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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 14, 2017
It is an interesting phenomenon when the storytelling trends currently dominating the television and film landscapes creep up in the theatre world. Every new project announced nowadays, whet…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2017
People, in a singular sense, can change. According to centuries of written narrative, however, people collectively tend not to. No matter the time or place in human history, we have our trop…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2017
A tale that has enchanted old and young alike opened at the Byham Theater to the tones of a live orchestra tuning. A slightly blurry projection of the traditional Disney’s Beauty and …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:23PM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2017
Clue: The Musical, like the board game which is its source material, is full of little surprises. Just as the show seems to settle on being one thing – the goofy send up of murder mysterie…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2017
For the second production of its current season, Pittsburgh Opera is offering an excellent cast in Mozart’s perennial favorite, The Marriage of Figaro. That this 18th century comic story o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:35PM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2017
The burning question at the heart of Xanadu is simple. What is Xanadu? Merriam-Webster defines it as “an idyllic, exotic, or luxurious placeâ€. According to Wikipedia, Xanadu is bot…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:27PM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2017
There is no introduction to the colloquially titled I Won’t be in on Monday. There is no perfunctory schpiel prefacing the performance concerning donors or future shows or money that …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
A mysterious adventure, Bricolage Production Company’s latest immersive experience, DODO, challenges the idea of traditional theater by taking the audience member by on an individualized, …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2017
The leaves are starting to turn, the wind is getting a little cooler (in theory… most of the time…), and candy prices are going up. That’s right, it’s Halloween season! And while the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:58PM[SHARE]It’s been three days since I saw Pittsburgh Savoyards’ production of H.M.S. Pinafore, and I’m still singing “I Am the Monarch of the Sea” to myself, which tells you just how catchy…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:38AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2017
When a door opens to create new productions in a historic spaces, creative opportunities are revealed. Now, PICT Classic Theatere brings classic stories to two of Pittsburgh’s most storie…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
For all that’s been said about the appeal of the heroic epic, one of the genre’s least appreciated aspects is that its protagonists are malleable. Joseph Campbell’s infinitely referenc…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Our Town, marks the opening of the mainstage season for University of Pittsburgh Stages in the newly renovated Richard E. Rauh Studio Th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2017
Whodunnit? This question has been posed to audiences for centuries of storytelling. Whether it’s a murder mystery or a comedic caper, there’s nothing better than finding out the truth by…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 7, 2017
Provocation. Undaunting steadfastness. Ruthless, feckless talent. Unwaveringly, emboldened authenticity. These are descriptors which cling to one’s thoughts when one considers the works an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2017
Before the sensational sensuousness of Boundless even begins, a sort of breathless anticipation imbued the spacious yet cloistered theatre at New Hazlett Theatre. The dancers, pacing about w…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2017
I loved this show. But I’ve had to sit on it for a few days before writing about it, because it touched me so damn much. It scared me. It really did. It just jarred me and gutted m…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:03PM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2017
City Theatre’s dynamic production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City may not be for the faint …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2017
While I grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania, I moved away as a teenager and only moved back to Pittsburgh-proper this year after a long interregnum. My relationship with the city kind of fe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:36PM[SHARE]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…
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