Author Archives
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Review: ‘In This Moment’: Texture Contemporary Ballet at Fifteen, Dancing Beyond Boundaries of Style
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK In This Moment celebrates the 15th anniversary of Texture Contemporary Ballet, and the company takes the stage with maturity and strong presence. Under the artistic direction of Pittsburgh choreographer Alan Obuzor, the program fulfills the company’s mission of inspiring… Read More ›
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‘A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical’ Entertains and Delivers What Broadway Promises
Nick Fradiani as ‘Neil – Then’ (center) and ‘The Noise’ in A Beautiful Noise The Neil Diamond Musical – (Image credit Jeremy Daniel) By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Guilherme is a Brazilian theater practitioner and scholar, currently pursuing a PhD in… Read More ›
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Review: ‘Campfire Stories’, an Ode to Americanness (Or Dang! There’s marshmallow smeared on my beard!)
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK (Guilherme is a theatre actor, director, and educator currently pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.) I felt like an alien at a Yankee Boy Scouts camp — and yet… Read More ›
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Review: ‘Coach and Mrs. Jagoff and the Redemption of the White Man Who Didn’t Know How to Talk About His Feelings’
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK A community theater production marking Bruce Zewe’s debut as a playwright, with a simple and honest script well worth seeing. Last night, I went to see Coach and Mrs. Jagoff, the new production by Iron Horse Theater Company,… Read More ›
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Review: ‘Speed: The Musical’—A Theatrical Ride You Don’t Want to End!
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Guilherme is a theater actor, director, and educator specializing in actor training. He is pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Speed: The Musical, is such a delightful theatrical experience… Read More ›
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REVIEW: ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ at the South Park Theatre
By MARIA SCIULLO Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is your onstage summer cocktail, an unabashedly silly musical by Jeffrey Lane (book) and David Yazbek (music and lyrics). Against a rum-punch-hued background of terraces and hotel suites set on the French Riviera, a couple of con men —… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Welcomes Back a Transcendent ‘Visit’
By Sharon Eberson It wasn’t a raucous crowd that welcomed Broadway back to Pittsburgh Thursday night. But then, the musical they were seeing wasn’t that kind of show. It was an appreciative audience, masked and vaccinated, that packed the Benedum… Read More ›
