Thursday, June 20, 2019
A stunning cast and handsome designs support the retelling of superbly satisfying adventure with one of the most popular detectives, Sherlock Holmes. He is quite at home on the Charity Ra…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Well-matched for Quantum Theatre’s latest performance space, William Shakespeare’s King Lear reigns in the postindustrial majesty of the Carrie Furnaces National Historical Landmark. Pla…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2019
Bernstein. Copland. Galbraith. American Serenade, a musical feast of substantial American works, celebrates the sixth season of Resonance Works | Pittsburgh through masters of the past centu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Cast off winter’s darkness and wallow in the light of spring with Prime Stage Theater’s Twelfth Night, a frothy, witty, and thoroughly entertaining confection through May 12. Kudos to…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2019
There’s no other story like it. Betrayal, suffering, and death. Christ’s Passion is the dramatic finale of Jesus’ life on earth, retold in myriad wa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:44AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2019
An essential Gilbert and Sullivan for newbies and long-time fans alike, the Pittsburgh Savoyards’ Spring production The Gondoliers or, the King of Barataria, deserves your attention. Super…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:26PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2019
The Tempest at Pittsburgh Public Theatre is a brave new production for our times. “Past is prologue.” So Shakespeare’s 1611 text benefits from all that has come before, reflecting the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 8, 2018
Effervescent, nostalgic, fresh and full of light, A Joyous Sound from Resonance Works | Pittsburgh is all that a delightful holiday gift should be. The company honors chorale traditions and …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 11, 2018
A tradition for Shakespeare has propelled the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh Stages for decades. Commitment to the classics inspired the Three Rivers Shakespear…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 3, 2018
The hopes and fears of parents multiply exponentially when your child is a young black man. Likewise statistics shared in City Theatre’s program support that black students (male and femal…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 20, 2018
America’s musical legacy is celebrated in an effervescent On the Town, bubbling over in honor of the centenary of composer Leonard Bernstein and the opening of the sixth season for Resonan…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 14, 2018
Reflecting the turbulent and changing times of the Renaissance, Pittsburgh Savoyard’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid dishes up…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 6, 2018
The Atomic Bomb overshadowed the stories of many of the scientists who created it not to mention their long-suffering families who relocated Los Alamos, New Mexico during the work. Liza Birk…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:29PM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2018
August Wilson’s own biography and his plays chronicling life in Pittsburgh’s Hill District during the 20th century are well suited for an actor who fits the bill for How I Learned What I…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Memories and human curiosity are ethereal things. Our memories later buoy us as we retain them, let them go, or morph them into what we want them to be. Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a wise, w…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
The poignancy of life’s arrivals and departures resonate in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Hamlet, the final production of Ted Pappas’s tenure as artistic director. From the opening quest…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Storytelling by singers carried the March performances of Resonance Works | Pittsburgh as works by David Lang opened and closed a moving and fascinating program at the historic Homewood Ceme…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Like a good New York City supermarket that has everything its neighborhood needs, a strong play like Cori Thomas’ Citizens Market serves up multi-layered characters and their captivating p…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:43PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2018
Hearing a musical work or experiencing a play for the first time is exhilarating. When the “new” piece is a 122-year-old Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, there’s a rare combination of th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2017
Painful stories and shameful histories benefit from the illumination of dramatization. While the audience views past events in almost real time, we are required to look and perhaps to learn.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2017
“Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?†-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice Master playwright Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem at Quantum The…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2017
Belfast Girls deserves attention for the aspiration of founder and director Rich Kenzie in this debut production at Carnegie Stage through Sunday, Oct. 29 only. Belfast Girls, developed at t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2017
In the close quarters of Little Italy, old New York is an appropriate volatile and steamy backdrop for the feuding families and young love in PICT Classic Theater’s new production of Shake…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:25PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2017
The voices and stories of Pittsburghers bring the Battle of Homestead to life in Mark Clayton Southers’ The Homestead Strike of 1892. Dramatic historical interpretation by some of the regi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 21, 2017
The waiting in life takes up a lot of our time–waiting for the next big thing, the next job, the next person. Ironbound’s Darja reconfirms out that anyone who takes public transportation…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, April 10, 2017
Playwright meets tyrant. What could possibly go wrong? In a former slaughterhouse behind Bakery Square, Quantum Theatre takes audiences into the world of John Hodge’s Collaborators. Certai…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:15PM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2017
The girl who couldn’t hold on to a guy is the victorious heroine of Sweet Charity, on stage of the equally spunky and iconic Rockwell Theater at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in Oakland. The co…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2017
Adoring and adorable, Twelfth Night serves up all the courses of Shakespeare’s infinite variety at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. It’s a sunny production in this midwinter of discontent …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2016
Sometimes romantic, occasionally funny, and always unsettling, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice makes audiences squirm. The play mirrors not only the historic anti-Semitism of the late…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2016
An intriguing mythical adventure featuring puppets and actors runs just this weekend at the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination. Felicia Cooper, director and puppet artist, conceived this co…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is playing at one of Pittsburgh’s most charming landmark settings. Marsha Mayhak created her stage version for Steel City Shakespear…
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