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]It was my first time seeing a production by The New Renaissance Theatre on Saturday evening and after a very rainy Pittsburgh week it was refreshing to be able to attend a sunny outdoor perf…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:44AM[SHARE]I often can’t defend the “classic” musicals to my peers. Shows like Guys and Dolls andAnything Goes can be hard to explain to modern audiences, and you have to say things like “It’…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:37AM[SHARE]Opera Theater of Pittsburgh (now in its 38th year) will begin its fourth “SummerFest” on Friday, July 10, at the Twentieth Century Club in Oakland. First up will be that evening’s pr…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:46PM[SHARE]On Friday evening I had been afforded the honor of attending opening night of the playBrewed written by Scott T. Barsotti, and Directed by Steven Wilson. This production, performed by the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:33PM[SHARE]I was excited to see another show at the New Hazlett Theater this past Friday having thoroughly enjoyed my previous experience of All the Names in roughly the same location. Although these p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:46PM[SHARE]Why do you go to the theater? Or to the movies or to a comedy show or what have you? “To be entertained” is the common surface answer, but a deeper underlying reason could be to escape y…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:09PM[SHARE]I had the fortune to be at the opening night of the Little Lake Theatre Company’s production of Lucky Guy. The theater provides a bar to cool your thirst, and they provide an enjoyable men…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]Out of This Furnace, adapted for the stage by Andy Wolk from the novel of the same name by Thomas Bell, is currently in its second revival at Unseam’d Shakespeare. Having been produced by …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:15AM[SHARE]Having never been, I was excited to visit the quaint yet vibrant Grey Box Theatre on Butler Street in Lawrenceville. Living just up the street from it, I always pass by on my adventures for …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:17PM[SHARE]I’m not someone who’s crazy about Disney in my adult years. Adults who are too into Disney make me uneasy, because I wonder if they know about things like sarcasm or “adult themes”. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:11AM[SHARE]Here’s a fact: Barbra Streisand has a mall in her basement. Whereas most people would put their stuff in cardboard boxes marked “crap”, Streisand had her basement turned into a makeshi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:58AM[SHARE]PICT Classic Theatre, back in its Main Stage located within the Stephen Foster Memorial, the Charity Randall Theater, has brought to life the Comedy, How the Other Half Loves. The play, by A…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:12AM[SHARE]This past weekend I was given the opportunity to see Little Lake Theatre’s newest production, The Best of Everything which is running through June 13. I was excited to see Little Lake’…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:44PM[SHARE]Knickers is a difficult play to review. The play – about four western Pennsylvania women who create underwear in an attempt to revitalize their destitute little town – has the qualitie…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:34PM[SHARE]Nothing yells rom-com louder than meeting a stranger in a bar and proceeding to party for three days straight. Yet, although Midsummer, running at City Theatre, contains this, it penetrates …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:14AM[SHARE]Everyone can look at a relationship, be it romantic or otherwise, and analyze every minute of it. Impressions of the relationship vary depending on who’s recalling it and what point in tim…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:10PM[SHARE]It was a sold out show on Thursday at the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre as yinzers far and wide gathered to see August Wilson’s 1983 play, Fences. The performance takes place in the 1950s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:21PM[SHARE]Remember field trips in school? Where they’d bus you out to some fun location for the day and you’d learn about something different or maybe tour a place rich in unique history? I don’…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:09AM[SHARE]Detroit, as presented by the 12 Peers Theater has produced the sizzling play written by Lisa D’amour. From May 14th through the 30th this production can be seen in Shady Side at the Make…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:20AM[SHARE]Billed as a ‘modern day Our Town,’ barebones productions opened Miki Johnson’s American Fallsthis weekend to multiple sold out audiences. Johnson’s story tells the small town of Am…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:09PM[SHARE]Day two of the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival down, one to go! Today’s schedule initially had me seeing The Heritage Players’ Old Time Family Radio at StorySwap but due to construction and t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:15PM[SHARE]It’s that time of year again kids! The Pittsburgh Fringe Festival kicked off its second annual festival May 8th and we’re in for even more fun than last year! First on my list of things …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:49PM[SHARE]Mysteries, murders, and the tales of whodunit come alive as South Park Theater presents the energetic, entertaining, and oh so hilarious, Something’s Afoot. Yes, South Park Theatre kicked …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]On Saturday night PICT Classic Theatre opened the second and final installment of their Downtown Series with Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Despite the title, Brel passe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:19PM[SHARE]As a writer, I am not often at a loss for words. But, when I went to see The Whale at Off the Wall Performing Arts Center (OTW) on Saturday night, I left the theater practically speechless. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Few people define the American experience like that of The Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra. His songs, his voice, his style have captivated generations of Americans and he still can.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:15AM[SHARE]“I didn’t like it… I LOVED it.” That’s what 6-year-old Maggie Martin said about her first night out at the theater—and, given the show she saw, it’s kids like her whose opinion…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:12AM[SHARE]It can be easy to look around the world and think about how people can seem evil. Heck, working in food service it can happen daily. While the morality of human beings can be debated for hou…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]Point Park University’s Conservatory Theater Company has opened its production of the timeless A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams at the Pittsburgh Playhouse this past weekend.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:02PM[SHARE]Must there always be a bedazzling display of flashing neon lights bundled with the magical glitz and glamour of resplendent people as they take their seats in some opulent theater. The light…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:57PM[SHARE]
