By Eva Phillips The tides of change are cruel in the sleepy town of Mullingar. Anthony and Rosemary neighbors nestled in the bucolic Irish farmlands, have worked tirelessly to keep their farms and parents going as long as they can… Read More ›
Month: September 2019
Laughs Galore at Little Lake’s “A Comedy of Tenors”
The audience is sent to 1930s Paris where the story unfolds around four tenors, two wives, and three girlfriends in one hotel room while there’s preparations for the concert of a lifetime in a packed soccer stadium. As long as… Read More ›
PNWF Program B: 2019
By Brian Pope What’s better than one opening night? Four opening nights! For the last 29 years, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival has been a champion of the one act play. Each festival sees 12 plays receive full productions across… Read More ›
“Julius Caesar” Slays Expectations in PSIP’s All-Female Adaptation
By Eva Phillips The balance of power is erratic and volatile. Can those who thirst for power and reign over others ever do so without corruption, or without the megrims of self-interest overtaking the objectiveness of their rule? And when… Read More ›
Arcade Comedy Theater Mines Comedy Gold in “Bubble Boy: The Musical”
By Brian Pope In her ever increasingly maniacal efforts to cloister her son safely in the nest (or bubble, as it were), the conservatively hardwired Mrs. Livingston carefully curates (or rather cruelly censors) the culture he consumes. Jimmy grows up… Read More ›
“The Lion King” Roars Majestically at the Benedum
By Eva Phillips At this point, writing a review of the astronomically popular and enormously profitable onstage adaptation of The Lion King feels a bit superfluous. 25 years after the world was introduced to Simba, Mufasa, Zazu, Timon and Pumba,… Read More ›
Inside Marya Sea Kaminski’s Striking, Eclectic Vision for Pittsburgh Public’s New Season
Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski’s lineup of plays for her second season at the Pittsburgh Public Theater seems at first glance to ramble all over the theatrical landscape. She ranges from warhorses like “Barefoot in the Park” to current… Read More ›
Fierce Female Voices Drive “Julius Caesar” at Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!” Iconic. Evocative. Declarative. Historic. But even the canon, once considered untouchable, needs a little revamping and re-imagining. Who was obfuscated, overlooked or silenced in the classics that founded our dramaturgical literacies? What… Read More ›