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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:28PM[SHARE]This was the tightest play I’ve ever seen: opening night of The Royale at City Theatre. The jabbing dialogue overlays every continuous line. The chorus that pieces the fight, from buil…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:03PM[SHARE]The experience of seeing The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity the first time was, for me, a series of uniquely fortuitous revelations. Sitting in the back row of the bleacher-style seats bef…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:21PM[SHARE]Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame brings a powerful mixture of student and professional performers to the Byham Theater, where it continues playing through February …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:34AM[SHARE]With each passing year, Pittsburgh Opera’s Resident Artist Program productions seem to maintain or excel the high standards of those of the past. At first glance, this season’s offering…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]2016, it has been said, has been a pretty garbage year. The division between Americans is greater than ever in living memory, the incoming president’s speeches resemble a series of Cards A…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:40AM[SHARE]In a shift from its usual Christmas offering, the Conservatory Theatre Company at Point Park University has chosen to play The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical for its holiday show. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:26AM[SHARE]I’ve attended the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s production of The Nutcracker countless times. I went as a young, aspiring dancer growing up, and in the past few years, have the renewed the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:35AM[SHARE]It’s well into the holiday season and there’s a chance you’ve either had or will have a tense family dinner. No matter your family situation, you’re probably not going have as tense …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:20AM[SHARE]There is a certain immutable emotion that resides in rhythmic silences. That which we cannot articulate, understand, imitate in words or conversational gestures dwells in the physical puls…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Some lines from Robert Frost’s 1914 “Home Burial” came to me Friday night while watching off the WALL’s production of Duncan McMillan’s Lungs: “You that dug with your own hand …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Pittsburghese and yuletide cheer converge in the Midnight Radio Holiday Spectacular at Bricolage Production Company’s space downtown. No, this is not the live version of a local radio sho…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]We spend a lot of time as a culture romanticizing quirky iconoclasts, people who see the world just a little bit differently than us, in films, novels and plays. We spend considerably less t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Perhaps the most compelling aspect of CMU’s production of Mr. Marmalade is the actors’ ability to take on the roles of children. Specifically, a four year old. Aleyse Shannon, as the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:04PM[SHARE]A letter from the Editor To our beloved readers, The countdown has begun; there are just 21 days left until the first day of Winter and we have put together a preview sure to prepare you for…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:27PM[SHARE]The selection of which musical to produce in any given season can be a dilemma. There are many factors to consider that include casting, designer, director and performance space. These decis…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:09PM[SHARE]Containment, dimensionality, perspective and strictures or limitations of space are the most impeding elements of theatre. At times imperceptible, these elements structure and even haunt t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:55AM[SHARE]Here’s the thing about this review: it’s loaded. Overall, the play was great because the acting and directing were well executed. Although, it tackles some issues with race that are comp…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:25PM[SHARE]Perhaps more than in any other western country, citizens in America view the seismic shift of cultural norms as a result of the last 100 years of progress. Before the sexual revolution of th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:29PM[SHARE]Moments of bewilderment, outrage, psychological unraveling and genuine misery collide in unanticipated ways to create the peculiar experience of watching Pittsburgh Playhouse’s Conservator…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:24AM[SHARE]I shouldn’t be partisan. Anybody can read this and as a journalistic document or review, this should appeal to all people. Though there is something undeniably liberal about the classi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:21PM[SHARE]
