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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…
Love: a universal only rivaled by war. Both are intertwined at the heart of the tribal musical Hair amidst the political counterculture movement of the 1960s. Told through an ensemble f…
The Cultural Trust celebrates this year’s Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts with a classy and uniquely extravagant wrap party and fundraiser Promenade in the Pavilion on Saturday…
Prime Stage Theatre’s 22nd season – “The Season of Courage” – opened Saturday evening with John Steinbeck’s classic story Of Mice and Men. Based on the Steinbeck’s novella of t…
Before the curtain went up on Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel last night, Christopher Hahn, General Director of Pittsburgh Opera, walked to a corner of the stage and with digni…
The hopes and fears of parents multiply exponentially when your child is a young black man. Likewise statistics shared in City Theatre’s program support that black students (male and femal…
Once upon a time, the world at large acknowledged the fact that there are more than just two genders. Or so Aristophanes tells it in Plato’s philosophical epic Symposium. In the age o…
Pittsburgh CLO ’s production of An American In Paris gets a television encore on PBS’ Great Performances series on Friday, November 2nd at 9 pm on WQED. The show, which garnered multip…
There are some unspoken rules and expectations of theatergoing. If five or more children under the age of five are in the audience, you’re either at a restaged Aladdin, or you’re in for…
A sweet young red-headed orphan by the name of Annie sang her way into the hearts of many at the Byham Theater’s production of Annie. This particular show was performed by the Pittsburgh M…
Soprano Ashley Fabian, the second-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist, will be one of the promising features in the company’s upcoming production of Hansel & Gretel, German composer …
On Friday, the Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Point Park University officially opened the new Pittsburgh Playhouse with their stunning production of Cabaret. This multiple Tony award…
The New Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of David Davalos’s play, Wittenberg, is a low budget-high ambition love-fest of ideas and words, not perfect by any means, with highs and…
Casting is a crucial element in the success of any production. It’s a crapshoot, and even more of a gamble in community theatre as the pool of actors is usually more limited. Alyssa Brun…
America’s musical legacy is celebrated in an effervescent On the Town, bubbling over in honor of the centenary of composer Leonard Bernstein and the opening of the sixth season for Resonan…
Chaos reigns supreme in Stage Right Pittsburgh’s latest production, God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, as two married couples discuss a skirmish between their children. We have the humanitari…
Buckle up, kids. You’re in for one hell of a ride as Cup-a-Jo Productions presents their second installment of Unhinged, Pittsburgh’s ONLY immersive Halloween theatre event.Unhinged2 is…
What happened when Hamlet was at school–just before Shakespeare’s play begins? Well, Denmark’s Prince, Doctor Faustus, and Martin Luther walk into a classroom… The Pittsburgh premier…
There is a particular fondness in my heart for hearing someone bellow at a person for being “an old poop.” A term of endearment rather than of malice or mockery, the chirping out of “y…
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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…
Reflecting the turbulent and changing times of the Renaissance, Pittsburgh Savoyard’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid dishes up…
Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts (COPA) Dance Program opened their 2018-19 season with Contemporary Choreographers the first of six programs. This offering is fou…
I’ve been talking to friends recently about the “should people still do this show?” question. Does the show in question have a place in the climate of the world, is it still relevant a…
I was pretty stoked to get to see She Kills Monsters at Pitt last week, not because I’m into Dungeons & Dragons (never played it myself), but because I’m a huge geek and was excited …
