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Quiet no longer, the Carrie Furnaces National Historical Landmark is the the site of intriguing and inspired events. As the Rivers of Steel Heritage Site website says, “While production ma…
12 Peers Theater’s latest installment of Mythburgh took place on April 10 at brillobox in Lawrenceville. Mythburgh is a monthly series of short plays that revolve around the creepy, wei…
PICT Classic Theater’s third and final production of their 2018-2019 season will be The Heiress, written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Adapted from the novel, Washington Square by Henry Jame…
At City Theatre’s production of Jen Silverman’s The Roommate, the program cover is a sketch of a tipped over coffee cup, the spill spreading into the shape of a pot leaf. Before the show…
By Eva Phillips There is a story a within a story happening in In the Time of the Butterflies, the ink bleeding through the cover of one story into the tremulously turned pages of the other.…
Saturday March 2, I was lucky to get a ticket at Carnegie Stage for Off the WALL Productions U.S. premiere of Mumburger. I have been looking forward to the show since the fall, when I met …
By Eva Phillips Imagine living the first day of the rest of your life every damn day. Imagine meeting your plucky yet exhausted husband and your unwieldy, pot-loving son anew every damn day,…
Bright. A blank screen or an even smaller blank screen. The challenge: Make sense out of 280 characters. George Seurat is notable for employing the meticulous painting technique known as poi…
By Ringa Sunn The Pittsburgh CLO has a unique program called SPARK. The basic idea behind the program is to give writers a supportive environment to create small-cast musicals. The Double-Th…
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first local performance of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied last evening, and about as many people as could fit into the company’s George R. White Studio were taken o…
By Brian Pope Faith is in the eye of the beholder. It is an abstract concept. It is reliant on context. It is difficult to hold on to when the harsh realities become overwhelming. The conseq…
By Brian Pope Conventional wisdom dictates that you should never meet your idols. You run the risk of said idols failing to meet the stratospheric expectations you set for their personalitie…
The Legend of Georgia McBride traces one man’s journey from lackluster Elvis impersonator to lascivious drag queen. Casey (Andrew Swackhamer) is an accidental drag queen, if there is such …
Duquesne University’s Red Masquers current production is Luigi Pirandello’s play, Six Characters in Search of an Author. This absurdist metatheatrical play tackles the struggle betwee…
For its second and last Resident Artist production of the winter, Pittsburgh Opera will present the local premiere of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied, beginning Saturday, February 23, at the co…
By Tyler Prah The National Institute of Health reports that 1 in 5 adults within the United States (over 40 million) is facing mental illness. This fails to account for the worsening trend i…
By Linda Harcom There are times when I go to the theatre and I am truly amazed at the level of talent we have in our area. Saturday night was one of those times, when I attended Split Stage�…
Anton Chekhov’s advice to playwrights – “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there” – fin…
Life can be a constant succession of internal and external turmoil that can be emotionally and spiritually crushing; yet one can always find joy, beauty and triumphs to celebrate if only we …
By Eva Phillips What we have stored as memory is vital. Everything present, everything “now” is chaos. This is statement that is at once a quixotically simple, irrefutable truth, and und…
Cathy and Jamie are married. She acts at a community theater in Ohio. He is a best-selling author. Cathy arrives home and finds a letter with her name on it. Jamie has just left home and …
Pittsburgh Opera, shortly after announcing that its Education and Outreach programs have earned the company a prestigious spot as a finalist in the 2019 International Opera Awards, has relea…
After an exciting fall semester of main stage plays that included She Kills Monsters and Much Ado About Nothing, UP Stages is back with spring semester offerings that will challenge and upli…
PICT Classic Theater’s second play of their 2018-2019 season is an original by Pittsburgh playwright, Ray Werner. Werner’s Run the Rabbit Path looks at a family facing the death of a lov…
The Tempest at Pittsburgh Public Theatre is a brave new production for our times. “Past is prologue.” So Shakespeare’s 1611 text benefits from all that has come before, reflecting the …
