
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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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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