Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Reviewed by Ralph Leary As every new parent knows, babies don’t come with an owner’s manual. Books stores are filled with shelves of advice and guidance, and thousands of sites are jus…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips Obsession and compulsion are curious things. Often, there is an ascetic sterility that’s assumed—fastidiously organizing all the marginalia of one’s existence so nothin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
By Eva Phillips Dungeons and Dragons (D&D, colloquially) has achieved and maintained a level of popularity, notoriety and infamy since its creation in 1974 that is just as grandiose as t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2020
By Cayleigh Boniger With the resounding success of the U.S. Women’s soccer team and their dramatic win of the World Cup, Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan have become household names. But wh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
By Brian Pope Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The patriarch of a white (usually Southern) family dies. This tragic inevitability sets his family (primarily his adult children) on …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2020
I don’t believe there was a more viscerally tempestuous and discombobulated time in my young life than when I was fully immersed in team sports. Questionably coordinated and ravaged by …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:29AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2020
Pittsburgh Opera’s “Second Stage Production,” always a sure sign that spring is around the corner, and this year Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi’s The Last American Hammer, will have …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Once more, Shammen McCune is immersed in an iconic Shakespearean role. In 2017, McCune portrayed Lady Capulet in PICT Classic Theater’s Romeo and Juliet. In 2019, she inhabited Caliba…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:39PM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips Selling audiences on a musical that delves into the excruciating morass a woman traverses as she faces grief, mental illness, a stymied marriage, and a romance, of sort, with…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2020
As is customary once its current season is at the midway point, Pittsburgh Opera has made public details on the works to be presented during the next season – the company’s 82nd. The l…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2020
On exceptionally rare occasions Pittsburgh hears the premiere of an opera. Operas in English translations are more common. But it’s a safe bet that the English language premiere of The …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2020
By Eva Phillips Let’s not beat around the bush here (yes, that’s a hair pun right off the bat, but I think it’s the apropos mood for the show)—HAIR is fundamentally chaotic. Which is…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2020
Next up at Pittsburgh Opera is George Frideric Handel’s Alcina – a baroque work that, while centuries old, is anything but “time honored.” The opera (“Alcheenah” to American spea…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:58AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2020
2019 was a preponderance of things: chaotic, joyous, concerning, impeaching, meteorologically unpredictable, mournful, hilarious, and so on. But in the sea of adjectives, expletives, and oth…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2019
By Eva Phillips There’s an inescapable dread and ennui that comes with the holiday season. If the despotic demands to buy the best gifts, prepare the best meals, and have the best life-cha…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2019
By Eva Phill;ipsWe exist in a remarkable sort of renaissance for musical theater. Indeed, the past 10 to 15 years has been characterized by an abundance of shows that successfully marry the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:06PM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips It is surprising how a horrific accident or cruel twist of fate can catapult a career. Just ask Buddy Holly, or Lynyrd Skynyrd, or Otis Redding. Or ask the strapping young la…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 24, 2019
By Eva Phillips Transcendentalism undergoes many changes as humans evolve. Whether this transcendentalism manifests the thirst to conquer the elements by mastering a flying apparatus, or dev…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:20PM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2019
By Brian Pope The timeless compositions of Alan Menken have been the heartbeat of many memorable musical tales dealing with the themes of duty, love, and morality. Should Ariel abandon her f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:46AM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2019
By Eva Phillips The ways girls behave and the things they do to one another within the overwhelming hives of school, their social structures, and their own minds is the source of great, and …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2019
By Eva Phillips In remarks discussing the nature of violent and racist language, Claudia Rankine cited the post-structural linguistic semiotics of fellow intellectual Judith Butler, stating,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:02AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2019
By Eva Phillips Harper York, not unlike two infamously fabled star cross’d lovers, had a feverish, impassioned vision that she was driven to bring to life. Thankfully, unlike those two lov…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2019
By Eva Phillips Maybe Sweeney Todd isn’t being egregiously hyperbolic when he says there is a place in the world full of shit called London. The plague looms heavy; perfidious law-makers a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:57PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2019
Shakespeare’s Will. Perhaps the two-word title of Quantum Theatre’s autumn 2019 production sums up what many people think they know about the playwright’s wife. That very document and …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:35PM[SHARE] Saturday evening, November 9, will mark an important milestone in the long history of Pittsburgh Opera, when the curtain goes up on Florencia en el Amazonas, the first-ever Spanish-langua…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 3, 2019
By Eva Phillips I first encountered Lisa Kron’s remarkable, one-person “show,” 2.5 Minute Ride, as a referential framework characteristically unconventional mechanisms through which qu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2019
By Brian Pope It’s not hyperbole, nor am I ashamed to tell you that, since first watching the film in 2004, I have fantasized about seeing the musical adaptation of Mean Girls. Everything …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 26, 2019
By Eva Phillips So much of the history women are forced to learn, accept, and retell is conceived in terms of what is done to our bodies and what our bodies can handle. How fertile are we? H…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:26PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2019
By Eva Phillips Good fences make good neighbors, and sturdy walls can make the most combustible of romances—just don’t expect those romances to be as sturdy or reliable. Theatre Factory…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2019
By Brian Pope They don’t call it the nuclear family for nothing. Just ask the Goodmans. Dan, Diana, Natalie, Gabe. “Father, mother, sister, brother cheek to cheek.†Or so Diana s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:46PM[SHARE]By Casey Cunningham Warning: The following review contains spoilers for the play Medea but, not, Not Medea. (That is likely the last bad joke I will make.) This is not a show about Medea, de…
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