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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
Pittsburgh Opera will continue its mission of giving contemporary American operas a hearing when the four-performance run of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s critically acclaimed and much pub…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:15PM[SHARE]Prime Stage Theatre’s production of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings previewed on Friday, March 9, 2018 and opened on Saturday, March 10, 2018. I had the pleasure of attending the preview p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2018
A letter from the Editor, Well gang, we made it through another Pittsburgh winter. A few tires may have been sacrificed to the Goddess of Potholes but we all made it through in one piece, ri…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:01PM[SHARE]Mention the CLO to most Pittsburghers’, and they think of the series of Broadway Musicals presented during the summer months at the Benedum. Some people will mention the CLO Cabaret at The…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Hearing Little Lake Theatre’s artistic director, Jena Oberg, talk about the theatre’s upcoming 70th anniversary makes you want to immediately join the Little Lake family. Little Lake is …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2018
You can feel spring is just around the corner and the spring crop of musicals is about ready to bloom at our area theater companies. Our featured five, listed in order of opening dates, incl…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]Friday, March 2, 2018
Producing new and adventurous works in unexpected spaces is for Karla Boos, artistic director of Quantum Theatre, but the tradition she has created thrives where you might least expect to ex…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Pittsburgh Public Theater announced their 2018/19 season at a member’s reception on Tuesday night. Board Chair Michael H. Ginsberg officially passed the baton from Ted Pappas, the re…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2018
When trying to hear a song, watch a video, or learn more about the musical Oklahoma!, one cannot simply type the word “Oklahoma” into a search engine. There is something huge that diffe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2018
To enter the University of Pittsburgh’s production of Marie Antoinette in the Cathedral of Learning’s Studio Theater is to be confronted. Actors dressed alternately as nobles o…
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