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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
We read a book, a character is described, we form a mental picture: how she moves, the timbre of her voice, the look in her eye. Some descriptive power is so vivid—theatrical even—that…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2018
For its second and final Resident Artist production of the winter months, Pittsburgh Opera will present Douglas J. Cuomo’s Ashes & Snow, beginning Saturday evening, February 17, at the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 2018
Give me a little murder with my musical. Cynicism with my choreography. Horror with my harmonies. Camp with my catastrophes! Give me Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s goofy, bizarre, touchin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:03PM[SHARE]For its 2018-’19 season – the company’s 80th – Pittsburgh Opera will offer a variety of productions sure to meet with just about any music lover’s taste. The four Benedum Center st…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2018
A Devil Inside is an experiment in physicality. It’s an insane show; in that, it plays with the concept of ‘madness’. Though it’s very likable, almost cute, with how over the top…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:41AM[SHARE]What does one say about a show where the script was awful but the performance was incredible? Well, I guess the easy thing to say would be… We Will Rock You’s script was awful, but the p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2018
The first time I ever experienced true terror that wasn’t generated by my own imagination and confabulation, I was watching the original Evil Dead film while my parents were across the str…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:13PM[SHARE]Based on the award-winning novel by John Ball, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company opened a new adaptation of In The Heat Of The Night on February 2nd. After the story had found life thro…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:34PM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2018
Over the years, Superman and Spider-Man have faced many foes. Usually for the sake of a happy ending, they always prevail. But there’s one enemy that they’ve both suffered humiliating, p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2018
It’s difficult to be close friends with both halves of a couple, because you become the ultimate Third Wheel; you are, in fact, the Third Wheel incarnate. The best case scenario for the Th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Some cases just stick with you. We probably all either know a grisled retired police officer who has uttered something to that effect or at least seen one do so on a network TV procedural. F…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2018
Codes of honor have multitudinous iterations with a variety of names. Omerta for the Mafia. Bushido for Samurai. Courtly love for the softer-hearted knights of the Middle Ages. Regardless of…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 20, 2018
There’s a certain banality to a stripper undressing at home after a shift. It’s still stripping, but it’s just the bane of every working soul at that point: the slow unlacing of the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2018
For the third offering of its current season, Pittsburgh Opera will present another local premiere of a contemporary work, The Long Walk, beginning Saturday evening, January 20, at the CAPA …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2018
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change boasts the second longest off-Broadway run of a musical in history, bested only by The Fantastiks, with just over 5,000 performances from 1996-2008. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 21, 2017
When presenting a show as widely known and frequently told as A Lyrical Christmas Carol, it becomes important for a production company to breathe fresh life into the show, or at least to be …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2017
Femininity is rarely allowed to exist or function outside of intentional or unintentional archetypes. Since so much of the conception of femininity coincides with the process of othering or …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 16, 2017
“What brings you joy?” asks Resonance Works | Pittsburgh board of directors president Rob Frankenberry. There is certainly joy in listening to live classical music. There is joy in the a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2017
The thing we seem to forget about legendary creative radicals like Oscar Wilde is that they were, in a word, radicals. Oscar Wilde may have been a student of literary history, but his work w…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Bricolage Production Company created a brilliant episode in their Midnight Radio series when they opened the audiovisual masterpiece A Christmas Story on December 7th. Based on the cult clas…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:25AM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2017
When I walked into the Byham Theater to see Pittsburgh CLO’s A Musical Christmas Carol for the very first time, I let out an involuntary “Wow!”. The impact of D Martyn Bookwalter’s s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:59PM[SHARE]Friday, December 8, 2017
The Theatre Factory’s holiday offering of A Christmas Story opened Thursday, December 7, 2017 to a small, but enthusiastic audience. Adapted for the stage by Philip Grecian, and directed f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2017
I often commit the unfortunate preconception-based error of relegating certain plays, musicals particularly, to a realm of untouchably fey. Annie—originally adapted from Thomas Meechan’s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Grief is one of our most extraordinary creative motivators. The band Mount Eerie, a solo project by the musician Phil Elverum, released a song this year called “Real Death” that opens wi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:22PM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2017
Playwright Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love is damn fine theater, performed with great style, humor, pathos, bravery, and yes, love, by a damn fine ensemble, assembled and directed with in…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:42AM[SHARE]Monday, November 27, 2017
A letter from the Editor: Our dearest readers, Winter is only 24 days away and we’re already dashing through Christmas decorations and Cyber Monday sales as 2108 creeps up on us. 2017 has …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:12PM[SHARE]Fortitude of spirit; endurance in spite of all financial limitations and burdens put on resources; a nearly virtuous steadfastness to the art you are committed to producing and the community…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:08PM[SHARE]Friday, November 24, 2017
Welcome to our annual pick of five of must-see musicals this winter. We have a diverse mix that includes two community theatre productions; Annie at Comtra and The Last Five Years by Split S…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2017
PigPen Theatre Company’s The Old Man and the Old Moon radiates joy at such a rate that you can practically feel its glow before you even get the chance to take your seat. I mean that somew…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2017
Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace is a play about how we interpret spaces. When our protagonist Mortimer Brewster (Ron Clawson) returns to his family’s home, he’s pleased to onc…
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