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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:21PM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2019
By Eva Phillips What we have stored as memory is vital. Everything present, everything “now” is chaos. This is statement that is at once a quixotically simple, irrefutable truth, and und…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
Pittsburgh Opera, shortly after announcing that its Education and Outreach programs have earned the company a prestigious spot as a finalist in the 2019 International Opera Awards, has relea…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:07AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2019
By Brian Pope Pittsburgh Winter 2019 has (so far) been very unkind to residents. It’s par for the course but distressing nonetheless. Unexpectedly though, the season and the city have been…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Mozart’s colossal Idomeneo, first heard on January 29, 1781 in Munich, is an opera with a history of “re-visitations” stretching back to the days of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Richard St…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2019
As the new year begins, exciting chapters are opening in the world of Pittsburgh in the Round, the comprehensive online magazine covering theatre, dance and opera for the Greater Pittsburgh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 12, 2019
By Helen Meade Pittsburgh Classic Players opened their first full season of plays with an appropriately-timed production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night…on Twelfth Night (Friday, …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:23PM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2019
January is a slow month in Pittsburgh for the opening dates of musicals except for the national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton at the Benedum through the end of the month. As Hamil…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 27, 2018
Well friends. 2018 is nearly over. It’s been a big year for us. We’ve welcomed a few newcomers to our writing team, expanded our coverage and written more than we’ve ever written! 184 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2018
To value ourselves as more than the sum of our parts is an abstraction that seems almost inconceivable. Allowing ourselves meaning that transcends the borders and limitations that, because o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
The Cultural District, its theaters and galleries have always been a magical place. It is about to become even more magical with the addition of Liberty Magic, an intimate speakeasy-style ma…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
I love Midnight Radio. The concept of the show is perfectly summed up in their intro: it’s a radio show that’s not on the radio. For ten years, Bricolage Production Company has adapted s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 8, 2018
The gnawing anxieties and insecurities and ceaseless self-doubt of the emerging artists are the starts of Anton Chekov’s lauded, and now somewhat notorious, masterpiece The Seagull. The so…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Musicals and bucolic folk stories can often function to encase the bleak in baroque, to dress the macabre in diaphanous, floral cloaks, and to adorn the dire with hints of whimsy. These flou…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:36PM[SHARE]I got to see the Ray Werner Festival on an evening where two one-acts were performed. The first of which was called The Stuttering Pig, and you can imagine my disappointment when, spoiler al…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:18PM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
A letter from the Editor, Well, here we are again, my dear readers. Nearly the end of the year. Nearly winter. Nearly time for new beginnings. It’s also nearly our 5th birthday! In our nea…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:37PM[SHARE]Designed as a showcase for playwrights, directors, and actors of the “over forty” set, The Silver Theater Project continues its Salon Play staged reading series with Vivienne at The Gli…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Taking the reins at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski summons Shakespeare for her directorial debut of her innovative adaptation of The Tempest, January 24-Fe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:51PM[SHARE]In an ideal world should be an onus on theatre and the artists who work to produce theatre to uphold a particular ethos and promulgate art that entertains as much as it informs and represent…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:27PM[SHARE]Among the definitions of “late bloomer,” you should find the name, Ray Werner. As he turned 80 this year, the longtime Point Breeze resident enjoyed his first “Ray Fest,” the debut o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:55AM[SHARE]Our musical pick for December is the Theatre Factory’s production Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical. Picking a holiday musical is often a challenge for community theatres. Th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 2, 2018
The Pittsburgh Classic Players theatre company was founded by three Shakespearean scholars who met in graduate school at Mary Baldwin University. Brett Sullivan Santry, Harper York, and Kati…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2018
Welcome to our Winter Edition of the Top Five Musicals. The juggernaut known as Hamilton will be occupying the Benedum for the entire month of January, but there are still a few good choice…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2018
The holiday season is officially upon us and nowhere else is it more apparent than in Canonsburg’s quaintly decorated Little Lake Theatre. Displaying tinsel hung with care against a festiv…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:31PM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2018
I am thrilled to share with PITR readers, the opportunity I had to meet Virginia Wall Gruenert, Artistic Director and co-founder of off the WALL Productions. We sat together one evening in O…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:48PM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2018
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama’s production of Detroit ’67 has all of the elements for success – an award-winning playwright, an award-winning director, a strong design t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:17PM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2018
Walking through The Little Lake Theatre Company’s stage felt warm and traditional, like going to your grandparents’ for the holidays. Torches lighted the area and gave an overall homey i…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
A boisterously brassy, flamboyantly limelight-hogging leading lady who seems to encompass every overly aggressive and ostentatious showgirl and Hollywood starlet. A winsome but chronically n…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
The human mind knows no bounds of imagination. Fueled by the experiences of life, playwright, artist, and baker Ray Werner journeys to the depths of human nature and back. Combining dialogue…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:55PM[SHARE]Whether you like it or not (and I think you will), Hedwig has come to Pittsburgh. She and her band The Angry Inch are here to kick off Pittsburgh Musical Theatre’s Rockin’ West End serie…
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