Tuesday, September 15, 2015
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]Thursday, September 10, 2015
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]Monday, September 7, 2015
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]Thursday, August 27, 2015
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]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
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]Monday, August 17, 2015
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]Sunday, August 16, 2015
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]Monday, August 10, 2015
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]Saturday, August 8, 2015
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]Wednesday, August 5, 2015
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]Monday, August 3, 2015
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]Friday, July 31, 2015
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]Sunday, July 26, 2015
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]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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]Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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]Monday, July 20, 2015
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]Sunday, July 19, 2015
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]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
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]Monday, July 13, 2015
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]Sunday, July 12, 2015
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]Thursday, July 2, 2015
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]Wednesday, July 1, 2015
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]Saturday, June 27, 2015
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]Wednesday, June 24, 2015
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]Tuesday, June 23, 2015
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]Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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]Thursday, June 11, 2015
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]Wednesday, June 10, 2015
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”. …
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