Saturday, November 18, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Even as hell breaks loose in the Mamet masterwork American Buffalo, it is funny as hell, and full of heart. How perfect, then, that Patrick Jordan’s barebones productio…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:40PM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON City Theatre is taking a seat at Pittsburgh’s traditional holiday table, adding a dash of Jane Austen-inspired romance to a menu where Dickensian fare and Christmas-theme…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:51PM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON At a lanky 6 feet, 4 inches, Brenden Peifer is hard to miss, whether offstage or on. And this year, it has seemed he is always on. So far in 2023, Peifer could be seen in p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Belfast Company Kabosh Theatre’s Production About Finding Understanding Amid Conflict Comes to Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON An officer in a green uniform, on one side of a 30-year conflict…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2023
In Conversation With Writer Amber Ruffin and Costume Designer Sharen Davis By SHARON EBERSON I am going to go out on a pretty strong limb by saying that The Wiz is among the most important m…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2023
By Sharon Eberson You may wonder, is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? The stop-motion musical has a spot on Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the top 15 Chri…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 22, 2023
Passion and Hardship Follow Artist and his Lifelong Muse in ‘Flying Lovers of Vitebsk’ “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2023
COMMENTARY The Annual Show Is a Collaboration of Three Unions, Benefiting Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank By Sharon Eberson You can feel it all around you. It’s that time when the a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:10PM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2023
The Saturday and Sunday, September 30 and October 1, performances of Somewhere Over the Border were canceled “due to performer illness (non-COVID).” Continue to check the ticket site or …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:22PM[SHARE]Monday, September 25, 2023
City Theatre Opens 2023-24 With a Musical Work That Began in Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border began with “an epic conversation” between the perfor…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:37PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON The North American tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical was delayed twice by COVID, once when we were all on hold during the pandemic, and again for the first wave of the Om…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON In a full-circle, overdue moment, the words “Hi, I’m Billy Strayhorn,” are at last being said on a Pittsburgh stage. Conjuring the late jazz genius is Darius de Haas,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Jazz legend Billy Strayhorn’s story is a Pittsburgh story, in his lifetime and even now, when he is being celebrated with a world-premiere biomusical in the heart of the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 19, 2023
The Blind Musician Stopped by Westinghouse Arts Academy and Won Over a New Group of Fans By SHARON EBERSON The students flowing into the auditorium knew they were in the presence of someone …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2023
The show opens the revamped Greer Cabaret theater; cast member Brady D. Patsy sideline with broken ankle, replaced by Billy Mason By SHARON EBERSON Martha Banta had stayed away from directin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Monday, August 28, 2023
Q&A: James McNeel and Monteze Freeland on co-productions, revenue sources, fundraising and more to come… By SHARON EBERSON City Theatre’s South Side campus has been buzzing since its…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON From the moment you walk into the Benedum Center auditorium, you know: This is something different. The modernist design that greets you – a bedazzled backdrop and a neon…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO concludes its summer season tonight with a splash in a very splash season – the 77-year-old company’s first production of Natasha, Pierre and the Great C…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:40AM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON If by Brouhaha, Squonk means an uproar or cause for commotion, that’s about right for the news that a supersized musical outdoor spectacle is ready for launch. Brouhaha i…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Merrily We Roll Along is a musical notorious for its lack of merriment. But there is plenty of reason to make merry at the New Hazlett Theater, where the talent onstage and…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Front Porch Theatricals’ Production of the Sondheim Show Marks Leading Lady Griffith’s Musical Theater Directing Debut By SHARON EBERSON The musical Merrily We Roll Along is having a mom…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 12, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON The seductiveness of The Sound Inside takes hold with a sneaky persistence. Daring to forgo the fireworks of most mysteries, the cerebral drama instead engages with charact…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON In the midst of their whirlwind rehearsal schedule, Lesli Margherita and Matthew Saldivar – Pittsburgh CLO‘s Miss Adelaide and Nathan Detroit – were on the phone, tal…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON To be Hamlet is to be a student prince bound to seek revenge for his father’s death, and to be indecisive in the task. Anything else is as you like it. More to the point…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2023
Pittsburgh Playwright Theatre Company’s Annual Dive Into Wilson’s Work Was Playwright’s Favorite By SHARON EBERSON “When I first met August Willson, I said I liked Joe Turner the bes…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Elena Passarello Returns to the Stage for the Tony-Nominated Drama by Adam Rapp By SHARON EBERSON It doesn’t get much more barebones than the role of a well-known writing professor being p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:14PM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2023
The setting at the Carrie Furnaces site has moved outdoors during preproduction By SHARON EBERSON For all those who believe in destiny, it was preordained that Treasure Treasure was meant to…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:34PM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON When composer Stephen Flaherty takes his seat at the Benedum Center Tuesday, before the first notes of his score for Once on This Island begin to play, visions of his earli…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:58PM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON You may know Darius de Haas as the singing voice of Shy Baldwin on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, but musical theater fans know him as an accomplished Broadway artist. Soon, yo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON In a vignette during The Constellationist, the person at the center of the story is represented by a towering puppet with a smiling golden sun for a face. The people in Mar…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 8, 2023
BY SHARON EBERSON Don’t let the new name confuse you. Or maybe the old one did. RealTime Arts – the former RealTime Interventions – is back with a “community based” performance, …
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