Sunday, June 29, 2025
By BOB HOOVER Head to the South Park Theatre and turn your watch back 60 years. It’s 1961, the Steelers practiced across the street at the South Park fairgrounds, boys rubbed Wildroot Cr…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:37PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
By BOB HOOVER The Trial is a theatrical adaptation by Nick Gill of the Franz Kafka novel. Like Kafka’s protagonist, Joseph K., we know very little about the world of this curious pro…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 17, 2025
This review has been updated with new production photographs. By BOB HOOVER Many plays have been written to showcase a particular actor. British playwright Christopher Hampton drew on an o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2025
By BOB HOOVER There’s no more “Irish” in PICT, the reborn theater company that survived the departures of founder Andrew Paul and his successor Allan Stanford. There’s plenty of e…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2025
By BOB HOOVER It’s the third time around for Edward Albee‘s 63-year-old masterwork, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. Previously produced here in 19…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2025
By BOB HOOVER Quantum Theatre is staging more than just a play, but a theatrical coup. Securing The Return of Benjamin Lay and its actor, Mark Povinelli, Quantum brings this play from it…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2024
By BOB HOOVER The patriarchy has taken punches to the midsection in two recent productions on our regional stages. City Theatre last month presented Salina Fillinger‘s farce, POTUS Or Beh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2024
By Bob Hoover Don’t you love farce? Of course you do, and City Theatre is giving you one of the most raunchy, pratfall-filled comedies ever staged in Pittsburgh. With its awkward subti…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2024
By BOB HOOVER Atmosphere and acting. Quantum Theatre’s wholehearted embrace of Eugene O’Neill’s last play blends the cricket-filled night of a wooded hill overlooking the Allegheny R…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2024
By JESSICA NEU Liberty Magic continues its annual Spotlight on the Burgh series this week, featuring local Pittsburgh magicians to conclude Liberty’s magical season. For its second week…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2024
By BOB HOOVER “They staged a play, and a party broke out,” said a patron at City Theatre on March 8 at the Pittsburgh premiere of Fat Ham, the boisterous, in-your-face version of Hamle…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 24, 2024
Dominique Morisseau‘s prize-winning Skeleton Crew and Intimate Apparel, an early work by Lynn Nottage, opened this past week at barebones productions and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, resp…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 11, 2023
By BOB HOOVER The murderers in Assassins seem pretty commonplace in these days of constant reports of violence as they point their guns at the audience. But these killers and would-be assa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:07PM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2023
By BOB HOOVER In this unusual, smartly mounted musical production about the lives of Expressionist painter Marc Chagall and his writer wife, Bella, a knowledge of Yiddish would help a lot. L…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
By BOB HOOVER How many versions of Hamlet have we seen? In my life, at least a dozen. (I was an English major). My previous was at the Globe Theatre in London, a fast-paced, almost breathl…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2023
By BOB HOOVER Defeated, angry Black men are at the center of numerous August Wilson plays. Still, none is angrier and more dangerous than Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, no…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2023
By BOB HOOVER Plaudits go to the South Park Theatre for taking on this difficult play about American history by playwright and screenwriter Melanie Marnich. Known for her work on the HBO s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2023
By Bob Hoover Somewhere in the Russian countryside, a family has gathered at its estate to figure out its future. Its most esteemed member, Serebryakov, has lost his professorship while his …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 19, 2023
By BOB HOOVER City Theatre continues its run of topical dramas with a spirited, smart production of Karen Zacarias’s Native Gardens, a play that has the elements of a TV sitcom, but turns …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:22PM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2022
By Bob Hoover Lorraine Hansberry’s legendary play about segregation in Chicago reached Broadway in 1959. Sixty-three years later, a Bloomberg News report concludes: “About 400,000 Black …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:20PM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2022
By Bob Hoover After The Piano Lesson, the 1986 play that earned August Wilson his second Pulitzer Prize, he was ready to move on to the next chapter in his Pittsburgh cycle. The inspiration …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:58PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2022
Reviewed by Bob Hoover Playwright David Mamet recently wrote that “theater on Broadway has largely been replaced by pageantry.” Audiences “come to Broadway exactly as they come to Disn…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 19, 2022
Reviewed By Bob Hoover The spirit of that hopeful Hollywood cliché, “Let’s use the barn and put on a show!” runs through the energetic production of Company by the Riverfront Theater …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:08PM[SHARE]Friday, February 25, 2022
By Bob Hoover Let’s face it. Hardly anything new can be said about Hamilton. Now six years old, Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s masterpiece is the most honored and successful musical in American th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 5, 2021
By Bob Hoover The filmed version of this 2015 production, shown Oct. 3 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, seems like an artifact from long ago when unmasked audiences sat within feet of the stage …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 11, 2021
Hamlet fights a Noisy Schenley Plaza in Oakland By Bob Hoover One of last year’s most highly praised books was “Hamnet” by the British novelist Maggie O’Farrell. Hamnet was one of th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 17, 2021
The Quantum crew’s production of An Odyssey might be one of the company’s most creative ones yet. Reviewed by Bob Hoover With thanks to Stephen King, “Everything old is new again.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 22, 2021
By Bob Hoover Old cases never die as long as Dr. Cyril Wecht is around. The former Allegheny County coroner, now 90, has been commenting on a variety of controversial killings for years, beg…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 23, 2021
THE CURRENT WARQuantum Theatre at Westinghouse Park, North Point BreezeWritten by Michael MitnickDirected by Tome CousinRuns through June 27, 2021 Reviewed By Bob Hoover Carefully, Quantum T…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 6, 2021
THE CURRENT WAR by Quantum Theatre at Westinghouse Park, North Point Breeze Written by Michael Mitnick Directed by Tome Cousin Runs through June 27, 2021 Reviewed By Bob Hoover Carefully, Qu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2020
City Theatre’s latest production begins with the flushing of a “Pittsburgh toilet.” This inside joke puts us in an unfinished basement to find a disheveled bare-chested Martin Giles st…
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