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Amy Ellefson is brilliant in Wit at the Iron Horse Theatre
The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Wit, by Margaret Edison, opened Friday to a nearly sold-out audience at the new and intimate Iron Horse Theatre in Ambridge. We meet Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., (Amy Ellefson) as she enters the hospital for what will… Read More ›
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The Old Curiosity Shop
PICT Classic Theatre opened their 22nd season with the theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens classic serialized novel The Old Curiosity Shop. PICT Artistic and Executive Director Alan Stanford adapted the novel for the stage at the Gate Theatre in Dublin… Read More ›
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Raphael’s Angels at Pittsburgh Playwrights
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company opened their 15th season Thursday evening with a month-long Ray Werner Play Festival, featuring five of his works. This performance was the world premiere of Raphael’s Angels. There are two major storylines in this play, Taryn (Jade Langan)… Read More ›
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Of Mice and Men
Prime Stage Theatre’s 22nd season – “The Season of Courage” – opened Saturday evening with John Steinbeck’s classic story Of Mice and Men. Based on the Steinbeck’s novella of the same name, the play tells the tale of two friends,… Read More ›
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The Mousetrap
Casting is a crucial element in the success of any production. It’s a crapshoot, and even more of a gamble in community theatre as the pool of actors is usually more limited. Alyssa Bruno Walls, the director of the Theatre… Read More ›
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Contemporary Choreographers at the Pittsburgh Playhouse
Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts (COPA) Dance Program opened their 2018-19 season with Contemporary Choreographers the first of six programs. This offering is four pieces by both emerging and established choreographers. It was a lovely night with no pointe… Read More ›
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The Speed of Sound opens Texture Contemporary Ballet’s 8th Season
Texture Contemporary Ballet opened its eighth season with The Speed of Sound at the New Hazlett Theatre on Friday evening. The program consisted of two premieres; Glass Walls with music composed by Phillip Glass and Forth Road Bridge with songs by Scottish band… Read More ›
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Macbeth
Little Lake Theatre opened their modern version of Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth Thursday evening. The production, directed by Little Lake’s Artistic Director Jena Oberg, uses the campus and theater to bring Shakespeare’s masterpiece of ambition, deceit, and madness to life. Shakespeare wrote… Read More ›
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Chatterton
As part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, Quantum Theatre’s ambitious, immersive World Premiere production of Chatterton, opened at the Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh September 14. Adapted by Karla Boos from Peter Ackroyd’s critically acclaimed novel by the… Read More ›