By SHARON EBERSON
Everything old is new again isn’t just a saying this holiday season. It’s a promise of more of what has proven popular, and in one case in particular, a welcome back.
Bricolage Production Company’s popular Midnight Radio live shows, dormant 2019, is roaring back with Die Hard N’At at barebones productions’ Braddock theater, starting December 6, 2024.
Bricolage, which had been headquartered Downtown for nearly 20 years, announced in 2022 that it would make Community Forge in Wilkinsburg its new home. Midnight Radio comes to Braddock while Bricolage awaits the groundbreaking of the new theater and event space.
The series’ old-timey radio scripts, with accompanying sound effects, are all ’Burgh-centric originals, based on well-known stories. The Bricolage adaptation of the classic 1988 action flick Die Hard is by Gayle Pazerski and directed by Bricolage founder and co-artistic director Jeffrey Carpenter.
The 2024 team at the mics is composed of award-winning actors and past performers Tami Dixon (Bricolage’s co-artistic director),Patrick Jordan (actor, director and artistic director of barebones), Wali Jamal, Jason McCune and Sheila McKenna.
“We’re smack in the middle of rehearsals and loving every minute of it,” Dixon said in a recent email. “We can’t believe we’ve been away from the professional version of Midnight Radio for five years. Time sure does fly. What a blast to get the band back together!”
The band, she explained, consists of herself, Carpenter, McKenna and Jordan, from the first Midnight Radio in 2008, while Jamal and McCune “were in our pilot season! Wali was the winning playwright of the Midnight Radio Series smackdown.”
“Finally, we’re back,” said Carpenter in a statement. “This one is going to be truly special. I can’t wait to see our audience in person for the first time since 2019.”
A long debated point among movie fans has been: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie just because it takes place during the holiday? One thing that is not debatable – Midnight Radio’s comeback is cause for joy this holiday season.
Brisk ticket sales and interactions with Bricolage’s fans has helped Dixon to realize “how much of a holiday tradition it had become for so many Pittsburgh families.”
TICKETS AND DETAILS
Die Hard N’At runs Thursdays through Sundays from December 6 – 22, 2024, at Barebones Black Box,1211 Braddock Ave., Braddock. Tickets: www.bricolage pgh.org. Bricolage’s immersive escape room, The Mind’s Eye in Shaler Plaza, is open for private bookings. Learn more at https://entertheimaginariumpgh.com/.
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