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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:33PM[SHARE]Quiet no longer, the Carrie Furnaces National Historical Landmark is the the site of intriguing and inspired events. As the Rivers of Steel Heritage Site website says, “While production ma…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:45PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2019
PICT Classic Theater’s third and final production of their 2018-2019 season will be The Heiress, written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Adapted from the novel, Washington Square by Henry Jame…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2019
By Eva Phillips There is a story a within a story happening in In the Time of the Butterflies, the ink bleeding through the cover of one story into the tremulously turned pages of the other.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2019
By Eva Phillips Imagine living the first day of the rest of your life every damn day. Imagine meeting your plucky yet exhausted husband and your unwieldy, pot-loving son anew every damn day,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2019
By Ringa Sunn The Pittsburgh CLO has a unique program called SPARK. The basic idea behind the program is to give writers a supportive environment to create small-cast musicals. The Double-Th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2019
By Brian Pope Faith is in the eye of the beholder. It is an abstract concept. It is reliant on context. It is difficult to hold on to when the harsh realities become overwhelming. The conseq…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2019
By Brian Pope Conventional wisdom dictates that you should never meet your idols. You run the risk of said idols failing to meet the stratospheric expectations you set for their personalitie…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2019
For its second and last Resident Artist production of the winter, Pittsburgh Opera will present the local premiere of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied, beginning Saturday, February 23, at the co…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2019
By Tyler Prah The National Institute of Health reports that 1 in 5 adults within the United States (over 40 million) is facing mental illness. This fails to account for the worsening trend i…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:49PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2019
By Linda Harcom There are times when I go to the theatre and I am truly amazed at the level of talent we have in our area. Saturday night was one of those times, when I attended Split Stage…
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