Monday, December 3, 2018
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 10, 2018
Nefariousness and insidiousness are lurking in an unassuming manor house in the East End of Pittsburgh. Heralded by invitations that indicate nothing past a gathering of likeminded associat…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:26AM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
It’s odd how a show that came out as recently as 2010 can feel like a ‘decades’ piece, but Comtra Theatre’s production of Green Day’s American Idiot feels like it was ripped straig…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Love: a universal only rivaled by war. Both are intertwined at the heart of the tribal musical Hair amidst the political counterculture movement of the 1960s. Told through an ensemble f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:19PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
The Cultural Trust celebrates this year’s Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts with a classy and uniquely extravagant wrap party and fundraiser Promenade in the Pavilion on Saturday…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Pittsburgh CLO ’s production of An American In Paris gets a television encore on PBS’ Great Performances series on Friday, November 2nd at 9 pm on WQED. The show, which garnered multip…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2018
There are some unspoken rules and expectations of theatergoing. If five or more children under the age of five are in the audience, you’re either at a restaged Aladdin, or you’re in for…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2018
Soprano Ashley Fabian, the second-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist, will be one of the promising features in the company’s upcoming production of Hansel & Gretel, German composer …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2018
The New Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of David Davalos’s play, Wittenberg, is a low budget-high ambition love-fest of ideas and words, not perfect by any means, with highs and…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 20, 2018
Chaos reigns supreme in Stage Right Pittsburgh’s latest production, God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, as two married couples discuss a skirmish between their children. We have the humanitari…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2018
Buckle up, kids. You’re in for one hell of a ride as Cup-a-Jo Productions presents their second installment of Unhinged, Pittsburgh’s ONLY immersive Halloween theatre event.Unhinged2 is…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:53PM[SHARE]What happened when Hamlet was at school–just before Shakespeare’s play begins? Well, Denmark’s Prince, Doctor Faustus, and Martin Luther walk into a classroom… The Pittsburgh premier…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
There is a particular fondness in my heart for hearing someone bellow at a person for being “an old poop.” A term of endearment rather than of malice or mockery, the chirping out of “y…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 13, 2018
I’ve been talking to friends recently about the “should people still do this show?” question. Does the show in question have a place in the climate of the world, is it still relevant a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:55AM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
I was pretty stoked to get to see She Kills Monsters at Pitt last week, not because I’m into Dungeons & Dragons (never played it myself), but because I’m a huge geek and was excited …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Abandoned desires, neglected selves, and—as is always the case with anything Agatha Christie has her hand in—intrigue and cunning deceit, run amok in South Park Theatre’s production of…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:16PM[SHARE]It’s not every day you hear a homicidal barber described as “a mood,” but that is precisely how Noah Pleunik describes his role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:35PM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2018
Stephen Sondheim is often regarded as the William Shakespeare of musical theatre by the people who have spent the last 60 years admiring, dissecting, and interpreting his work. The proof for…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 6, 2018
When you get ready for your theatre experience, you are preparing for a journey. You may be walking through a site-specific performance like Quantum Theatre’s Chatterton, or you may expect…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Breakneck dialogue and shattering hearts take center stage in barebones productions latest show, Kenneth Lonegran’s Lobby Hero, a play which examines the banalities of four individuals’ …
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