‘RENT’ AT THE GREER
The Greer Cabaret continues asthe Downtown place to be for locally produced musical revivals. Coming up in September: BDE Productions rents the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust venue for “Rent,” directed by Peter Matthew Smith.
Michael McKelvey’s return to Pittsburgh includes producing and directing musicals with Pittsburgh theater artists, starting with “Assassins,” the Sondheim-Weidman show with Carnegie Mellon roots.
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of September, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly. Opening This Week Continuing Their Run Opening Next Week (August… Read More ›
FRONT PORCH GETS TO THE HEART AND SOUL OF ‘COME FROM AWAY’
Front Porch Theatricals’ second summer season offering is the first locally produced version of the 2017 Tony Award-nominated musical, with brilliant staging harnessing the chaotic energy and performances that dig deep into individuals whose lives were shaped by he 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the mostly hidden story of what happened next.
By CLAIRE STEVENS South Park Theatre’s production of Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti delivered a humorous evening with memorable characters and amusing theatrics. Directed by Jeanie Cygrymus, the play follows Bernard (Johnny Terreri), who is engaged to three different flight attendants with conflicting schedules. When flight… Read More ›
By Guilherme Meletti Yazbek (Note: This post has been updated with new images from the performance.) Ten minutes before eleven, I was already sitting on my folding stool, in the place where I was told the performance would begin. At… Read More ›
By JESSICA NEU When maybe-a-doctor, but definitely not a Mrs. Joan Watson (Erin Berger), arrives at 221B Baker Street to inquire about an open room, she quickly realizes that she will be sharing a space with an eccentric, sometimes erratic, Russian symphony-loving… Read More ›
With news about … PBT receives $1 million grant; PSO Passport unveiled; The Next Act, and The Next …; naming the merged Pittsburgh Public & Pittsburgh CLO; Squonk’s Joy Machine; Dallas, Texas, presenter/producer merger; and more.
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of September, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly. Opening This Week Continuing Their Run Opening Next Week (August… Read More ›
TALKING “COME FROM AWAY” WITH LISA ANN GOLDSMITH AND DREW LEIGH WILLIAMS
Lisa Ann Goldsmith was “a plane person” on September 11, 2001, bound from Ohio for her home in New York. Drew Leigh Williams was in a rural PA high school, near Harrisburg. With the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks almost upon us, the musical “Come From Away” is a reminder that, amid the devastation and trauma, there also were generosity and kindness at work. For Front Porch Theatrical’s upcoming production, Goldsmith plays the role of Beulah Davis, a composite of real-life residents Beulah Cooper and Diane Davis. Williams will don the uniform of the pioneering American Airlines pilot, Captain Beverly Bass.
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