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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2019
This November, Pittsburgh Classic Players will tackle William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as the final show of their season of “Bad Romance.” This show will prove to be Pittsburgh C…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips The range of emotions and sentiments in the final program of Pittsburgh New Works Festival on display throughout the categorically eclectic array of three plays are profoundl…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:35AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2019
By Eva Phillips Poetry and myth are predicated on violence enacted upon women. Brutal possession, hostile silencing or neglect, hateful shame, and outright destruction of femininity drive so…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2019
The curtain goes up on Pittsburgh Opera’s 81st season beginning next Saturday evening, October 12, with the first of four performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:34PM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2019
By Eva Phillips You know what they say: it’s all fun and games until someone summons your dead spouse from the beyond. When novelist Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth (his second wife, n…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2019
By Brian Pope Even with their short run times, the plays that make up Program C of the 2019 Pittsburgh New Works Festival don’t pull any dramatic punches. Whether they’re revealing close…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:43PM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips The 70s and 80s were a macabre-surrealist paradise when it came to horror films. Even the Sparknote versions of these films are preposterously devious: A town ravaged by an u…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2019
By Eva Phillips There’s a ferocious coding that comes with being a marine. It transcends the coding that comes with any military regimentation. A marine will be the first to tell you that.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:09PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
On Saturday, Spetember 21, MOMIX will return to the Byham Theater at 8pm with Viva MOMIX, a compilation of works. “They’re relatively short, each piece has a beginning a middle and an en…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:34PM[SHARE]By Chloe Kinnahan Attack Theatre’s latest performance, Some Assembly Required, an evening that journeyed through the Warhol Museum, allowed audience members a wide window into the process …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
By Eva Phillips An embittered villain bent on vindication and clearing his literary reputation. A purgatorial lesson in the subtleties of the bard. A blind date that perhaps is not so oblivi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2019
By Eva Phillips There are fractious intersections in America’s fraught, tenuous, and often violent history, that defy readily accessible logic or confound the basic limitations of ethic…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:15PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2019
As technology advances, it’s undeniably woven more and more tightly into our everyday existence. We’re never without trusty virtual assistance in our every moment of need—though, as…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2019
By Eva Phillips The tides of change are cruel in the sleepy town of Mullingar. Anthony and Rosemary neighbors nestled in the bucolic Irish farmlands, have worked tirelessly to keep their far…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2019
By Brian Pope What’s better than one opening night? Four opening nights! For the last 29 years, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival has been a champion of the one act play. Each festival see…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips The balance of power is erratic and volatile. Can those who thirst for power and reign over others ever do so without corruption, or without the megrims of self-interest over…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2019
By Brian Pope In her ever increasingly maniacal efforts to cloister her son safely in the nest (or bubble, as it were), the conservatively hardwired Mrs. Livingston carefully curates (or rat…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:49PM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips At this point, writing a review of the astronomically popular and enormously profitable onstage adaptation of The Lion King feels a bit superfluous. 25 years after the world …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:29PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski’s lineup of plays for her second season at the Pittsburgh Public Theater seems at first glance to ramble all over the theatrical landscape. She rang…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:10PM[SHARE] “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!” Iconic. Evocative. Declarative. Historic. But even the canon, once considered untouchable, needs a little revamping and re-imagining.…
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