Tuesday, August 14, 2018
As someone who was reared in the golden era of Disney, I stand out as one of the anomalies who has never seen The Little Mermaid. Part of this exclusion from the canon was my mother’s reno…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Tuesday night the Pittsburgh CLO opened its final show of the season, Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Benedum Center for The Performing Arts in Pittsburgh and I have to say, I “thoroughly…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:46PM[SHARE]The playbill for Little Lake Theatre Company’s Production of Steel Magnolias proclaims that the show is “a Little Lake favorite,” making it a great selection for their 70th anniversary…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2018
The CLO’s latest offering of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is an ebullient production, full of color, energy, magic, and fun. The show celebrates vintage Disney and vintage musicals wit…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
“Start the f*cking play!” As an audience member and a (usually) willing spectator in the events that unfold before you, there is a certain element of participation and responsibility tha…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 29, 2018
There are some musicals that people want to go see for the clever lyrics, thrilling plot, and complex characters. Then there are some that people want to see to enjoy pretty dancing and sing…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Week 3 of Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble’s 2018 season was graced by the practically perfect performance entitled To love and be loved, a collection of art songs compiled to create the stor…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2018
There often isn’t the emotional or pragmatic space anymore to dedicate the time to storytellers and fantastically capricious tales. Deeply nostalgic in nature, plays and films and books th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a troubling and troublesome play. Troubling because it is still, even at 71 years old, emotionally harrowing and often deeply disturbing. It…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Propped upon a music stand, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” resembles a holy text and its spartan backdrop, a reliquary. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2018
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” may be one of the better-known Shakespeare quotes, but it also happens to describe the ensemble of The New Renaissance Theatre Company’s As…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Kiss the day goodbye… When theatre practitioners gather there are stories to be told. When Point Park University invited former performing arts students and friends to the venerable Pittsb…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:12PM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2018
Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale. Caroline Nicolian and David Toole. If you’ve been living under a theatrical rock in Pittsburgh for the last several yea…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2018
An air of solemnity and dire seriousness imbues the cramped theatre where Ubu Roi is staged. As you navigate your way to a seat, a severe woman brusquely urges you to get settled as quickly …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Pittsburgh CLO’s second offering of the 2018 season is the Tony Award-winning Titanic the Musical, created by Peter Stone (story and book) and Maury Yeston (music and lyrics). At its mos…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
What do a throw pillow, a hula hoop, and a car door with the word “peach” spray painted on it have in common? Stumped? Well, don’t rack your brain too much trying to solve this riddle …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2018
In its final moments, Ragtime: The Musical at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center gives us a glimpse at what the world could be: unified in its diversity, striving for a better future, a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 17, 2018
When you go to see The Rocky Horror Show you know going in, you are not expecting anything akin to Shakespeare or Wicked. You are going for pure R-rated, campy, fun where the audience partic…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2018
I think there is a crucial plot point missing from each of the shows in the recent rash of biographical jukebox musicals adapting the stories of iconic recording artists for the stage. No…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2018
M’Lynn. Truvy. Anelle. Clairee. Shelby. OUISER. For a certain generation and very distinct demographic, these are names that evoke a particularly unique upswelling of emotions and response…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:32PM[SHARE]The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC – not to be confused with the Royal Shakespeare Company) has once again brought their wacky take on Shakespeare to Pittsburgh with their latest work, W…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:41PM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
Designed as a showcase for playwrights, directors and actors of the “over forty” set, The Silver Theater Project continues its Spring Salon Play Reading Series at The Glitter Box Theater…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2018
The local “Intimate Opera Theater,” Pittsburgh Festival Opera, will begin its summer offerings the evening of Friday, July 6, at the Falk Auditorium of Winchester Thurston in Shadyside. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2018
The production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans that opened on May 31 at Aftershock Theatre in Lawrenceville is clearly a labor of love for its cast and crew. The production, put on without an es…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:45PM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2018
Imagine a country where the leader has decided that the people he doesn’t like should be rounded up and removed, using any means necessary. Picture millions of people in this country being…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:07PM[SHARE]The nearly unconscionable sweltering heat that infested the neatly dilapidated top floor of an old Slovenian social hall nestled back on a side street in outer Lawrenceville was apropos for …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (PNME) is a group of top-notch musicians that has been making July Friday and Saturday nights compelling musical experiences since 1976, and the work they have …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:07PM[SHARE]Monday, May 28, 2018
A Letter from the Editor, Here we are again, on the cusp of Summer. This will be Pittsburgh in the Round’s 5th Summer season here in the Steel City so we truly want to thank you, our preci…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:27PM[SHARE]As the denouement of City Theatre’s exhilarating and compelling season swiftly approaches, the illustrious Pittsburgh theatre annually elects to end things with a proverbial bang, keeping …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]Just like real estate signs and orange highway cones, Musical Theatre in the Pittsburgh area comes into full bloom in the summer months. While there are dozens of musicals scheduled, for t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Back in 2013, the launch of a new community theatre in Westmoreland County seemed like just a pipe dream to Rob Jessup and Nate Newell, Split Stage Productions founders and co-owners. Despit…
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