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Once again, off the WALL Productions and Carnegie Stage have succeeded in showcasing a performance unlike any other. This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, a one- woman show created and …
Opening in the midst of their 68th season at the Little Lake Theatre in Canonsburg is Loot: Joe Orton’s challenging dark satire on authority, the Catholic Church, rituals of death and poli…
The Hatch Arts Collective is far from the first people to draw a direct line between the Earth and the complex lives of its most pollutant children, but they may very well be the first peopl…
I’ll be harangued if I describe this play like a Disney movie. But that’s so much what it is! A lovely Disney movie! A callback to the heyday of Disney movies! An Aladdin or Beau…
At the heart of most scholarship surrounding horror stories there lies a single question: when we observe a monster, what is it were seeing, really? Are we more afraid of Frankenstein’s mo…
First things first. Pittsburgh-born playwright August Wilson’s Seven Guitars matters now. So, get a ticket, go up to the house where his family lived on The Hill. Sit in the yard and hear …
The Pittsburgh CLO wraps up their 70th season at the Benedum with an enchanting production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece South Pacific. On a remote tropic…
Today we are engaged in the longest running war in U.S. history and still struggle with issues of racism, gender equality and class disparity. Question: Can a vintage musical address the…
“Every story, new or ancient……all are tales of human failing, all are tales of love at heart.” Originally debuted on Broadway in 2000 and the winner of four Tony Awards, Elton John…
While I sat in the New Hazlett Theater to see the opening show of American Idiot, back in my small West Virginia hometown the community theater had their opening show of Grease. They are put…
A man, rises to power from nothing, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers along the way, whose fame and status eventually became the center of controversy for his inseparable fate with …
“Et tu, Brute!” You may recall that line from your high school Latin class. Until I attended the Throughline Theater’s opening night of Julius Cesar last week, I was convinced that I h…
Chicago’s Rough House Theater is taking their production of Ubu the King on tour and will be in Pittsburgh for one night only as part of their 8 city tour! This Sunday, July 31st, Mike Ol…
It’s all over now, and truth be told, I miss it already. The season was extended this year, but somehow seemed shorter than previous ones. This is easily explained by the fact that each su…
Oh, how does one describe Mr. Holmes? It’s seems like such a simple thing to do, but it’s so terribly complicated. To capture the man’s essence in a review would take too long and ulti…
In the words of Tristan LaMarque, captain of the Anne- Marie, “Tonight we celebrate the birth of our fleet. Tonight we celebrate us”. Fitting words for the premiere performance of A Pira…
Richard Strauss’ rarely heard Die schweigsame Frau (“The Silent Woman”), received the first of two performances at the Falk Auditorium of Winchester Thurston last night, as Opera Theat…
Connor McCanlus has performing and Pittsburgh ingrained in his DNA. Since his family returned to the area when he was three years old, McCanlus has lived in every corner of the city and coul…
As Opera Theater of Pittsburgh’s “SummerFest” performances draw to a close, Night Caps, a series of five mini-operas that – combined – run for but an hour or so, received the first…
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dimitrie Lazich about this year’s “SummerFest.” The gifted young baritone has proven to be a comic and vocal delight as the slightly buffoo…
This show is magnificent. It’s heartbreaking in the best way. Cathartic gold, Midwestern tea. It’s chock full of that Kansas-grade, square-state repression: a good device to wind u…
If you’re of a certain age then you probably think the movie Shrek is a classic. And you’re correct: Shrek was a movie that mainstream audiences had never seen before. The hero was disgu…
To fans and students of the theater, Shakespeare is a lot of things: the world’s most brilliant cartographer of human emotion, one of the greatest playwrights of all time, and the genesis …
Last night Opera Theater of Pittsburgh’s “SummerFest” gave the first of three performances of Georg Friedrich Händel’s Giulio Cesare, presented in English, as is customary with the …
The show began innocently enough—Billy, a young man, impulsively stowaways on an ocean liner to England in hopes of winning the heart of a young lady, Hope, who happens to be engaged to …
