Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Playwright Michael McGovern has founded the Silver Theater Project to create an opportunity for older actors and playwrights to have their voices heard. When one takes into account the age d…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2017
You know you are in for an interesting experience when you are welcomed into the world of Middletown by a Public Speaker who tries to encompass all of humanity in all its forms through an …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:17PM[SHARE]Friday, September 22, 2017
For 27 seasons, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival has brought new one act shows to the stage from playwrights both local and from far away. Last weekend, I got to check out three non-local w…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2017
Young Americans are fascinated by other young Americans struggling and making it in New York City. At times, it feels like every sitcom on television is some variation of this plot. Millenni…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2017
There is something to be said for the succulent, somewhat indulgent wave of hyper-camp that is necessary to successfully execute a musical adapted from seemingly unfitting source material. M…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
As we began to write The Scottsboro Boys, it was immediately apparent why it was so important to tell their story. Behind the headlines, the spectacle, the ongoing trials, the histrionics …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:06PM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2017
A good comedy, as described by A Masterpiece of Comic…Timing’s Broadway agent protagonist Jerry Cobb (Art DeConciliis), is one hundred jokes sprinkled throughout two acts. He argues that…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:41PM[SHARE]This third post covers the Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) Programs C & D! Six new one-act plays will be produced during this portion of the festival, all performed at the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:13PM[SHARE]Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks marks its thirteenth year running with a production of Henry V, directed by Alan Irvine. It is the last in a cycle of plays that mostly focuses on the y…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2017
The Pittsburgh New Works Festival kicked off this past weekend with a trio of original one acts: CCAC South Campus Theater’s Roosevelt’s Ghosts, The Summer Company’s The Pivot and The …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, September 4, 2017
A Letter from the Editor, Our dear readers, we’ve made it through another summer season! After 40 reviews and 14 features this summer, we’re ready to dig out our sweaters, put on the ke…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:10PM[SHARE]The dog days of summer are behind us and it’s time to look forward to a fall full of refreshing musicals. Our 2017 Top Five Fall Musical Theatre Preview shows feature two Tony Award winnin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:57PM[SHARE]It’s only Tom Stoppard and the question of the root of human consciousness, but rising American director Rachel M. Stevens eagerly takes on The Hard Problem for Quantum Theater. The W…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:23PM[SHARE]At the end of June, actor Mark Rylance shared how he caught the Pittsburgh bug on his first visit more than a decade ago, fueling new projects steeped in our region’s labor history. Fresh …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]“I’m kind of crazy about this season,” says Ted Pappas of his 2017-18 programming for Pittsburgh Public Theater. The company’s 43rd season is also his last as artistic director. Papp…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 3, 2017
Pittsburgh Opera has chosen for its 79th season an interesting combination of works – a 50/50 split between the old, tried and true, and the new, including a second world premiere in as ma…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:49PM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2017
For their 11th year of performances, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center is introducing their 2017-2018 season – “Dream Bigger,” beginning on October 6, 2017, through June 24, 2018. Th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:41AM[SHARE]Monday, August 28, 2017
This second post covers the Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) Programs A & B! Six new one-act plays will be produced during this portion of the festival, all performed at the Carnegie…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 27, 2017
Multidimensional, quasi-interactive plays are gradually becoming a phenomenon in theatre, in which evocative themes and transgressive or incredibly sensitive subject matter can be portrayed …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
When I was given this assignment, I was greatly confused at being told that the theatre I was going to was in Greenfield. I lived on the Squirrel Hill/Greenfield edge for eleven years and ha…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2017
There is a reason we tell each other stories that go beyond a recollection of the facts. We like to think we’re our own historians, and sometimes we are, but we don’t make myths as a mat…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:41PM[SHARE]There is a sort of unintentional impracticality to presenting a dramaturgical narrative that focuses on the heavily romanticized (and even fetishized, to some extent) monarchical dynasty of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:02PM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2017
It’s THAT time of year again ladies and gentleman! Time to settle back into your daily routine of books and classes for some of you, which means, rehearsals are starting soon! If you’ve …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:24PM[SHARE]Pittsburgh’s oldest amateur theatre company, The Duquesne Red Masquers has quite the ambitious upcoming 105th season. Orphie and the Book of Heroes, The Busy Body, Macbeth and Equus would …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:01PM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2017
If you are a regular reader of Pittsburgh in the Round I’m sure you have realized that the Pittsburgh area has quite the active theatre scene. From productions at the Cultural District the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2017
Cloud 9 is a peculiar, challenging play. Its title brings to mind feelings of euphoria and images of paradise. On the other hand, Throughline Theatre Company’s production of Caryl Churchil…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
Horror and comedy mix well. Laughter and terror are base emotions, but both require a degree of nuance to actually work. A comedy with stilted rhythm is unsettling; horror without subtlety i…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2017
There are two kinds of jukebox musicals in the world. In one type, the songs originally performed by an established musical act are incorporated into that person or group’s biography. Exam…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Any fairly seasoned or routine theatre-goer has a certain expectation for crowd makeup at certain shows. The niche, hyper-baroque, perhaps one person piece—the crowd is replete with art ma…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2017
12 Peers’ production of Mr. Burns reminds me how theatre is actually a sickness: an uncontrollable urge for group chemistry to elucidate collaboration, values and to define social archetyp…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2017
Neil Simon’s Rumors rumbles with all the kinetic energy of a whodunit but happily ignores the bullet points from the genre’s rulebook. This isn’t a play where the shock and awe come fr…
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