Monday, May 28, 2018
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
Next weekend Resonance Works will provide the ultra-rare opportunity of hearing Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka – an enchanting opera not only new to Pittsburgh, but to be sung in its origin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Stage 62’s upcoming production, Dogfight is raising a lot of questions. I needed to know what the musical is really about and why anyone invested in local theater arts should not miss it…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
It’s a good night of theater when the play you’re watching can make you think. It’s a fun night of theater when the play you’re watching can make you laugh. It’s a cathartic night …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
Mimesis, inspiration, and authenticity are notions constantly scrutinized and thrown into tension when the artistic process is endeavored upon. When the artistic process grows intertwined in…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:56PM[SHARE]I really wasn’t familiar with the plot of Equus before going to see it last Thursday at Duquesne University’s Genesius Theatre. I knew it had something to do with horses that would someh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:33AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2018
For the final offering of its current season, Pittsburgh Opera will present Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love (L’Elisir d’Amore) beginning next Saturday evening, April 21. With a …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 14, 2018
The thing with attending the Fringe Festival is that you can’t really know what to expect. I’m keenly aware of this as I enter St. Mary’s Lyceum; as I enter, the only evidence a festiv…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:13PM[SHARE]I love going to the theatre on opening night when there’s a sell-out crowd and people are really engaging with the show. That’s why we all do live theatre, right? For the reaction and th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
The final night of the 5th Annual Pittsburgh Fringe Festival found me in yet another basement for three more shows, this time at the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church. Unlike the prior…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Local Pittsburgh buskers, Sean Miller and Kristin Ward are The Daring Douglasses. If you have been to any Pittsburgh events over the past couple decades, you most likely have seen them, a la…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:48PM[SHARE]Children of Heaven produced by Laugh/ Riot Performing Arts Company Is pertinent following the #metoo movement currently storming media. Before the performance begins I am greeted by a woma…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:28PM[SHARE]In his 1990 musical Assassins, Stephen Sondheim wrote “It takes a lot of men to make a gun”. In their 2018 production of Recoil, University of Pittsburgh Stages proved that it takes a di…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
From Iron Age Theater in Philadelphia, To My Unborn Child: A Love Letter from Fred Hampton written and performed by Richard Bradford, just blew my mind. This one person show recounts the l…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]With a name like St. Mary’s Lyceum, I was anticipating a church venue for the 5th annual Pittsburgh Fringe Festival shows playing there. In fact, it’s a bar – or should I say a social …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 7, 2018
The New Vintage Ensemble presents #VANLIFE, written, directed and performed by Kimmie Leff and Casey Thomas. Â Kimmie and Casey, two friends whose lives are less than perfect are becoming …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2018
It is truly difficult to discern if it’s the timid glimpses of spring cracking through the dreary winter gloom, or the fact that I have inexplicably listened to Lorde’s “Green Light”…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Simon Stephen’s play Heisenberg could be a romantic comedy. It certainly seems like it should be. Two strangers meet in a park, embark on a discovery of the other’s queer realities a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2018
Who doesn’t love a man in drag?! Whether it’s Milton Berle, Flip Wilson’s Geraldine Jones, Tyler Perry’s Madea, or Robin Williams’s Mrs. Doubtfire – a man in support hose and a w…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
There is something so inherently simple about the deconstruction and even excoriation of an individual’s interior by following passages through rooms in the individuals’ personal space. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 17, 2018
If you’ve seen this year’s Best Picture winner The Shape of Water, you know it tells the story of a mute woman doing everything she can to live happily ever after with an anthropomorphic…
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