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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Drag and performance art offer some of the most cleverly-referential, divinely carnal, lavishly absurdist, outlandish, and stunning performances and characters that enrich and complicate the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2019
By Casey Cunningham A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler is a show about loves. Old loves, young Loves, wrong loves, right loves, and all the various kinds of love in be…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:12PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2019
By Caleigh Boniger Pittsburgh Fringe Festival is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get. Every year there is always a healthy mix of improvisation, comedy, dance,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:52PM[SHARE]By Brian Pope My day of seeing shows in the 2019 Pittsburgh Fringe Festival was indicative of the event’s change in locale. The proceedings gained a great deal of intimacy in their move fr…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2019
By Alex Walsh It’s that time of year again – Fringe Festival is back! The annual smorgasbord of independent theater and art always exposes me to a lot of new things, and this year that…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2019
By Eva Phillips The portentous, Two Lines of Lola Hughes’ short but impactful play cause a whole lot of intersection and collision for being so starkly parallel. Two Lines is, of course…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2019
By Brian Pope Can you name a place more magical than the emerald-spangled, poppy-pink land of Oz where witches, wizards, and munchkins (Oh my!) call home? It’s a place where not only the f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 30, 2019
By Eva Phillips Beth Corning knows precisely what she’s doing. Even when breaching the borderless, lawless, and seemingly indiscernible realm of the unknown, the unconscious/subconscious, …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:25PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2019
By Casey Cunningham Like most things in life, attempting to write a review about a show like Brave Space is an exercise in risk taking, in trial and error, about falling flat on your face an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
By Eva Phillips Our bodies have ways of reminding us of their autonomy. Like vestiges of unseen worlds, our bodies are intrinsically linked to untraceable sensations and unutterable memories…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2019
Audiences worldwide have flocked to Puccini’s perennial favorite since the 1890s, making it a safe bet that the days of writing anything new about La bohème expired decades ago. So it…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
By Tyler Prah When presented with an unconventional space, innovation is dire to tailor a show to the environment. Fortunately, Pittsburgh Classic Players handles this task with ease, conver…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2019
By Brian Pope The following is a piece I’d like to call “A Friday Evening in Point Park University’s Gorgeous New PNC Theater.” It may not be my masterpiece. It probably won’t revo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2019
A Letter from the Editor, Friends, we have finally staggered our way through the unforgiving winter, plagued with days of 20 hours of darkness and a massively disappointing awards shows. Yet…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:02PM[SHARE]It is a rare instance in my life that my severe OCD, and my hopeless yet unapologetic love of theatre get to intersect so harmoniously as they do when I get to make a list of theatre things …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]Too often in constructing and pondering artistic criticism, I find myself hesitant or outright balking at the prospect of reviewing or discussing dance. Academically trained to understand an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]By Caleigh Boniger Within the first few minutes of the Pittsburgh Public’s production of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 –directed by Ted Pappas, former Public artistic directo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2019
The vibrant programming of Resonance Works | Pittsburgh is conceived by a woman on the move, Maria Sensi Sellner. Characteristic of her rise as a leading American conductor, she was one of s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:43PM[SHARE]As springtime edges its way closer, Little Lake Theater is making preparations for its 71st season, and with a collection of shows for adults and kids – there’s something for everyone! T…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:29PM[SHARE]Meteorological spring may still be a few weeks away, but the spring theatre season and it ’s crop of Tony Award-winning musicals is about to burst into full bloom. Our five picks are gener…
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