Presenting onStage’s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, PSO, classical music, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. Follow onStage Pittsburgh for the latest Performing Arts news, previews and reviews. As we step into September, the unofficial… Read More ›
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 characters who slowly reveal bits of themselves, as pieces of an… Read More ›
By BOB HOOVER How many versions of Hamlet have we seen? In my life, at least a dozen. (I was an English major). My previous was at the Globe Theatre in London, a fast-paced, almost breathless production that seldom paused to let… Read More ›
By JESSICA NEU It’s the 1950s in New York City. The war is over, the lights are bright, the nights are long, and the bets are big in the classic musical Guys & Dolls. With music by Frank Loesser and book by… Read More ›
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, talking about their experiences with that most perfect of American musicals,… Read More ›
By BOB HOOVER Defeated, angry Black men are at the center of numerous August Wilson plays. Still, none is angrier and more dangerous than Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, now playing at the August Wilson House, 1727 Bedford Ave.,… Read More ›
Presenting onStage’s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, PSO, classical music, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. As we step into September, the unofficial commencement of the 2023/24 Performing Arts Season, you can explore the complete… Read More ›
New Horizon Theater will open the 2023-24 season with Webeime, a play by award-winning writer-director Layon Gray about the choices that brought a death-row inmate to his final day. The play will run September 28 through October 1, 2023, at… Read More ›
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, to borrow a… Read More ›
Shadows of Past Pandemics Surround Audiences at the Bitz Opera Factory, opening August 18th. Uncumber Theatrics invites patrons into the Lumintorium to witness Wee Beasties, a shadow play about fleas, disease, and a girl named Louise. Whimsically macabre and fairytale-esque, Wee Beasties revisits the nineteenth-century… Read More ›
