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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Memorial Day is upon us and with that the official start of Summer. It is time for Pittsburgh CLO’s 72nd season which features some of the best of American Musical Theatre. With some gre…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Unbelievably talented high school students along with glitz and glam were in abundance at this year’s Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater. The Benedum was packe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]When you meet Jeffrey Chips, artistic director for the Steel City Shakespeare Center, you’re immediately struck by his indisputable kindness and genuineness. The mission of the Steel City …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 27, 2018
Last Sunday following the last performance of Ted Pappas’ masterful production of Hamlet, a group of three hundred plus fans of his gathered at the O’Reilly to celebrate his twenty-five-…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:22PM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2018
A despondent yet wistful boy plays a series of rhythmically haunting chords and beats on a loop pedal that he adroitly interweaves and syncopates with such meticulousness and emotional purpo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2018
For the first of two shows in their season entitled “Real People, Real Stories”, Front Porch presents an autobiographical musical. Composer William Finn began work on A New Brain after…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Seeing a play at August Wilson’s actual home is beyond a privilege. It is absolutely necessary as someone who is in Pittsburgh and loves theatre to indulge in this experience! It is ex…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2018
Perhaps one of the most indulgently delightful moments in cinema in the 80s takes place during a gleefully macabre funeral for two high school jocks in the 1988 cult classic The Heathers. Bl…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2018
I expect, if you go see Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s production of Avenue Q, you’ll have a great time, since they’ve put on a hilariously good production, making the most out of the ir…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2018
Over seven decades later, World War II still exists as one of the darkest times in the history of mankind. Storytellers continue to mine its historical highs and lows for new content to this…
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