Saturday, July 19, 2025
By JESSICA NEU The windows are open, and so are the doors, as the Benedum Center welcomes Disney’s Frozen: the Broadway Musical, based on the Disney film that shifted the cultural zeitge…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:47PM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2025
By JESSICA NEU I went to the prom my junior and senior year of High School. My date and I gleefully danced amongst all of our friends to “Get Low” and “Hollaback Girl.” Were they the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Heinz Hall’s iconic red stage curtain remained closed last night. It gracefully draped the stage, but hung back toward mid-stage to frame the space for a piano, uprigh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
onStage Pittsburgh dispatched Sharon Eberson and Jessica Neu to review Marya Sea Kaminski’s final production at the Public. You can read Sharon’s review here. By JESSICA NEU Shakespeare…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:48PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
By JESSICA NEU After a successful tribute performance to the incomparable Carole King, Ron Carter, President & Executive Director of the Strand Theater decided that Beautiful: The Carole…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:56PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2025
BY JESSICA NEU (Updated with more images from the production.) Shakespeare’s Macbeth tells the tragic story of Macbeth, a general who receives a prophecy from three witches that he will …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:02PM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2025
By JESSICA NEU This past January, playwright Darrin Friedman and director Art DeConciliis debuted Friedman’s original play Three Blind Mice. After achieving commercial and critical su…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 17, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Pregnancy is a strange thing. Every woman’s journey to finding out they are expecting differs. Sometimes, it is expected; sometimes, it is a complete shock. Not to mention t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Clouds in My Coffee is a Perfect Tribute to Mitchell, King, and Simon. Conductor Ted Sperling leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:11PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Sugar. Butter. Flour. At first glance, they seem like simple ingredients—Staples of any household. However, for Jenna (Zanny Laird), these are the ingredients to life. Ma…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 3, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Where were you on 9/11? If you are currently older than 30 years old, you likely have some memory of that day. I was in 3rd-period geometry class when the first plane hit. I b…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 27, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Edward Albee’s 2002 play, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? is an edgy, heavily-debated tragicomedy that pushes theatrical plot boundaries. Director Caitlin Dobronz and Assis…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:05PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2025
By JESSICA NEU I listened to a podcast hosted by Meghan McCain a couple of weeks ago. She and her guest were discussing the idea of work-life balance. McCain mentioned that she does not li…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2025
By JESSICA NEU In celebration of her company’s 60th anniversary, renowned choreographer Twyla Tharp presents a Diamond Jubilee of two iconic, career-spanning productions. The first, D…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Chatham Baroque and Concert Theatre Works are presenting the world premiere staging of J.S. Bach’s long-lost Markus Passion in Pittsburgh on April 11, 2025, at Carnegi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2025
By JESSICA NEU It’s April 7, 2000. You have a pager, a fresh new outfit from either Pac Sun, Delia’s, or Charlotte Russe, and you are ready to watch MTV’s Total Request Live. 98 Degr…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2025
BY JESSICA NEU It’s 2025. Your aerosol Aqua Net cans have been empty for decades, and you traded in your Trans Am for a three-row SUV. Pop music is a little less synthesized, there are not…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Coring Works proudly presents its latest work in The Glue Factory Project series, Stand By – An Allegory. The performance features critically acclaimed performers, inclu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2025
BY JESSICA NEU I have had the pleasure of attending multiple shows at Liberty Magic. Each time, stage manager Zoe Ruth enthusiastically greets the audience. She introduces the acclaimed ma…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 2, 2025
By JESSICA NEU Theatrical performances function in countless ways. Some shows are purely for entertainment. Some carry a timeless theme but still make us laugh. Some shows evoke a sense of n…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2025
By JESSICA NEU The Bodytraffic company flew onto the Byham Theater stage last night. Continuing the Pittsburgh Dance Councilseason, artistic director Tina F. Berkett and creative part…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2025
By JESSICA NEU A digitized body of calm water titled “Life of Pi” transformed the traditional curtain at the Benedum Center into a pool of tranquility. The bold blues of the water and th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 25, 2025
BY JESSICA NEU Sometimes a theatrical performance comes along that is more than a show. The words, songs, or actions penetrate your brain and speak to your soul. A core memory is create…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:44PM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2025
By JESSICA NEU The second in a series by onStage’s writers looking back on the past year’s performances. In 2024, Russell Wilson became a Steeler, and we were ‘totally eclipsed,’ …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2024
By JESSICA NEU There was a buzz in the air at Heinz Hall last night before the Pittsburgh Symphony took the stage to perform along to the 2003 British Comedy Love Actually on Decembe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2024
By JESSICA NEU Based on Jean Shepherd’s 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, A Christmas Story the play, has morphed into a holiday classic. Beginning with the film in 1983…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2024
By JESSICA NEU With Heinz Hall perfectly adorned with its traditional Christmas decorations and a host of brass instruments meticulously set on the proscenium in front of the closed stage cu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2024
By JESSICA NEU After we wrap up the holidays and have picked up all the bottles on New Year’s Day, the PNC Broadway series continues with the classic musical Funny Girl at the Benedum Ce…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 7, 2024
By JESSICA NEU Each year, as the holiday season draws near, there are countless symbols, themes, metaphors, and representations of Christmas. The spirit of Christmas is all around, from song…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2024
BY JESSICA NEU What comes to mind when you hear the name Michael Jackson? Perhaps “King of Pop,” Genius, the moonwalk, a Glove, white socks and black shoes, the Jackson 5, Bubbles the C…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2024
BY JESSICA NEU I was a senior in High School when I was first introduced to the multi-hyphenate Broadway extraordinaire Jason Robert Brown. My friends at CAPA were doing Parade as their S…
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