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In the past few years drag culture has begun to stake its place in the public eye. Drag queens have, of course, been around forever but shows like Rupaul’s Drag Race have provided recent i…
I stumbled upon a conversation rather surreptitiously the other day at a coffee shop, feigning productivity and industriousness, that centered around theatre and its import to those ensconce…
It’s especially moving to revisit this particular geography—a place once so painful, and so overwhelming, and to so tangibly get to recognize the distance one travels in life, especially…
Karen Baum infuses the title character of Shirley Valentine with the spunkiness we’ve come to expect from this versatile Pittsburgh-based actor in PICT Classic Theatre’s season opener, r…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a better representation of new and diverse theatre than City Theatre. For their upcoming 2016-17 season, City Theatre has lined up six newer plays by playwrig…
The New Hazlett Theater’s CSA series is distinguishing itself as a unique and innovative performance series for artists in the Pittsburgh area. The series is named after the Community Supp…
Longevity and loyalty weave strong bonds, so as the venerable Pittsburgh Savoyards begin their 79th season, it’s clear to one of Pittsburgh’s longest running companies. When it comes to …
At last, our hot and humid dog days of summer are yielding to fall, bringing with it quite an interesting range of offerings for musicals in the Steel City this season. We’ve got a bit of …
The culture of a theater is dictated by hundreds of elements, one of the most significant of which is its size. Any theater worth its merit has a soul, a family, a crew, and, not insignifica…
To open its 78th season, Pittsburgh Opera will present the first of four performances of Verdi’s tuneful warhorse, La Traviata, on October 8, at 8:00 p.m. at the Benedum. The work is well …
Wayne Brinda has his wife to thank for giving him the push to start the Prime Stage Theatre Company in 1995. Brinda, had been working for a grant funded company that was facing financial har…
A letter from the Editor, To our fantastic readers, We’ve done it; we made it through another Pittsburgh summer. Summer 2016 was a very big season for us. Not only did we review 34 shows a…
As the wind and the leaves begin to carry us into Fall, the Pittsburgh dance world is leaping into this season with some truly intriguing and exciting work! To give everyone a little taste o…
Shakespeare. What a hack, right? He forms a few couplets; uses iambic pentameter as a parlor trick; creates a convoluted plot a la Larry David that utilizes misunderstandings, unjustified …
September 1, 2016 was opening night of the 26th annual Pittsburgh New Works Festival. The tiny lobby of Carnegie Stage was full of chatter. I saw Lora Oxenreiter, all smiles, sitting nea…
It’s a new day and a new venue for PICT Classic Theatre. “If you want immediacy, you have to change,” says Artistic and Executive Director Alan Stanford. Now the 19-year-old company mo…
This Saturday marks the beginning of the 12th annual Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks show; this year, they’ll be presenting one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies, The Comedy of Erro…
True confession: I wasn’t initially thrilled at the prospect of attending a two and half hour musical about a man trapped in a cave in rural Kentucky. To me, the premise was dubious at bes…
On a rainy Sunday I sat down with Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) director, Lora Oxenreiter. A board member for well over a decade, Lora instantly began talking about the time commitm…
There is a certain, almost ineffable, quality of striking mimesis that courses through the entirety of The Summer Company’s staging of Christopher Durang’s 1978 bizarrely (at times even …
Audacious drag queens, a surreal reimagining of The Tempest, the devastatingly pointed Harriet Beecher Stowe slave narrative, and the indomitable grimy charm of a deaf and blind pinball wiza…
At the 70th annual Tony Awards, seven alumni of the Carnegie Mellon University school of Drama were nominated for various awards from Best Costume Design of a Musical to Best Performance by …
College campuses throughout the city are springing back to life with students moving into their dorms, buying books and preparing for another semester of learning. With schools gearing up fo…
Red Masquers, Duquesne University’s theater program and Pittsburgh’s longest running amateur theater begins a new season this fall with a host of new productions. Besides several brand n…
Inspired by success and tradition, Pitt Stages launches a season that reflects the aspirations of the University of Pittsburgh’s diverse student body beginning on October 6. The production…
