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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
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]Wednesday, February 1, 2017
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]Tuesday, January 31, 2017
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]Friday, January 13, 2017
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]Friday, December 23, 2016
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]Thursday, December 15, 2016
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]Saturday, December 10, 2016
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]Thursday, December 8, 2016
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]Wednesday, December 7, 2016
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]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
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]Monday, December 5, 2016
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]Sunday, December 4, 2016
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]Saturday, December 3, 2016
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]Wednesday, November 30, 2016
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]Monday, November 28, 2016
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]Sunday, November 27, 2016
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]Thursday, November 17, 2016
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]Saturday, November 12, 2016
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]Friday, November 11, 2016
Few scripts are as universally lauded as Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men. A tense drama driven entirely by conversation, the plot follows white 12 jurors in 1950’s America who are preparing…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Sexual abuse and the way women are often negatively sexualized once they experience the onset of puberty is a subject that has been at the forefront in recent news headlines; making the over…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2016
Prime Stage Theatre has kicked off its 20th-anniversary season with a not-to-miss production of the beloved literary classic To Kill a Mockingbird, which continues to play for two weekends a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2016
A certain part of me thrives off of conspiracy theories. I’ll admit–it’s a malignantly nefarious part of me, one which dwells in the gallows of my brain and entertains tomfoolery that …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:49AM[SHARE]In spirit of the season of the autumnal harvest, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has conjured up a spectacular production of the 19th century ballet, Giselle. An eerily beautiful way to burst …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:01AM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2016
One actor plays in the theater are often attempted but few really succeed. The charming, funny, and moving autobiographical play Feeding the Dragon at City Theatre gets everything right. Fro…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2016
In a Halloween season where America’s most popular zombie show, The Walking Dead, just had one of their most devastating, gory episodes of all time, it’s refreshing to find an opportunit…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:45PM[SHARE]Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park is one of those plays that annually gets produced probably more than it should. The play was considered contemporary in 1963, when Barefoot was considered…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:14PM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2016
There are ultimately two questions audience members will ask themselves at the outset of any contemporary Shakespeare production: what has the production done to modernize the play and what,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
There is something inherently disconcerting about going to see a theatrical restaging of the 1976 film Carrie, and finding out the theatre it’s presented in is a rustic barn. Seemingly b…
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