by JADE GOODES The Theatre Factory’s latest production takes audiences into a murder-mystery whodunit in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. Directed by Ron Ferrara, this play is a za…
By JADE GOODES Front Porch Theatricals’ all-female production takes audiences back to the radical 90s in A…My Name is Still Alice. Directed by Nancy McNulty McGeever, this revue-ske…
By JADE GOODES Mon River Arts takes on a classic musical filled with tradition in their current Fiddler on the Roof production. It’s easy to understand why this show is considered timele…
By JADE GOODES This week, I had the opportunity to experience a play with which I had only ever been familiar by the title. The Kite Runner, based on the best-selling novel of the same name…
By JADE GOODES I had the pleasure of seeing the opening night performance of The Lincoln Center’s Production of Lerner & Lowe’s My Fair Lady at the Benedum Center on Tuesday night…
Pitt Stages offers a new take on a classic play in their latest production, John Proctor Is The Villain. Written by Kimberly Belflower, this female-led show tackles issues and struggles th…
Staged underneath the O’Reilly Theater stage with performances now to November 19th. By JADE GOODES Pittsburgh Public Theater takes on Edgar Allan Poe’s famous macabre short story in t…
By JADE GOODES Comtra Theatre‘s production of the Disney classic is just the thing to warm your heart on a cold fall night. While this production doesn’t always have steady footing, its …
By Jade Goodes Last weekend I visited Parish Hill Barn, where audiences are being taken on a journey to Salem, Massachusetts, where rumors, accusations, and fear run wild. Vigilance Theater …
By JADE GOODES Take a trip down South, or at least as far as the O’Reilly Theater, and catch up with the denizens of Steel Magnolias. No matter how familiar you are with these women and th…
By Jade Goodes The Theatre Factory is celebrating love, wintertime, and the spirit of the holiday season in their latest production of Almost, Maine. Almost, Maine follows the townspeople …
Reviewed by Jade Goodes Pittsburgh Public Theater explores love and loss in their latest production of Love Letters. Starring Family Ties own Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, the play …
Liberty Magic’s current show features a performer considered one of the world’s finest sleight-of-hand magicians. Paul Gertner weaves magic, storytelling, and wonder in Steel City Mir…
By Jade Goodes You may be familiar with a story about a young orphan boy who discovered he was a wizard and was swept away to a school where he learned all about magic and friendship. Well, …
By Jade Goodes Come fly away with The Theatre Factory in their current production of the 1960s play Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti. This French farce, adapted for the English-speaking st…
By Jade Goodes Based on the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name, the show is a sequel of sorts to Disney’s classic films. The stage adaptation combines the more iconic moments f…
The Trafford Performing Arts Center tackles uncertainty, abuse of power, and the fight for justice in The Theatre Factory’s latest production of Doubt: A Parable. By Jade Goodes (Note: Thi…
Reviewed by Jade Goodes Last weekend Apple Hill Players began their first solo production at the Trafford Performing Arts Center since their merger with the Theatre Factory earlier this year…
Reviewed by Jade Goodes Here I go again! What better way to celebrate the return of live theater than with a trip to Trafford Performing Arts Center for their opening night performance of M…
The hills are alive with The Sound of Music at Pittsburgh Musical Theater in their current production of the classic Rogers & Hammerstein musical, directed by Colleen Doyo. Whether you w…
One of Broadway’s most legendary performers comes face-to-face with two of Broadway’s most current residents in Pittsburgh CLO’s production of The Book of Merman. A hilarious heartf…
This past weekend I attended Comtra Theatre’s opening night performance of Dogfight. The show first debuted Off-Broadway in 2012 as a musical adaptation of the 1991 film of the same name. …
This holiday season, Arcade Comedy Theater invites audiences to join them for a night of debauchery with The Night Before Christmas by Anthony Neilson. Unlike the classic poem of the same…
Stage 62 takes audiences back to the 1960s in their latest production of Hairspray. The musical is based on John Waters’s 1988 film of the same name. With its six-year run on Broadway, …
Non-State Actors latest production tackles cults and their susceptible nature in The Ravages of Now. The devised play puts the audience in the middle of a meeting for, “The Collective,” …