Wednesday, July 31, 2019
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2019
By Eva Phillips A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is one of those shows that vividly proves that the Greco-Romans of the B.C. era really knew how to live with drama nerd flair. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2019
By Casey Cunningham How do you save a person who doesn’t want to be saved? How do you convince a person that life is worth living when life has never once been kind? Is it nobler, (to para…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:04PM[SHARE]By Eva Phillips Pittsburgh Classic Player’s A Streetcar Named Desire is not an easy thing to sit through. This is in no way a reflection on the quality of the show as a whole—which is ex…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2019
By Eva Phillips There is an embarrassing truth that should be addressed before I embark on a review of Stage 62’s Mamma Mia! I could write about Mamma Mia! in my sleep—not just because o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2019
By Eva Phillips Mob bosses. Murderous fathers. Ill-fated romance. Deceit and chicanery. Florida. Moliere. If these somewhat incongruous elements seem like a combustive recipe for intrigue an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2019
Tennessee Williams is a master of diffusely permeating the social consciousness and cultural lexicon. His inimitable style is why his works are held in the esteemed canon for theatre and fil…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:03AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2019
In 1999, at the zenith of my adolescent paranoia that was fixated on the imminent cataclysm of Y2K, a film called Blast From the Past spoke to me and my fretfulness. The film centered around…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2019
Pittsburgh Festival Opera, our local “Intimate Opera Theater,” has added much to the summers’ musical offerings for some years now, and the ambitious company’s new season begins F…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2019
By Linda Harkcom Last weekend I was assigned to cover Split Stage’s production of Titanic The Musical at The Lamp Theatre in Irwin. I’ll admit that I didn’t know much about the show, o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:37AM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2019
By Eva Phillips Gone with the Wind was the perfect storm of an unfathomably successful novel, insatiable industry hype, and the biggest names (and egos) in Hollywood in one tempestuous press…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2019
A Letter from the Editor, Well, y’all, we’ve fought our way tooth and nail to the golden promise land of Summer. The Spring saw some phenomenal changes and growth for all of us at PGH…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:13PM[SHARE] Monsters are real. Danger can happen. And theatre as we know it will never be the same. Don’t fret. This isn’t some Orson Welles-esque announcement warning of Godzilla’s doomed fora…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]Pittsburgh is a city that is proverbially filled to brim with theatre companies and artistic collectives. Which is by no means a gripe—that there are well over twenty theatre companies, a …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:22PM[SHARE]Kinetic Theatre is one of the few companies in Pittsburgh that prospers on the nomadic model. Helmed by tireless and resourceful Producing Artistic Director Andrew Paul, who has directed all…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:36PM[SHARE]Oklahoma! at Pittsburgh CLO (June 21st-June 30th at the Benedum) I have a morbid fascination with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 Musical Oklahoma! (their first ever musical collaboration, …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]Soulful tributes to some of the world’s most beloved–and sometimes enigmatic–singers are the artistic specialty of Daphne Alderson. Aptly described as a chanteuse, Alderson far ex…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:09PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2019
For over thirty years, Point Park University has hosted International Summer Dance, a six-week intensive program offering conservatory style training to students in Ballet, Jazz, and Mode…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2019
By Linda Harkcom The Pittsburgh CLO is putting the fun in musical theater this summer by producing the hilarious Spamilton An American Parody at the Greer Cabaret Theater in Pittsburgh. I re…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2019
By Eva Phillips A surreal comparative train of thought I often entertain is pondering the striking differences between my father’s world and my own. When I turned 21 in 2012, I was paying …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2019
By Eva Phillips Imagine the most elaborate world you can. Think of “elaborate” in this context in its strictest biological meaning—producing a new substance from original constituents …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2019
By Eva Phillips The complexities and nuances of Shakespeare’s tremendous tragedy Richard III are apparent to even those uninitiated to Shakespeare’s antics. Grandiloquent as it is intri…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2019
By Eva Phillips Two fundamental queries for any devoted theatre-goer or dramaturgically-minded individual should be “what does it mean to be a playwright” and “what constitutes a play?…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 4, 2019
Point Park University’s $74 million theater complex Downtown will be paying dividends during its second season of operation this fall. The shiny new space attracted one of the school’…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2019
By Chloe Kinnahan Attack Theatre has once again pushed the limits of movement, objects, and space in their latest performance, The Rube Goldberg Variations at the New Hazlett. Combining insp…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:17AM[SHARE]By Cayleigh Boniger There are some plays that are easy to distill into what is essentially a single essence: family drama, crisis of identity, agit prop. Paula Vogel’s Indecent, performe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2019
For the last offering of a season that seems to have just begun, Pittsburgh Opera will present Donizetti’s melodious and comic Don Pasquale – an 1834 opera buffa with a 1950’s Hollywoo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
Our teenage years are our most tempestuous and our most formative. We take advantage of our diminished inhibitions, delighting in perhaps reckless behavior. At the same time, we find ourselv…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2019
By Brian Pope In The Burdens, Jane and Mordy Berman’s bond as siblings is only as strong as their network connection. She’s a working mother on one coast. He’s a starving artist on ano…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2019
By Laura Caton Day three of Fringe Festival started off completely differently than any previous Fringe. Because it started in my home. Which isn’t to say I don’t usually start these day…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2019
By Eva Phillips Musical theatre camp (the aesthetic, not summer camp) is a certain audacious brand of camp that is not meant for everyone. Brash, flamboyant, micro-referential, and aggressi…
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