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…
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]Sunday, August 21, 2016
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]Tuesday, August 16, 2016
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]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
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]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
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]Tuesday, August 2, 2016
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]Monday, August 1, 2016
“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]Saturday, July 30, 2016
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]Thursday, July 28, 2016
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]Wednesday, July 27, 2016
“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]Monday, July 25, 2016
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]Sunday, July 24, 2016
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]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
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]Monday, July 18, 2016
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]Sunday, July 17, 2016
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]Saturday, July 16, 2016
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]Thursday, July 14, 2016
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]Tuesday, July 12, 2016
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]Wednesday, July 6, 2016
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]Tuesday, July 5, 2016
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]Monday, July 4, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
[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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:34PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
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,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:31AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:03AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2016
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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