Front Porch Theatricals—three words have become synonymous with musical theatre prestige in the city of Pittsburgh—has more than fulfilled its ambitious mission statement over the last s…
“I guess I’d call it…an interactive Bingo comedy.” I’m sitting at a coffee shop in the North Side, typing away at first draft of my coverage for the 2017 Fringe Festival, which (fo…
Mention the CLO to most Pittsburghers’, and they think of the series of Broadway Musicals presented during the summer months at the Benedum. Some people will mention the CLO Cabaret at The…
Hearing Little Lake Theatre’s artistic director, Jena Oberg, talk about the theatre’s upcoming 70th anniversary makes you want to immediately join the Little Lake family. Little Lake is …
You can feel spring is just around the corner and the spring crop of musicals is about ready to bloom at our area theater companies. Our featured five, listed in order of opening dates, incl…
Inside Passage is the touching story of the search for beginnings, lost family members and lost ways of life told in an exciting and compelling way. It is an exciting and different evening o…
Producing new and adventurous works in unexpected spaces is for Karla Boos, artistic director of Quantum Theatre, but the tradition she has created thrives where you might least expect to ex…
The House of Bernarda Alba was the last play Federico Garcia Lorca wrote before his untimely death in 1936. The Spanish Civil War was just breaking out. Like many artists, Garcia Lorca suppo…
The Pittsburgh Public Theater announced their 2018/19 season at a member’s reception on Tuesday night. Board Chair Michael H. Ginsberg officially passed the baton from Ted Pappas, the re…
When trying to hear a song, watch a video, or learn more about the musical Oklahoma!, one cannot simply type the word “Oklahoma” into a search engine. There is something huge that diffe…
CMU Drama’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone is a high-energy fun-filled spoof of American musicals from the 1920s. It was created initially as a performance piece in 1997 for the s…
To enter the University of Pittsburgh’s production of Marie Antoinette in the Cathedral of Learning’s Studio Theater is to be confronted. Actors dressed alternately as nobles o…
We read a book, a character is described, we form a mental picture: how she moves, the timbre of her voice, the look in her eye. Some descriptive power is so vivid—theatrical even—that…
The question of Shakespeare’s continued relevance in the modern world is an inquiry that never fully quiets. After all, so much has changed across four centuries since William Shakespeare …
The Pittsburgh Opera world premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo’s Ashes & Snow last evening offered a number of novelties aside from being the first ever performance of the work. Operas featur…
The Theatre Factory production of A.R. Gurney ‘s Sylvia is a charming and funny story of a man, his wife, and the love triangle their new dog Sylvia creates. It’s the early 1990’s, and…
Stage 62 presents Madagascar A Musical Adventure. For the next two weekends, your favorite DreamWorks characters are live on stage, singing, dancing and cheering up and down the aisles of th…
For its second and final Resident Artist production of the winter months, Pittsburgh Opera will present Douglas J. Cuomo’s Ashes & Snow, beginning Saturday evening, February 17, at the…
Give me a little murder with my musical. Cynicism with my choreography. Horror with my harmonies. Camp with my catastrophes! Give me Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s goofy, bizarre, touchin…
For its 2018-’19 season – the company’s 80th – Pittsburgh Opera will offer a variety of productions sure to meet with just about any music lover’s taste. The four Benedum Center st…
A Devil Inside is an experiment in physicality. It’s an insane show; in that, it plays with the concept of ‘madness’. Though it’s very likable, almost cute, with how over the top…
What does one say about a show where the script was awful but the performance was incredible? Well, I guess the easy thing to say would be… We Will Rock You’s script was awful, but the p…
The first time I ever experienced true terror that wasn’t generated by my own imagination and confabulation, I was watching the original Evil Dead film while my parents were across the str…
Based on the award-winning novel by John Ball, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company opened a new adaptation of In The Heat Of The Night on February 2nd. After the story had found life thro…
Over the years, Superman and Spider-Man have faced many foes. Usually for the sake of a happy ending, they always prevail. But there’s one enemy that they’ve both suffered humiliating, p…