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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 …
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (PNME) is a group of top-notch musicians that has been making July Friday and Saturday nights compelling musical experiences since 1976, and the work they have …
A Letter from the Editor, Here we are again, on the cusp of Summer. This will be Pittsburgh in the Round’s 5th Summer season here in the Steel City so we truly want to thank you, our preci…
As the denouement of City Theatre’s exhilarating and compelling season swiftly approaches, the illustrious Pittsburgh theatre annually elects to end things with a proverbial bang, keeping …
Just like real estate signs and orange highway cones, Musical Theatre in the Pittsburgh area comes into full bloom in the summer months. While there are dozens of musicals scheduled, for t…
Back in 2013, the launch of a new community theatre in Westmoreland County seemed like just a pipe dream to Rob Jessup and Nate Newell, Split Stage Productions founders and co-owners. Despit…
Memorial Day is upon us and with that the official start of Summer. It is time for Pittsburgh CLO’s 72nd season which features some of the best of American Musical Theatre. With some gre…
Unbelievably talented high school students along with glitz and glam were in abundance at this year’s Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater. The Benedum was packe…
When you meet Jeffrey Chips, artistic director for the Steel City Shakespeare Center, you’re immediately struck by his indisputable kindness and genuineness. The mission of the Steel City …
Last Sunday following the last performance of Ted Pappas’ masterful production of Hamlet, a group of three hundred plus fans of his gathered at the O’Reilly to celebrate his twenty-five-…
A despondent yet wistful boy plays a series of rhythmically haunting chords and beats on a loop pedal that he adroitly interweaves and syncopates with such meticulousness and emotional purpo…
For the first of two shows in their season entitled “Real People, Real Stories”, Front Porch presents an autobiographical musical. Composer William Finn began work on A New Brain after…
Seeing a play at August Wilson’s actual home is beyond a privilege. It is absolutely necessary as someone who is in Pittsburgh and loves theatre to indulge in this experience! It is ex…
Perhaps one of the most indulgently delightful moments in cinema in the 80s takes place during a gleefully macabre funeral for two high school jocks in the 1988 cult classic The Heathers. Bl…
I expect, if you go see Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s production of Avenue Q, you’ll have a great time, since they’ve put on a hilariously good production, making the most out of the ir…
Over seven decades later, World War II still exists as one of the darkest times in the history of mankind. Storytellers continue to mine its historical highs and lows for new content to this…
Next weekend Resonance Works will provide the ultra-rare opportunity of hearing Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka – an enchanting opera not only new to Pittsburgh, but to be sung in its origin…
