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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Review: When Ballet Makes Us Laugh: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Friday, May 15, 2026

Review: Waiting for Movement: News of a Difference in Beth Corning’s ‘Foolish Assumptions’ by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Monday, May 11, 2026

Review: Perpetual Permutation: Exhaustion in Jeanine Durning’s ‘The Play’  by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Sunday, May 3, 2026

Review: Disidentifying on Stage: ‘A Conversation’ in Progress with LaTrea Derome’ by Guilherme Yazbek

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 …

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Review: Feeding Desire: On ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and the Logic of the Pact by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Friday, April 17, 2026

Review: Where the Earth Meets the Sky: On Grappling and Dancing Otherwise by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Intensity Without Resolution: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s ‘Spring Mix’  by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

‘Beauty and the Beast’: A Familiar Tale, Reimagined on Broadway at the Benedum by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

Review: The Optimism of Annie — and Why We’re Still Waiting for Tomorrow  by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Friday, February 13, 2026

Bringing a Tale as Old as Time Back to Pittsburgh, an Interview with Grace Marie Rusnica by Guilherme Yazbek

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. …

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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Review: Washing Dishes, Making History: Friendship, Labor, and Black Life on Stage at City Theatre by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Review: ‘Intersections’: Dance as Bodies Writing in Space by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Monday, November 17, 2025

Review: The Emotional Force and Contradictions of ‘Next to Normal’ by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

Review: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s ‘Dracula’ Delivers a Vividly Told Story with Visual Power and Dramatic Performances by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Review: ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ and the Subversive Joy of Queer Theater by Guilherme Yazbek

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 …

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Saturday, October 4, 2025

Review: ‘Baquiné’: A Love Letter to Theater and the Trans Art of Becoming by Guilherme Yazbek

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 …

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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Review: ‘In This Moment’: Texture Contemporary Ballet at Fifteen, Dancing Beyond Boundaries of Style by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

‘A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical’ Entertains and Delivers What Broadway Promises by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Review: ‘Campfire Stories’, an Ode to Americanness (Or Dang! There’s marshmallow smeared on my beard!) by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Saturday, August 9, 2025

Review: ‘Coach and Mrs. Jagoff and the Redemption of the White Man Who Didn’t Know How to Talk About His Feelings’ by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Friday, March 28, 2025

Review: ‘Speed: The Musical’—A Theatrical Ride You Don’t Want to End! by Guilherme Yazbek

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 …

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Saturday, June 29, 2024

REVIEW: ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ at the South Park Theatre by Guilherme Yazbek

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…

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Friday, October 29, 2021

Pittsburgh welcomes back a transcendent ‘Visit’ by Guilherme Yazbek

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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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off