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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Last weekend, Point Park’s Conservatory Theatre Company opened its production of The Bluest Eye, adapted from Toni Morrison’s book by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Monica Payne. This …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Last Saturday, February 20th, Kimberly Richards was back in Pittsburgh teaching her class titled Sister’s Easter Catechism: Will My Bunny Go To Heaven? and schooling the audience on where …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:40PM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
To all eager readers, yes you get a glimpse of naked men, but the surprising strength of The Full Monty isn’t in the stripping of clothes, but rather in the stripping of the pride and dign…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 20, 2016
A first date can be a living hell. Unless you’ve had very serious surgery or were a prisoner of war, you’ll probably agree first dates are hell. Two strangers who know absolutely nothing…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
Stunning designs. Electrifying dance moves. And your classic 70’s disco. Yes, I am talking about the show that made the world fell in love with John Travolta. No I’m not talking about Gr…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
The time is 1950. You are in New York City. And you’ve got a lady friend to flatter. What do you do? Fast forward to 2016. You are now in the Steel City. Same situation. How can you win ov…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 30, 2016
After the lights go down in the spacious Javo Studios in upper Lawrenceville, a woman walks onstage with a glass of wine and a deck of cards. She sits at a table and begins to deal out a gam…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2015
“I want some more!” Having just reviewed Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s newest production of Oliver in October, this was the first line popped into my head when I first heard the news th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 12, 2015
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley is a torrent of frustration, confusion, and kindness as two socially bereft characters make an awkward attempt at finding happiness. Adrif…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Red is the color of passion, energy, and action. Macbeth is fueled by these same psychological elements on his prophetic and treacherous path to the throne of Scotland. The Pittsburgh Classi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2015
For my second big show in Pittsburgh I had the great fortune to see Bricolage Production Company’s Yinz’r Scrooged Friday night, which is part of their Midnight Radio series. I don’t t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:23PM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
Walking in to see my first Quantum Theatre production ever I had no idea what to expect. Chickens in the Yard by playwright Paul Kruse has given me a unique style to continue to look forward…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2015
A couple of months ago I saddled up to my Netflix and watched the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? For an hour or so I absorbed the story of singer/activist Nina Simone and got teary …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 15, 2015
Some shows you just hear the name of or see a poster for and they scream “Comedy!” or “Tragedy!” or “Musical!”. In the case of A Servant to Two Masters at the Pittsburgh Public, …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Sight is arguably one of the most essential senses. With sight, one is able to perceive texture, color, and light. The Conservatory Theater Company at Point Park University brings each aspec…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 31, 2015
Thanks to my public school system I was never made to read 1984, the classic dystopian novel by George Orwell. I was instead subjected to The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby, neither of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:37PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
“Consider yourself, at home! Consider yourself, one of the family!” As the young actors and actresses sing and dance away on Byham Theater’s stage in the fabulous tunes of Lionel Bart…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:47PM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2015
If given the choice of eating tiger meat to receive $20,000 or not, I’d eat the meat. In José Rivera’sBrainpeople brought to you by Throughline Theatre however, the characters at a dinn…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
“Perhaps nothing touches our imagination more deeply than a story that begins with those four magic words—‘once upon a time’”, said Angela Lansbury at the 1988 Tony Awards, introdu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:28AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
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]Sunday, October 11, 2015
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]Saturday, October 10, 2015
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]Saturday, October 3, 2015
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]Friday, October 2, 2015
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]Thursday, October 1, 2015
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]Monday, September 28, 2015
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]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
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]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
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.…
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