Author Archives
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A Christmas Carol at Carnegie Stage
Just when you think no one can do anything new with A Christmas Carol, off the WALL Productions is here to surprise you with Mark Coffin’s one-man rendition of Charles Dickens’ 19th-century classic. Throughout 90 minutes, Coffin plays a host… Read More ›
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Our Lady of Drubbleduffy at Pittsburgh Playwrights
Our Lady of Drubbleduffy is one of five new world-premiere plays by local playwright Ray Werner. This dramatic quintet makes up the Ray Werner Play Festival currently debuting at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. The play unfolds in the small, forsaken… Read More ›
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Sweat
Some stories are critical to get right. The Pittsburgh Public Theater’s latest production, Sweat, is one of those stories. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play traces the ripple effect of layoffs among a group of steelworkers. While Nottage’s play is set… Read More ›
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Midnight Radio: Frankenstein
Bricolage Production Company prides itself on producing adventurous theater. As their Midnight Radio series enters its tenth season of producing 1940s era radio shows, they stay true to that mission. They pull the thread on the Halloween season creep-factor with… Read More ›
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Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror
Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror is an adaptation by Anthony Dodge and Marcia Milgrom Dodge of a 1976 mystery novel by Nicholas Meyer. Like many literary adaptations for the stage, this one could do with some scene consolidation…. Read More ›
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Hamlet
The Steel City Shakespeare Center is devoted to bringing theatre to the underserved and breaking down notions that Shakespeare is only accessible to people of a certain class, income or educational level. Choosing to perform their latest production, William Shakespeare’s… Read More ›
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PNWF Program A: 2018
The 28th annual Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) once again awes with an admirably ambitious line-up. The festival features four programs (A-D) over a three and a half week span. Each program showcases three new one-act plays, each produced by… Read More ›
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Funny Money
Director Rick Campbell chooses to open Ray Cooney’s play, Funny Money, at the South Park Theatre with the song “Love and Marriage.” The tune provides a peppy backdrop as housewife Jean Perkins (Renee Ruzzi-Kern) completes the finishing touches for a… Read More ›
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The Inspector General
Director Connor McCanlus’ deep experience as a comedian and improv artist shines in Throughline Theatre Company’s uproarious production of The Inspector General. McCanlus doesn’t limit the production to dialogue-driven humor. He is attuned to character and layers in well-timed physical… Read More ›
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Gloria
For anyone who has ever experienced office life, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Gloria, presented by Hatch Arts Collective, is both funny and relatable. There’s a host of recognizable characters, including the office ice queen, the outcast, the gossipmonger, the intern, the… Read More ›