are going for pure R-rated, campy, fun where the audience partic…
I think there is a crucial plot point missing from each of the shows in the recent rash of biographical jukebox musicals adapting the stories of iconic recording artists for the stage. No…
M’Lynn. Truvy. Anelle. Clairee. Shelby. OUISER. For a certain generation and very distinct demographic, these are names that evoke a particularly unique upswelling of emotions and response…
The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC – not to be confused with the Royal Shakespeare Company) has once again brought their wacky take on Shakespeare to Pittsburgh with their latest work, W…
Designed as a showcase for playwrights, directors and actors of the “over forty” set, The Silver Theater Project continues its Spring Salon Play Reading Series at The Glitter Box Theater…
The local “Intimate Opera Theater,” Pittsburgh Festival Opera, will begin its summer offerings the evening of Friday, July 6, at the Falk Auditorium of Winchester Thurston in Shadyside. …
The production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans that opened on May 31 at Aftershock Theatre in Lawrenceville is clearly a labor of love for its cast and crew. The production, put on without an es…
Imagine a country where the leader has decided that the people he doesn’t like should be rounded up and removed, using any means necessary. Picture millions of people in this country being…
The nearly unconscionable sweltering heat that infested the neatly dilapidated top floor of an old Slovenian social hall nestled back on a side street in outer Lawrenceville was apropos for …
