Monday, March 9, 2015
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2015
In their 77th season, The Pittsburgh Savoyards opened their latest production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado Friday night. Specifying “Gilbert and Sullivan” may be a bit redundan…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Like a lot of young men who went to college less than ten years ago, I am a fan of Mel Brooks. I can quote Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles for hours. I think The Producers is an excellent mus…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 28, 2015
When Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts premiered in 1882 it was deemed incredibly controversial and disgusting for what it portrayed on stage. These days it takes a bit more to shock an audience, and …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:17PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
Sometimes when watching an old TV show or movie you may ask, “Did people ever really talk and act like that?” Shows like The Brady Bunch were so squeaky-clean and optimistic you have to …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2015
A packed house filled the Philip Chosky Theater on Friday night preceding Dorothy (Annie Yokom), Aunt Em (Johari Mackey), and Uncle Henry’s (Ethan Crystal) appearance on stage. While I had…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]PICT previewed its world premiere of For the Tree to Drop, written by Lissa Brennen and directed by Alan Stanford, last week. This show is a snapshot of life on a plantation in the 1860s and…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
Once upon a time; in the deepest and darkest part of the forest there is a murder. A murder complete with screaming, lots of screaming, and blood, lots of blood. To hear the story of this da…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 14, 2015
You can do a lot of things for Valentine’s Day. You can go to a super crowded restaurant with your significant other and gaze desperately into their eyes, questioning whether your love is …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Existence and the Single Girl, by Pittsburgh playwright Matt Henderson and produced by 12 Peers Theater, opened last week at The Maker Theater in Shadyside. This world premier production doe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2015
Prussia: 1866 is very much a classic comedy of manners; a high speed, high energy fiasco featuring politics, deception and a number of love affairs. I find myself reminded of the 1939 film R…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
I will say this for Quantum Theatre: they know how to spoil their audience in terms of location and dining. To match the stand-up comedy theme of Brahman/i, Quantum has set up shop at “The…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:01AM[SHARE]Mr. Joy, which is thought of as a sequel of sorts to Daniel Beaty’s first popular solo work, Emergency!, illuminated the stage for a packed house on Friday, January 30. Emergency!, which t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2015
The Pittsburgh Public Theater is taking audiences to the streets and ballrooms of London with its production of My Fair Lady that opened this weekend. Based on George Bernard Shaw‘s book …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2015
If you were a girl who grew up in the 90’s (such as myself) you’d most likely be able to name all of the Disney princesses by heart. I always swore when I grew up I’d show my kids all.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:56AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
Before Off The Wall Theatre’s production of Or begins, the actors walk out onto the stage and begin organizing their costumes, props, doing vocal warmups, and a bit of light mingling with …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:55PM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2014
The glory of war and courage of our veterans are two topics our country never shies away from speaking about, but when it comes to the repercussions it can have on our soldiers, who are ofte…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2014
When asked to pick a favorite musical my mind would not automatically go to Urinetown. Then I see a production of Urinetown and I think “wow, this is a really perfect show”. It has the m…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2014
The Bricolage Production Company opened its premier of It’s a Wonderful Life, part of the Midnight Radio series, to a sold out house on Thursday evening. Most people are familiar with th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
I’ve worked in retail for quite a few holiday seasons and I will attest that it gives you a really jaded view of the holiday season. Nothing titillates me for Christmas anymore. The songs …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2014
I have been fortunate enough in the last few months to see two productions of Tennessee Williams’ works. Last month I saw the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s The Glass Menagerie and then mor…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
The second installment in the Pittsburgh Public Theater‘s “Season of Legends” is the world premiere of a new play that is chock full of…well, legends. The play is called L’hotel (t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:49PM[SHARE]Evita follows the life of Eva Perόn (played by Cynthia Daugherty), second wife of Argentine President Juan Perόn (played by Leon Zionts). The story begins with Eva’s young adulthood as a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:40PM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
There’s a difference between seeing Avenue Q when you’re in college and seeing Avenue Q almost four years after college. When I saw it in college I was all “HA! Puppets saying fuck and…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2014
When putting on a Shakespeare play in modern times, it’s important to approach it in a way that can appeal to a modern audience (at this point, I take a puff of my pipe). But seriously, in…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
This week I was given the opportunity to see the regional premiere of Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair’s whodunit musical, Murder for Two at the Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret Theater. Filled with fa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:50AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
The Bricolage Production Company is drawing a lot of laughs from the audience with their Midnight Radio production of SCarrie: The Musical. Midnight Radio is a live comedy series in the styl…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2014
This weekend saw the opening of Throughline Theatre Company’s final installment of their 2014 Mortality and Divinity based season. Directors Kaitlin Kerr and Liam Macik turn the 2005 scr…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Off the Wall Productions has started their season off strong with the production of The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs. If this show is any hint at what the rest of the season has to br…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
There are a lot of things to think about after seeing Outside Mullingar. The new play by John Patrick Shanley (author of the fantastic Doubt) deals with themes of getting older, planning ahe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:59PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
The Glass Menagerie is set in the small apartment of the fatherless Wingfield family, comprised of Amanda and her two children, Tom and Laura. Tom spends his days working a job at a shoe fac…
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