Wednesday, October 9, 2019
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.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2019
By Eva Phillips Randa is an unstoppable career woman whose prosperous career as an architect has just been, well, stopped after an unfortunate (but justifiable) at-work eruption. Dot is a vi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
By Eva Phillips The first time I ever encountered Cabaret, I was a severely depressed 19-year-old, being moved to tears in a Dunkin Donuts at 2 AM as I watched Bob Fosse-directed, spectacula…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2019
By Miriah Auth On Saturday, August 10th, performing artists took the stage at Off The Wall Productions in sweats and warm-up clothes only to walk out the theater exit. They led the audience …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
By Eva Phillips The unpleasantries and discomforts of growing old, being financially disenfranchised, being a woman in a patriarchal world (and so on, and so forth) really go down much smoot…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
We limit the rich potentiality of our identities when we adhere to constructs or conceive of the self as static. Whether we render the components of our identity as parallel structures that …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:32PM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips It is unsurprising that Goethe makes an appearance, in the beautiful yet eviscerating coming-of-age musical Spring Awakening. After all, the inimitable musical, with music by…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2019
By Eva Phillips Overly melancholy Irish folk music really does something to me. Rousing, but also melancholy, Eastern European folk music REALLY does something to me. The two musical cosmose…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2019
By Eva Phillips There is a particularly arresting moment in folkLAB’s newest production, Nicole Gallagher’s mija: one bitch’s tale, that for the sake of the integrity of the story, and…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
By Brian Pope They say that youth is wasted on the young. Well, I don’t know much about the “They” who coined that cliche, but I am sure that They have not yet seen Alumni Theatre Comp…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:05AM[SHARE] A season of uncommon women and others take Quantum Theatre audiences from a Chilean peña, to Shakespeare’s hometown, to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The journey during Quantum’s 29t…
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