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…
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]Sunday, October 23, 2016
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]Monday, October 17, 2016
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]Thursday, October 13, 2016
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]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
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]Sunday, October 9, 2016
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]Thursday, October 6, 2016
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]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
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]Saturday, October 1, 2016
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]Saturday, September 24, 2016
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]Friday, September 23, 2016
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]Sunday, September 18, 2016
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]Friday, September 16, 2016
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]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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]Monday, September 12, 2016
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]Friday, September 9, 2016
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]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
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]At last, our hot and humid dog days of summer are yielding to fall, bringing with it quite an interesting range of offerings for musicals in the Steel City this season. We’ve got a bit of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:15PM[SHARE]To open its 78th season, Pittsburgh Opera will present the first of four performances of Verdi’s tuneful warhorse, La Traviata, on October 8, at 8:00 p.m. at the Benedum. The work is well …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:15PM[SHARE]A letter from the Editor, To our fantastic readers, We’ve done it; we made it through another Pittsburgh summer. Summer 2016 was a very big season for us. Not only did we review 34 shows a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2016
Shakespeare. What a hack, right? He forms a few couplets; uses iambic pentameter as a parlor trick; creates a convoluted plot a la Larry David that utilizes misunderstandings, unjustified …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
It’s a new day and a new venue for PICT Classic Theatre. “If you want immediacy, you have to change,” says Artistic and Executive Director Alan Stanford. Now the 19-year-old company mo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
This Saturday marks the beginning of the 12th annual Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks show; this year, they’ll be presenting one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies, The Comedy of Erro…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2016
True confession: I wasn’t initially thrilled at the prospect of attending a two and half hour musical about a man trapped in a cave in rural Kentucky. To me, the premise was dubious at bes…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2016
On a rainy Sunday I sat down with Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) director, Lora Oxenreiter. A board member for well over a decade, Lora instantly began talking about the time commitm…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2016
There is a certain, almost ineffable, quality of striking mimesis that courses through the entirety of The Summer Company’s staging of Christopher Durang’s 1978 bizarrely (at times even …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:23PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
Audacious drag queens, a surreal reimagining of The Tempest, the devastatingly pointed Harriet Beecher Stowe slave narrative, and the indomitable grimy charm of a deaf and blind pinball wiza…
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