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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2016
“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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:17PM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:46PM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
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?…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:59PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:49AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:46PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:39AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:03AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:58PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:58AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2016
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
After being rejected from the Edinburgh International Festival in 1947, eight theatre companies decided to create their own edgy opportunity by conceiving the Fringe Festival. Fast forward 6…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Two glasses of water sit on a table. One glass is pure, the other poisoned. Richard Keitel reads Nassim Soleimanpour’s words for the first time with revelation, by the end of this performa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 9, 2016
On my way to the Pittsburgh Playhouse the other night a rare thing happened: I was late. My bus was behind schedule and I had to run down the street, making it to the studio theater at 8:01…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:27PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2016
Around the world this month, as the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s passing, thespians are especially recalling how they “met” Shakespeare. So, I’m now asking other Pittsb…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
When giving tours as a docent at Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, I gleefully relished showing off a digital copy of a 400-year-old book. The words in the book a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
As the third show of Pittsburgh Musical Theater (PMT)’s “Magnificent Movie Musicals” season this year, Sister Act is an excitingly soulful production filled with blessings, laughs, g…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:33PM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2016
Sex with Strangers is an examination of anatomy, not solely the physical intimacy that the two characters’ share, but also the anatomy of a writer’s work, how once purely exposed is some…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]Whether it’s movies, concerts, sporting events, or plays, everyone has their own form of escapism. Everyone has something they like to attend so they can forget about what’s going on in …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 19, 2016
A good play has a message and uses the plot to make that message known. It creates developed characters who go through (usually) trying times and they learn something about themselves by the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 6, 2016
Mark Clayton Southers experienced August Strindberg’s Miss Julie as translated by Irish playwright Frank McGinnis back in 2008. While attending the Dublin Theater Festival, Southers consid…
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