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”. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:11AM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2015
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]Sunday, May 31, 2015
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]Monday, May 25, 2015
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]Sunday, May 24, 2015
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]Saturday, May 23, 2015
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]Friday, May 22, 2015
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]Monday, May 18, 2015
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]Friday, May 15, 2015
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]Sunday, May 10, 2015
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]Friday, May 8, 2015
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]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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]Sunday, May 3, 2015
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]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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]Saturday, April 25, 2015
“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]Thursday, April 23, 2015
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]Monday, April 20, 2015
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]Thursday, April 16, 2015
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]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Having only briefly heard a mention of Howard Phillip (H.P.) Lovecraft in a high school literature class many years ago, I really had no idea what to expect walking into the Maker Theater fo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2015
As I pulled up to the Allegheny Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and then got back in my car and looped around to the former Northside Library (thinking to myself that I should’ve paid more …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:40PM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
My love for The Rocky Horror Show stems back to high school. I was a shy kid and the classic 70’s cult film was weird, sexy, and made absolutely no sense to me. But damn it felt fun. It le…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
A wannabe novelist, an aspiring young filmmaker, an extremely liberal HBO executive, and a 17 year old fighting with her identity and religion bring together the cast of City Theatre’s pro…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:07PM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
Endless Lawns is an example of excellent execution of a poor plan. The problems with the production cannot be attributed to those who put together this incarnation of the play (its world p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2015
The Disappearing, a reading presented on Saturday night came across as very entertaining, and yet now it’s gone! Edgar Allen Poe’s works still can make a splash while remaining completel…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
Twelve years after August Wilson performed his final play, the Pittsburgh Public Theater presents the Pittsburgh premiere of How I Learned What I Learned. The play is an autobiographical loo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Prime Stage Theatre states the following two principles in their mission statement “… to entertain, educate, and enrich…” and “to bring literature to life.” These goals are both …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
What do light boxes, aerial performers and copious amounts of plastic wrap have in common? They all were at the Quantum Theatre’s annual Q Ball Saturday night. Held at the work-in-progress…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:07PM[SHARE]City Theatre provided lots of laughs with its Pittsburgh premiere of Elemeno Pea by Molly Smith Metzler. This comedy of minimal manners bursts at the seams with the personalities of just fiv…
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