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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:10PM[SHARE]College campuses throughout the city are springing back to life with students moving into their dorms, buying books and preparing for another semester of learning. With schools gearing up fo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]Inspired by success and tradition, Pitt Stages launches a season that reflects the aspirations of the University of Pittsburgh’s diverse student body beginning on October 6. The production…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:34PM[SHARE]The Hatch Arts Collective is far from the first people to draw a direct line between the Earth and the complex lives of its most pollutant children, but they may very well be the first peopl…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:19AM[SHARE]I’ll be harangued if I describe this play like a Disney movie. But that’s so much what it is! A lovely Disney movie! A callback to the heyday of Disney movies! An Aladdin or Beau…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:18AM[SHARE]At the heart of most scholarship surrounding horror stories there lies a single question: when we observe a monster, what is it were seeing, really? Are we more afraid of Frankenstein’s mo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:26PM[SHARE]Today we are engaged in the longest running war in U.S. history and still struggle with issues of racism, gender equality and class disparity. Question: Can a vintage musical address the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:37PM[SHARE]“Every story, new or ancient……all are tales of human failing, all are tales of love at heart.” Originally debuted on Broadway in 2000 and the winner of four Tony Awards, Elton John…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]While I sat in the New Hazlett Theater to see the opening show of American Idiot, back in my small West Virginia hometown the community theater had their opening show of Grease. They are put…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]A man, rises to power from nothing, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers along the way, whose fame and status eventually became the center of controversy for his inseparable fate with …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:19PM[SHARE]“Et tu, Brute!” You may recall that line from your high school Latin class. Until I attended the Throughline Theater’s opening night of Julius Cesar last week, I was convinced that I h…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:56PM[SHARE]It’s all over now, and truth be told, I miss it already. The season was extended this year, but somehow seemed shorter than previous ones. This is easily explained by the fact that each su…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:39PM[SHARE]Oh, how does one describe Mr. Holmes? It’s seems like such a simple thing to do, but it’s so terribly complicated. To capture the man’s essence in a review would take too long and ulti…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:21PM[SHARE]I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dimitrie Lazich about this year’s “SummerFest.” The gifted young baritone has proven to be a comic and vocal delight as the slightly buffoo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]This show is magnificent. It’s heartbreaking in the best way. Cathartic gold, Midwestern tea. It’s chock full of that Kansas-grade, square-state repression: a good device to wind u…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:36PM[SHARE]If you’re of a certain age then you probably think the movie Shrek is a classic. And you’re correct: Shrek was a movie that mainstream audiences had never seen before. The hero was disgu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]To fans and students of the theater, Shakespeare is a lot of things: the world’s most brilliant cartographer of human emotion, one of the greatest playwrights of all time, and the genesis …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]The show began innocently enough—Billy, a young man, impulsively stowaways on an ocean liner to England in hopes of winning the heart of a young lady, Hope, who happens to be engaged to …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:44PM[SHARE]Critics of all varieties of storytelling use phrases like “cheap tactics” and “emotionally manipulative” when describing certain works – imagine one of the dozens of films where a …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:53PM[SHARE]Let’s make one thing very clear: I will not being doing any stupid baseball puns in this review. Damn Yankees has been around for over fifty years, and I’m sure every possible joke has b…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:45PM[SHARE]CORRECTION: The original post stated Daina Michelle Griffith’s monologue was pre-recorded when it was actually performed live backstage. Tact Theater’s double-feature of Beckett’s Not …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:05AM[SHARE]
