Last Friday was opening night for City Theatre’s production of Connor McPherson’sThe Night Alive, directed by Tracy Brigden. This is a tale about a group of Dubliners scraping by in the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]The Pittsburgh Savoyards have been keeping the tradition of opera alive in the ‘burgh for 78 years of “laughing song and merry dance”. Continuing their love of Gilbert and Sullivan’s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:41PM[SHARE]And that they did! They are the Altar Boyz–another international hit boy band that recently “came” to town to entertain to the Pittsburgh audience. But this time, besides pop tunes, el…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Otto Frank walks up the stairs to the annex, slow. The weight of each step increases the higher he goes as he disrupts a ghostlike veneer of dust. He finds himself sitting at a kitchen table…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:27PM[SHARE]On Saturday night, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company welcomed home a local theatre icon by opening its 2015-2016 season with an up-tempo farce, Dulcy. While I may or may not be talking …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]How do you define Stand up Horror? This past Saturday I once again found myself at Modern Formations: a small gallery locked in the heart of the East End on Penn Avenue within a community …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:31PM[SHARE]Acceptance is a complicated thing: It’s easy to preach but hard to practice. Peace and Love are always the goal, but when it comes time to change things for the better and include everyone…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:19AM[SHARE]After four weeks of new theater full of joy and excitement, the 25th season of Pittsburgh New Works Festival is coming to an end. I was fortunate enough to be present at both the very first …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:26PM[SHARE]I recently had the privilege of attending The Carnegie Stage where The Pittsburgh New Works Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The Pittsburgh New Works Festival defines itself as …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]In Mathematics there is a very popular theory called the “Butterfly Effect”, which says that a butterfly can flap its wings over a flower in China and cause a hurricane in the Amazon rai…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:38AM[SHARE]This past Thursday brought me to one of my favorite venues The Little Lake Theatre, located in Canonsburg. The place has a special ambiance to it that few others in the area can achieve.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:26AM[SHARE]Summer draws to a close and we will soon feel the fall air tumbling down upon us. The trees will don their magical vestments of gold, orange, yellow, and red in a deluge of colors that will …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:50AM[SHARE]The desire to learn more is a complicated thing. You’re motivated by the wish to feel smarter, like the people you look up to for all sorts of subjects. But it is difficult to learn new th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:28PM[SHARE]25 years is nothing short of celebratory. In its quarter of a century return, The Pittsburgh New Works Festival manages to retain a gracious amount of humility and appreciation. These are bo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:38AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim once said, “To make art sound effortless takes a lot of effort.” And as a community we all understand how fulfilling but also challenging creating theater sometimes can…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:10AM[SHARE]Is anyone ever really prepared for love? That is the question asked by The Light in the Piazza, a musical about a mother trying to protect her daughter from the complexities of falling in lo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday’s have come to mean more than the day before Friday, or the day that the checks come in from clients. It has come to be so much more. I find it often brings opening night at a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:38AM[SHARE]This past Thursday took me to the Apple Hill Play House in Delmont, PA. Opening night had come for Ken Ludwig’s Be My Baby as performed by the Orchard Performing Arts Co. Haven’t hea…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:19PM[SHARE]“It’s not like anything I’ve ever seen before” – -was my first impression after I saw the World Premiere of Amiche’s new work The Heart of Shahrazad. Staging in the majestic Mans…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:29AM[SHARE]Friday night marks the end of the week and a time to unwind, a point to refresh and enjoy. What to do? Do we partake of drink at a bar, or pub? Perhaps we see a movie? These are the...…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:58AM[SHARE]I am usually rather skeptical of Shakespeare productions, whether modified or not. That being said, Urban Impact’s production of The Merchant of Venice proved to be a very entertaining. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:25AM[SHARE]At the time of this writing I am waiting for a new pair of shoes. I wore my old ones out to the plastic inside and they’re really starting to hurt. So I had to buy new ones. I hate... Read…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:50PM[SHARE]Every September for the last 25 years the Pittsburgh New Works Festival has brought together artists from all walks of life in their annual festival celebrating the art of writing new plays.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:16PM[SHARE]This past Thursday, the Little Lake Theater held its opening presentation of John Patrick Shanley’s, Outside Mullingar. My wife and I arrived with only moments to spare; we were shuffled t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:20AM[SHARE]Pulling up to the Apple Hill Playhouse on Thursday evening I wasn’t sure if I was about to see a performance or sing karaoke at a roadside country bar thrown in the middle of a residential…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]Alright, scoff if you must but here goes: I’m a fan of The Wedding Singer musical. It’s yet another musical based off of a popular movie (granted that trend wasn’t as popular when it p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:39AM[SHARE]Texture Contemporary Ballet’s latest performance, “Strength & Grace” beautifully echoed the words in the title through movement during the entirety of the performance. Each piece t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]I’ve seen quite a few Irish plays in my time that have been set inside little cottages or one room inside an old house. The walls look the same, as do the doors and decor, there’s usuall…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:08PM[SHARE]The phrase “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” probably has roots in the story of Medea, although back then it would’ve been “Hades hath no fury like a woman scorned.” One of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:29PM[SHARE]New blood must always be brought into the mix. The elders who hold the reigns are meant to pass them onto the next generation. It becomes the responsibility of those who have come before…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:59AM[SHARE]Sherlock’s a popular guy, isn’t he? I mean everyone knows who he is, but how many people have actually read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels? I’m not being uppity, I never read them…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:56PM[SHARE]
