Thursday, April 27, 2017
What’s Missing is a show premised on imperfection, incompletion, dissatisfaction. The disembodied, mellifluous voice we hear as the two somber dancers begin their very calculated, yet very…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2017
“He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.” – Linda Loman, Death of a Salesman Whe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2017
The playbill for Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama’s aggressive and successful challenge of Andre Dumas’ timeless classic The Three Musketeers employs much space dedicated …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2017
The final day of Fringe started, admittedly, with a bit of delirium. Fatigued, processing all the mini-dramaturgical moments from the past two days, I was a bit beleaguered re-entering the A…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2017
It is apropos, perhaps, that when entering the Artist’s Image Resource, I was tantalized by phenomenally raw pieces crafted by artists of varying levels of experience that lined the wall. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:52PM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2017
Setting controls a play. It’s its backbone. This is particularly true when the setting contains an entire plot within a singular space. Also, particularly true when the audience feels …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 6, 2017
College campuses in America are a hotbed of cultural discourse. As they should be. However, unlike the last hundred years of existing as a space for entire generations to generate a stance o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2017
How does one continue the timeless story of a boy who never grows up? Steven Spielberg’s Hook notwithstanding, the obvious answer to that question is to explore his past. And that’s just…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Amid the dismally, dreary haze of Friday evening, there was a certain excited hum and rattle that illuminated the day as it settled into dusk. This excitement was the anxious anticipation an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:12PM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
These days, Jed Allen Harris says it takes a certain kind of script to draw him from the flexible confines of academic theater. He helped lay the foundation of today’s dynamic Pittsburgh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2017
The evening began with the ridiculous but thoroughly entertaining one man show Laundry Night by Captain Ambivalent. Captain Ambivalent sings with the accompaniment of a gold accordion, t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2017
Jill Jeffrey was a like many young actors, making the rounds at auditions and giving little thought to children’s theater–until she stepped on stage in Journey Back to Oz at Gemini Theat…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, March 24, 2017
The building my uncle is renovating is a wide open space barren of furniture, the chipped paint dotted with hungry-looking light sockets. I am with him while he works, because my parents nee…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:20PM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2017
The Duquesne Red Masquers could not have asked for better timing for their production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. A show about a populist President who rides to power by claiming to rep…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Ever have that dream where you’re suddenly in the middle of a play, but it’s in someone’s living room instead of on a stage and the actors are inches away from you? And then you realiz…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2017
If you go to Dreamgirls expecting a biopic musical about The Supremes, you’ll be surprised: The show actually is a fictionalized tale inspired not just by the legendary female trio from th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 13, 2017
Question: “How do you sink a Polish battleship? Answer: Put it in the water.” Please, don’t get offended, the David Ives’ play Polish Joke is loaded with “Polish jokes” that ar…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2017
Escapism has no tool more effective than nostalgia. Forever Plaid, an off Broadway musical originally created by Stuart Ross, is a series of harmonized covers and polite sketches from a musi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:34PM[SHARE]Prime Stage Theatre’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1949 classic, 1984, is ambitiously loyal to its original text. It attempts to extrapolate the inner story of one man inside of a par…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
This is not a review of the world premiere of Arlene Weiner’s play Findings produced by the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. This is a “re-view”. What’s the difference? In Fin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2017
This musical has so much; it is so rich. It is a cascade of characters who are fully drawn, with captivating arcs. It’s a litany of singing performances, CMU’s great bastion of tal…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2017
The Pittsburgh Playhouse’s adaptation of Big Love wrestles with relationship language the same way that the 470 BC tragedy Aeschylus’ The Suppliants did. Big Love is a very smart but dar…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2017
A letter from the Editor, According to Punxsutawney Phil, Spring is still another two weeks away, yet we couldn’t help but look ahead to the next three months and we are excited! Spring is…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]Pittsburgh theatregoers have a great mix of musicals to choose from this spring. Our preview features five shows that offer a mix of style, period and contemporary relevance. Two of them are…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:39PM[SHARE]Partaking in the spectacle of theatre and performance is a profoundly immersive phenomenon. An audience member can be wholly consumed, enraptured by the dialogue, the stage tricks, the leg…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:17PM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2017
Even steel rusts, and that is the underlying theme, and title, of the new play currently in production by Duquesne University’s Red Masquers. The play, written by Duquesne alum F.J. Hartla…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
Elise Forier Edie’s The Pink Unicorn at off the WALLÂ invites us into the home of a woman named Trish. The stage is a cozy southern kitchen, modestly furnished with a Martha Stewart-ian …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2017
The Theater Factory’s The Complete History of America (abridged) directed by Jen James is a delightful and frantic journey through the formation of the United States, from Vikings to Nativ…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
As One, the second of Pittsburgh Opera’s two Resident Artist Program productions for this year, opens next Saturday night, February 18, at the company’s headquarters in the Strip Distric…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
In the book “Get-R-Done”, Larry the Cable Guy once quipped: “This is the first book I’ve written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin’.” If yo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2017
As it turned out, Ann Talman was, indeed, her brother’s keeper – literally. Talman – a playwright and actress who grew up in Pittsburgh – has an older brother, Woody, who has severe …
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