Saturday, June 20, 2026
By GUILHERME YAZBEK Upon entering the New Hazlett Theater for Resonance Works’ production of Roméo et Juliette, one is struck by how little there is to see. Four simple platforms cove…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2026
By Guilherme Meletti Yazbek Before the curtain rises, The Great Gatsby – A New Musical already begins to build its world. The sound of waves and distant seagulls drifts through the Bene…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2026
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Before the curtain even rises at the Benedum Center, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has already begun casting its spe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:17PM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2026
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Upon entering the George Rowland White Theater for CORNINGWORKS’ Foolish Assumptions, the audience is met by a sparse black-box arrangement: two black woode…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:47PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2026
By GUILHERME YAZBEK Upon entering Attack Theatre for the informal showing of Jeanine Durning’s The Play presented in Pittsburgh this past Friday, one is met by a sparse scenic arrange…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2026
By Guilherme Meletti Yazbek Presented over two evenings as part of Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Freshworks program, A Conversation, by multidisciplinary artist LaTrea Derome, unfolded as …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2026
By GUILHERME YAZBEK Yesterday, as I made my way to downtown Pittsburgh on the bus, I found myself trying to recall what I remembered about the musical Little Shop of Horrors. Not much, as i…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:31PM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2026
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK 5, 4, 3, 2, 1—lift off! This is not the much-narrated Apollo 11, nor is it the latest Artemis II mission. In fact, the subject here is not the renewed space ra…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2026
By GUILHEREME MELETTI YAZBEK There is something inherently unstable about a mixed repertory program. Unlike a full-length work, which unfolds through a sustained aesthetic trajectory—devel…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Between dazzling spectacle and subtle reinterpretation, this revival reveals how even the most familiar fairy tales continue to evolve alongside the societies that keep retelling them. By GU…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2026
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Annie, for me, had long occupied that part of memory where many musicals live: works I know something about, but whose details have faded. Yet as soon as the hou…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:41PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2026
By GUILHERME YAZBEK A tale as old as time is about to take over Pittsburgh. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast arrives in the city in a dazzling new North American tour—the first major U.S. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2026
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Opening nights tend to be pleasant occasions, with warm audiences often made up of members of the creative team, family, and seasoned theatergoers. I have the imp…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Last night, at the wonderful Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, Maria Caruso’s Bodiography presented Intersections, a performance that—true to its name—stages enc…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:23AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
By GUILHERME YAZBEK The Riverfront Theater Company is currently presenting the production that closes its Sapphire Season, celebrating the group’s impressive 65 years. Next to Normal pr…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2025
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Last night was Halloween, and arriving at the opulent Benedum Center was an experience in itself. Zombies, witches, and all manner of creatures roamed freely th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 18, 2025
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Pittsburgh CLO’s production of The Rocky Horror Show, now running at the Greer Cabaret, delivers top-tier entertainment while adding its voice to the fight …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2025
By Guilherme Meletti Yazbek This one-act play by multidisciplinary artist and actress Moire del Carmen is the result of a creative process developed during the Freshworks artist residency …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK In This Moment celebrates the 15th anniversary of Texture Contemporary Ballet, and the company takes the stage with maturity and strong presence. Under the arti…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Nick Fradiani as ‘Neil – Then’ (center) and ‘The Noise’ in A Beautiful Noise The Neil Diamond Musical – (Image credit Jeremy Daniel) By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Guilherme is a Br…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2025
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK (Guilherme is a theatre actor, director, and educator currently pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.) I felt like an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK A community theater production marking Bruce Zewe’s debut as a playwright, with a simple and honest script well worth seeing. Last night, I went to see Coach a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:44PM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2025
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Guilherme is a theater actor, director, and educator specializing in actor training. He is pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2024
By MARIA SCIULLO Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is your onstage summer cocktail, an unabashedly silly musical by Jeffrey Lane (book) and David Yazbek (music and lyrics). Against a rum-punch-hu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:39AM[SHARE]Friday, October 29, 2021
By Sharon Eberson It wasn’t a raucous crowd that welcomed Broadway back to Pittsburgh Thursday night. But then, the musical they were seeing wasn’t that kind of show. It was an appreciat…
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