1,756 stories by "Ghoover"
I have been fortunate enough in the last few months to see two productions of Tennessee Williams’ works. Last month I saw the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s The Glass Menagerie and then mor…
The second installment in the Pittsburgh Public Theater‘s “Season of Legends” is the world premiere of a new play that is chock full of…well, legends. The play is called L’hotel (t…
Evita follows the life of Eva Perόn (played by Cynthia Daugherty), second wife of Argentine President Juan Perόn (played by Leon Zionts). The story begins with Eva’s young adulthood as a…
There’s a difference between seeing Avenue Q when you’re in college and seeing Avenue Q almost four years after college. When I saw it in college I was all “HA! Puppets saying fuck and…
When putting on a Shakespeare play in modern times, it’s important to approach it in a way that can appeal to a modern audience (at this point, I take a puff of my pipe). But seriously, in…
This week I was given the opportunity to see the regional premiere of Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair’s whodunit musical, Murder for Two at the Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret Theater. Filled with fa…
The Bricolage Production Company is drawing a lot of laughs from the audience with their Midnight Radio production of SCarrie: The Musical. Midnight Radio is a live comedy series in the styl…
This weekend saw the opening of Throughline Theatre Company’s final installment of their 2014 Mortality and Divinity based season. Directors Kaitlin Kerr and Liam Macik turn the 2005 scr…
Off the Wall Productions has started their season off strong with the production of The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs. If this show is any hint at what the rest of the season has to br…
There are a lot of things to think about after seeing Outside Mullingar. The new play by John Patrick Shanley (author of the fantastic Doubt) deals with themes of getting older, planning ahe…
The Glass Menagerie is set in the small apartment of the fatherless Wingfield family, comprised of Amanda and her two children, Tom and Laura. Tom spends his days working a job at a shoe fac…
There’s a superstition in the theater world that saying the word “Macbeth” in a theater will lead to something bad happening to the production, rumored because real witches cursed the …
There are countless stories about war. Some stories are about the effects war has on a country or on history. Others are more personal, about say how one man survived the worst time of his l…
This week begins the second of a three week run for Little Lake Theater’s production of the 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable. The show, turned movie in 2008, illustra…
I grew up on a small farm. It wasn’t an “up at the crack of dawn to milk the cows” situation, but I’ve loaded my share of hay bales into the barn. I was not a true farmer in any... R…
Bus stops, those dreadful asylums for awkward stares and weather talk, are not a place of insight, a place of harbor, nor a place for incredibly meaningful conversation. Odd, then, that ever…
Sitting down to write this review of Parade, the one word I can’t get out of my head is “injustice”. As I watched this fabulous production about a man arrested and charged for a crime …
Every time I see a show presented by the Quantum Theatre I am full of compliments about how creatively they use unique spaces to set the feel for their productions. Well their current produc…
I find it difficult to talk about David Mamet. I’m not well-versed in his works, having read Glengarry Glen Ross in college and having trouble talking about it then. Now I’ve seen Romanc…
“Fixing King John,” running July 18 – August 2 at Off the Wall Theater, by Kirk Lynn is a triumph in both parody and irony. This contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s “King John…
Last weekend (which also happened to coincide with Mother’s Day weekend) was Pittsburgh’s very first Fringe Festival. It also happened to be my first Fringe Festival. I always knew that …
I’m not really sure how to format this. A small group of us saw as many shows as we could within our circumstances. Here you go. The Accordion Monologues– Stephen Pe…
This past weekend marked the Inagural Pittsburgh Fringe Festival. With acts including movement, monologues, singing, dancing and improvisation, companies from around the country and from our…
Here’s what you missed last week… Pantagleize at the Quantum Theatre closed on Sunday, April 27. Check out our review of it here. Lives of the Saints closed at CMU on Saturday, April 26.…
Here’s what you missed last week… The Playboy of the Western World closed for the Conservatory at the Pittsburgh Playhouse on Saturday, April 19. This show closed the season for the Cons…
