Reviewed by Dr. TIFFANY RAYMOND, PhD Feminist swag is often emblazoned with reminders that the future is female. Director Jennifer Tober doesn’t limit that to the future. The past a…
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD South Park Theatre brings Ken Ludwig‘s Gods of Comedy to the stage. This rompish affair pairs Greek gods with mere mortals, and hilarity ensues. D…
Elvis Rocks the House at Little Lake Theatre Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD Little Lake Theatre turns Heartbreak Hotel with two one-act plays about Elvis. Playwright Ellen Byron auth…
Steel City Shakespeare’s Dracula Leaves a Memorable Mark Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD Among the pinky-raising crowd, the term community theatre can be a disparaging one connoting…
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD The Iron Horse Theatre Company in Ambridge is currently staging John Patrick Shanley’s 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Doubt. The theatre is a forme…
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD The Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) 31st season is well underway, running through September 18th. This one-of-a-kind theatre festival is a reminder …
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD Little Lake Theatre continues its 2022 season with Tennessee Williams’ A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. Lesser-known plays can sometimes be hidden ge…
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD The Pittsburgh Savoyards commence their 85th season with director Marsha Mayhak‘s crisp, spitfire production of Oscar Wilde‘s 1895 comedic classic, …
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD (This review has been updated to accurately reflect Mr. Thompson’s performance biography.) Limits of Things, or the Mess creator and performer Mark Con…
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD In writing about the theatre, 19th-century critic William Hazlitt noted, “it is the source of the greatest enjoyment at the time.” While Hazlitt penn…
Pittsburgh Public Theater ends its 44th season with Jordan Harrison’s play, Marjorie Prime. It’s the final play in the first season under new artistic director Marya Sea Kaminski who als…
Pittsburgh’s City Theatre hosts the world premiere of Stephen Belber’s extraordinary new play, We Are Among Us. The play explores the lingering effects of war via the conflict between th…
Given Pittsburgh Public Theater opened their season with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, it’s a bold choice for Cross-Stitch Theatre Company to follow suit. Not only is Pride and P…
Premieres 42 presents seven new, one-act plays written, acted, and directed by Duquesne University students. While seven plays sounds like a daunting evening, the total running time is a tig…
Now in its third season, Mythburgh has institutionalized itself as part of the 12 Peers Theater line-up. Each Mythburgh show has only one performance, and to date, all of them have been a…
Mime Candy Mime Candy starts with a voiceover from pantomime artist, Candy Love, the star of her solo mime show, informing us she is “Here to experience this human life with you on stage…
At City Theatre’s production of Jen Silverman’s The Roommate, the program cover is a sketch of a tipped over coffee cup, the spill spreading into the shape of a pot leaf. Before the show…
The Legend of Georgia McBride traces one man’s journey from lackluster Elvis impersonator to lascivious drag queen. Casey (Andrew Swackhamer) is an accidental drag queen, if there is such …
Walking through a bookstore, there are sections we all dodge. For me, it’s romance novels. Covers of strapping hunks with bedroom eyes scream redundancy. So it is with the theatre; differe…
Nuncrackers is a Christmas concert that takes the form of a musical (book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggin). It takes place in the convent basement/public access studio of the Little Sister…
Just when you think no one can do anything new with A Christmas Carol, off the WALL Productions is here to surprise you with Mark Coffin’s one-man rendition of Charles Dickens’ 19th-cent…
Our Lady of Drubbleduffy is one of five new world-premiere plays by local playwright Ray Werner. This dramatic quintet makes up the Ray Werner Play Festival currently debuting at Pittsburgh …
Some stories are critical to get right. The Pittsburgh Public Theater’s latest production, Sweat, is one of those stories. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play traces the ripple ef…
Bricolage Production Company prides itself on producing adventurous theater. As their Midnight Radio series enters its tenth season of producing 1940s era radio shows, they stay true to that…
Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror is an adaptation by Anthony Dodge and Marcia Milgrom Dodge of a 1976 mystery novel by Nicholas Meyer. Like many literary adaptations for the stage, th…