It is apropos, perhaps, that when entering the Artist’s Image Resource, I was tantalized by phenomenally raw pieces crafted by artists of varying levels of experience that lined the wall. …
Setting controls a play. It’s its backbone. This is particularly true when the setting contains an entire plot within a singular space. Also, particularly true when the audience feels …
College campuses in America are a hotbed of cultural discourse. As they should be. However, unlike the last hundred years of existing as a space for entire generations to generate a stance o…
Day 3! The last day of my first Fringe Festival! And it was a beautiful one. Finally, I could happily live the dream of comfortably biking around town seeing plays. On Friday it was all drea…
How does one continue the timeless story of a boy who never grows up? Steven Spielberg’s Hook notwithstanding, the obvious answer to that question is to explore his past. And that’s just…
The conclusion of my Fringe Festival experience took place in the chilly Artist’s Image Resource building, a small yet colorful space dotted with anti-Trump art pieces. I would be seeing 5…
As a first time attendee and critic of the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, I had a certain set of expectations in terms of tone for the shows I was about to see, expectations that were exploded …
Amid the dismally, dreary haze of Friday evening, there was a certain excited hum and rattle that illuminated the day as it settled into dusk. This excitement was the anxious anticipation an…
A bright, beautiful Sunday afternoon was the perfect backdrop for my second day at Pittsburgh Fringe. The glorious sunlight showed the blurred lines separating the performances in the festiv…
My Sunday Fringe viewing took a dive into the absurd. I began my afternoon by catching One Man Apocalypse Now in the smelly basement of St. Mary’s Lyceum. Full disclosure: at the conclusio…
Fringe stops for no woman, and today the train kept on chugging. After the high of yesterday’s performances, I was trying to keep my energy up, but I will admit that I was a little tucke…
These days, Jed Allen Harris says it takes a certain kind of script to draw him from the flexible confines of academic theater. He helped lay the foundation of today’s dynamic Pittsburgh�…
Fringe Day Two kicked off with my extremely questionable choice to bike over to the north side despite it not being nearly as warm as I wanted it to be. After stopping at James Street for my…
Whereas the Fringe line up on Friday was a combination of plays in both the dramatic and comedic vein, the line up today was much more oriented towards what one would colloquially describe a…
Douglas Stafford, the writer and star of The Bad Idea Variety Show: My Lack of Social Life delivered a meta-style show at AIR Saturday night about what he describes as the truth of entertain…
Thank god (whichever deity of your choosing) for Google maps. Not only did it help guide me into the city as I drove in from the lovely environs of dreary Erie, but it also got me to the v…
Fringe is such a strange festival. It’s really a concoction of the eccentric, a bumbling mind manifested into the sphere of Deutschtown that is Pittsburgh’s North Shore. There’s …
If you’ve been keeping up with our coverage of the Fourth Annual Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, you’re probably assuming that this is also my first time attending such an event. If you did …
Cup-A-Jo Productions, a Pittsburgh-based artist collaborative, returned to this year’s Fringe Festival with another challenging piece: Teeth & Sinew. At the beginning, we see two figur…
The evening began with the ridiculous but thoroughly entertaining one man show Laundry Night by Captain Ambivalent. Captain Ambivalent sings with the accompaniment of a gold accordion, t…
Although the Fringe Festival is now in its fourth year, this is the first for me. If we’re being honest, it’s actually my first theater festival. So I’m easing into it. Only two shows …
This is the first Fringe Festival that I ever attended so I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. With today’s four plays, I got a little bit of everything including drama, comedy, cross-d…
Alan Stanford’s new adaption of the classic Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex is a modern day masterpiece. Sometimes you just know within the first few minutes that this is really going to be good…
Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, was presented for the first time this season Saturday night at the Benedum, and a gratifyingly large crowd packed the auditorium to enjoy a truly r…
Jill Jeffrey was a like many young actors, making the rounds at auditions and giving little thought to children’s theater–until she stepped on stage in Journey Back to Oz at Gemini Theat…