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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Discover What Lies “Downstairs….” At City Theatre by Bob Hoover

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…

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:19PM[SHARE]

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

City Theatre Hits Hard with “One Night in Miami…” by Bob Hoover

City Theatre is mounting one of its best productions in some time, but it runs only through Dec. 1, so put your Thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge and get to the South Side. One Night in M…

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]

“Dance Nation” by Bob Hoover

Patrick Jordan’s barebones productions hasn’t shied away from visceral drama, but it has its hands full with Dance Nation, Clare Barron’s smart, funny and insightful play about the man…

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:27AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Prime Stage Revives Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” by Bob Hoover

I’m not sure if high schoolers read Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter these days, or if they do, these woke teens would find extramarital sex as sinful as the Puritans. It’s telling that …

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:52PM[SHARE]

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Pittsburgh Playwright Theatre’s “Gem of the Ocean” Triumphs by Bob Hoover

A shaky sound system. Neighborhood kids shouting. Three quick explosions of firecrackers. Honking of car horns. Emergency sirens. A noisy low-flying helicopter. It was opening night and the …

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Carnegie Mellon Drama Presents “The Comedy of Errors” by Bob Hoover

This early (circa 1594) Shakespeare play is often presented as a broad farce with lots of slapstick, mugging, leering and physical hijinks. The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama show directed …

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]

Friday, April 12, 2019

PICT Takes on Henry James in “The Heiress” by Bob Hoover

“The only good thing in the story is the girl,” felt Henry James about his 1880 novel, Washington Square. He disliked the book, calling it “an unhappy accident.” “The girl” is Ca…

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]

Monday, February 11, 2019

“The Gun Show (Can We Talk About This?)” Sparks Dialogue on Gun Control by Bob Hoover

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…

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Coram Boy by Bob Hoover

For the opening production at the Pittsburgh Playhouse’s Highmark Theatre, director Tomé Cousins has chosen to stage Coram Boy, a British product adapted from a young-adult novel about s…

SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]

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