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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Krapp’s Last Tape/Not I by Ghoover

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 …

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Monday, July 4, 2016

Church Basement Ladies by Ghoover

There are few examples in modern history of a mass culture growing as rapidly as America did during the 1960s. It was the ‘60s that saw us making radical pushes for equal rights, legitimiz…

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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Bloody Hell by Ghoover

[the_ad id=”2996″] I knew nothing about James Michael Shoberg’s Bloody Hell walking into the unassuming McKeesport Little Theater, nor did I understand what, exactly, Rage of the Stage…

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Monday, June 13, 2016

Judgement at Nuremberg by Ghoover

Throughline Theatre’s Judgment at Nuremburg is a particularly sober show.  I noted the lines that got laughs.  There were three in its entirety. Despite the somber context (military trib…

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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The Theatre Festival in Black and White, Delivering Fantastically by Ghoover

This was the first year that Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Festival in Black and White was done in conjunction with the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. An institution at 937 Liberty Ave,…

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Monday, June 6, 2016

The Consorts by Ghoover

Somewhere in the second act of The Consorts, which is currently in production by The Summer Company at Duquesne University’s The Genesius Theater, I fell in love with the play. The exact m…

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Summer Preview 2016 by Ghoover

A Letter from the Editor To our beloved readers, As most of you know, Pittsburgh in the Round has been working over two years to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of the local theate…

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Another Round of 10 Minute Plays! by Ghoover

Get out your gram’s poodle skirt and slip on the Ray-Bans for some summer lovin’ at the 10 Minute Play Fest. This DIY theater cabaret that rolls out thrice a year and it happens again on…

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A Quarter Century of Quantum by Ghoover

There’s always something brand new at Quantum Theatre. Returning audiences know that they may experience theater as some locations only once as they visit niches of Pittsburgh poised for r…

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“SummerFest” Is In the Air! by Ghoover

Opera Theater of Pittsburgh’s 5th annual “SummerFest” is coming soon, and promises many musical treats – and the innovative company has a standing track record of making good on its …

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Sunday, May 29, 2016

The Spitfire Grill by Ghoover

Living in a small town can mean a lot of things. Some are happily comfortable and take pride in their town. Others view it as a prison that they have no idea how to escape. But for some folk…

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Saturday, May 28, 2016

The 39 Steps by Ghoover

In my past trips to CLO’s Cabaret Theater, I’ve seen a fast-paced farce (Boeing-Boeing) and a cutie pie musical (First Date) that both featured casts running around playing multiple char…

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Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Lion by Ghoover

Yes, it’s THAT good. As the grand finale of its 2015-2016 season, City Theatre’s latest Main Stage production The Lion invites Pittsburgh audience onto a soulful journey with a heart-war…

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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Assassins by Ghoover

“Attention must be paid!” In the midst of another Presidential Election year with gun violence and gun control at the center of everybody’s attention, it seems perfectly appropriate to…

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Monday, May 16, 2016

Cock by Ghoover

Cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states (and the District of Columbia). Kinetic Theatre breaks the law and replaces the roosters with sharp performances in a production that is just as blun…

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Friday, May 13, 2016

Two Tales of Terror by Ghoover

The Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater (PICT) is currently showing “Two Tales of Terror,” an excellently executed adaptation of the famous Edgar Allen Poe stories, The Tell-Tale Hear…

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

The Musical of Musicals by Ghoover

Have you ever wondered what if Jonathan Larson didn’t write Rent, but Rogers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, or Kander & Ebb wrote it instead?…

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Autism and the Arts: Bricolage Creates Sensory-Sensitive Immersive Experience by Ghoover

An enchanted forest has sprung to life in the heart of Pittsburgh as Bricolage Production Company presents Welcome to Here, a sensory-sensitive immersive experience designed specifically for…

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Spring Awakening by Ghoover

When PARK productions did The Rocky Horror Show a while ago they performed it at the CLO Cabaret on the set built for Boeing Boeing. While that sounds inconvenient it was actually a super fu…

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Monday, May 2, 2016

Tru by Ghoover

The only thing that would be more interesting than being Truman Capote, would be being Truman Capote’s switchboard operator. Capote was a famed novelist, screenwriter, and socialite known …

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PICT Conjures Poe’s Terror for Final Bows at Pitt before next Season at Union Project by Ghoover

Terror. Alan Stanford, artistic and executive director of PICT Classic Theatre, admits he loves the genre and that he read Edgar Allan Poe under the covers as a child. Didn’t we all? But n…

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Friday, April 29, 2016

Grease by Ghoover

It’s systematic. It’s hydromatic. It’s Grease the Musical! From the original 1972 Broadway premiere, to the 2016 Grease Live TV broadcast on FOX network, the story of Rydell High seem …

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ghoover

It goes without saying that One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a classic. The novel took readers inside a mental institution, humanized the patients inside, defined the “battleax nurse…

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Monday, April 25, 2016

One Stop Shopping: The Pittsburgh Fringe Festival Coverage 2016 by Ghoover

In case you missed any of our posts, here are every single one of our articles that we wrote about the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival this year. A very special thank you goes out to Xela Batchel…

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

A Word or Two from Pittsburgh Opera’s General Director, Christopher Hahn, on “The Rake’s Progress.” by Ghoover

Christopher Hahn, General Director of Pittsburgh Opera, was quite enthusiastic earlier this week when we discussed the company’s upcoming production of The Rake’s Progress, and I must sa…

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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Laws of Attraction by Ghoover

Hover-boards, ladders, ropes, lifts, jumps, tricks, and stunts! A phenomenal performance created by Attack Theatre, Laws of Attraction is an exploration into how humans incorporate concepts …

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The Last Match by Ghoover

I could fill a post-it note with all the knowledge I have of tennis. What little I do know I learned from playing Mario Tennis as a kid, and I’m pretty sure in real life the ball never bur…

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Losing Our Heads Over Shakespeare, Part 2: Pittsburgh Shakespeareans Admit Lifelong Attraction by Ghoover

When we left Part 1 of this mini-series on why Pittsburgh artists lose their heads over Shakespeare’s works, I took the liberty of supposing that his wife Anne might have held the clue to …

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Monday, April 18, 2016

Fringe Day 3: Critters! by Ghoover

I finished the Fringe Festival with a midafternoon showing of Critters by Puppets in Performance at the YMRC.  I was at this venue on Saturday and it nearly ruined the show for me but I was…

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Sunday, April 17, 2016

Fringe Day 2: Ukrainian Dance to One Man Shows to #BlackLivesMatter by Ghoover

St. Mary’s Lyceum, 11 am is how I began my Saturday Fringe Fest Ukie Fusion, a production by the Slava Dance Company was an eclectic mix of modern and traditional Ukrainian customs narrate…

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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Fringe Day 1: Passing Through and 5 Hams Fairy Tales by Ghoover

Friday April 15, the first night of Pittsburgh Fringe Festival took me to the James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy for Cup-A-Jo Productions, Passing Through.  A world premiere play which ta…

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