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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:16AM[SHARE]Many people credit The Who as one of their favorite rock bands. Maybe you like their music as the theme song for your favorite CSI: series. One thing the Who should probably get credit for i…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:05AM[SHARE]People know when attending a Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s Richard E. Rauh Conservatory Company (RERC) show that the production features all youths, rather than a Broadway cast of professi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:37PM[SHARE]When asked to review The Pittsburgh Savoyard’s productions of Gianni Schicchi and Trial by Jury I at first refused. Up until my attendance of these operas my experience of this art form wa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]I remember the first time in my life I asked a question that had no satisfactory answer. I was maybe, 11 and asked a buddy at school something about why other kids made such a big deal about…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:39PM[SHARE]There is a certain added poignancy felt when watching the marvelously, passionately staged work Intimate Apparel at the University of Pittsburgh Stages. Set in New York in 1905 and functioni…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:27PM[SHARE]Try to remember a time when you were young and in love. You had a certain mindset for how the world would be: you’d fall in love, get married, and live out years and years in perfect bliss…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:35AM[SHARE]It’s 2016, America. A time of vigilant political correction, when we can look at the follies of our past faux pas and indict our recent ancestors for insensitivity. That’s the game, …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:06PM[SHARE]It should be noted, in all fairness as a spectator, that I walked into The Red Masquers production of Avenue Q with a profoundly intense ardor for the quirky—at times aberrant—…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard is a play about a genius playwright father and his daughter, an aspiring actress who cares for him. The potently acted drama is a bit like David Auburn’s P…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:37AM[SHARE]Do you remember The Toxic Avenger? A cult film from the eighties about a little nerd who gets drenched in chemicals and becomes a violent, deformed mutant hero? Bad production value but an e…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:20AM[SHARE]One of Pittsburgh’s most treasured annual events, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival has successfully bestowed upon us another year of marvelous original work! I had the pleasure of viewing…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:42PM[SHARE]Often disheartening fodder for plays, films and other creative works, the concept of a world in which art is subjected to critical sanitization and scorning approval from a dispassionate dem…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:22PM[SHARE]Mental health is a tricky subject to approach in storytelling. Do you try to solve the depression of a character, and risk pulling all the weight out from under your story’s credibility? D…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]I am consistently impressed by unique staging techniques, and each of the three short pieces at the New Works festival managed to pack a unique idea into a small running time. While it is ce…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:51PM[SHARE]There is a certain uncanny valley effect to the popular theatrical adaptation. The more well-oiled productions of a play there are, the less vital the story will feel. This is not to say tha…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]There is a certain acuity and adroitness in presentation and delivery that must be fostered in order for one act plays to be successful. To conceive of a one act play—a scenario, a colle…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:28PM[SHARE]In the past few years drag culture has begun to stake its place in the public eye. Drag queens have, of course, been around forever but shows like Rupaul’s Drag Race have provided recent i…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:10AM[SHARE]I stumbled upon a conversation rather surreptitiously the other day at a coffee shop, feigning productivity and industriousness, that centered around theatre and its import to those ensconce…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:18PM[SHARE]It’s especially moving to revisit this particular geography—a place once so painful, and so overwhelming, and to so tangibly get to recognize the distance one travels in life, especially…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:19PM[SHARE]Longevity and loyalty weave strong bonds, so as the venerable Pittsburgh Savoyards begin their 79th season, it’s clear to one of Pittsburgh’s longest running companies. When it comes to …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:15PM[SHARE]
