Tuesday, November 13, 2018
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’ …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Pittsburgh Opera will launch its 2018-‘19 season (the company’s 80th) on Saturday evening, October 6, with the first of four performances of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. This perennial …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2018
South Park Theatre is a bit of a drive from Pittsburgh proper, but I recently caught their production of Now & Then by Sean Grennan. This show, directed by Allison M. Weakland, was an in…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:37PM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
When I first walked into the McKeesport Little Theater to see Sordid Lives, I thought I was in the wrong place. Mind you, I went on press night, so there wasn’t the usual hubbub that you…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:16PM[SHARE]Florian Zeller, the writer of The Father, has been called the world’s most exciting living playwright. Being skeptical of big claims like that is easy. But if Kinetic Theatre Company’s e…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2018
Reporters from Pittsburgh’s media outlets converged on the new Pittsburgh Playhouse yesterday morning for a tour by the University’s President and the Conservatory of Performing Arts (…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Pittsburgh New Works Festival opened their Program D one acts on Friday, September 14, 2018, putting together a group of plays that asked the big questions about the meaning of existence, an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:42PM[SHARE]“1-2-You know what to do…” With Pittsburgh Playwright Theatre Company’s sterling reputation as the city’s premier interpreter of August Wilson’s work, one would think it’s as e…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:22PM[SHARE]What dictates the machinations of change and progress? Is it fear that churns into action; indefatigable ethos that never relents, heedless to danger or repercussions; or the unwitting resil…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2018
If you are looking for some comedic relief from the seriousness of life then visit Trafford, Pa where The Theatre Factory has brought Young Frankenstein to life on its stage. The comedic mu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2018
Why am I here? Who should I be? What am I allowed? Program C was three shows in total, with less than a 2 hour total run time, and in case you’re the type to only read the first few... Rea…
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