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  • Pride and Prejudice

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    A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is playing at one of Pittsburgh’s most charming landmark settings. Marsha Mayhak created her stage version for Steel City Shakespeare Center’s singular production at Heathside Cottage, a cozy Victorian home in… Read More ›

  • An Accident

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    Step into this bad dream: a debilitating pedestrian accident. In An Accident, Lydia Stryk draws on her own accident experience to place both in an injured woman’s hospital room. This unsettling dramatic juxtaposition allows both the inner thoughts and conversations… Read More ›

  • Hand to God

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    Meet Tyrone: a puppet on an evil mission in the small town of Cypress, Texas. City Theater’s production of Hand to God is Pittsburgh’s premiere of Robert Askin’s Tony-nominated play. For imagination alone, Askins deserved that nomination. For outrageousness and… Read More ›

  • Shirley Valentine

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    Karen Baum infuses the title character of Shirley Valentine with the spunkiness we’ve come to expect from this versatile Pittsburgh-based actor in PICT Classic Theatre’s season opener, running since Labor Day weekend at the Union Project. What better time to… Read More ›

  • Seven Guitars

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    First things first. Pittsburgh-born playwright August Wilson’s Seven Guitars matters now. So, get a ticket, go up to the house where his family lived on The Hill. Sit in the yard and hear the voices of mid-20th century America echoing… Read More ›

  • Venus in Fur

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    Titillating. Timely. Top-notch. It’s that Pittsburgh Public Theater production whose poster makes everyone nervously giggle or raise an eyebrow. You know, that one with the whip… Now that we have your attention… A dramatic thunderstorm is drenching Manhattan. Lights up… Read More ›

  • The Giver

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    Looking into a world where it never snows and no hills punctuate the landscape, Pittsburghers might be envious. However, it isn’t long before The Giver at Prime Stage Theatre reveals the flaws in a community designed to relieve its citizens… Read More ›

  • The Master Builder

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    Once more into the past, with a twist. Quantum Theatre’s Kara Boos take us to an adventurous setting via Henrik Ibsen, that master of modernity. The Master Builder, set on the ninth floor of of Two Allegheny Center at Nova… Read More ›

  • Miss Julie, Clarissa, and John

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    Works of art often inspire news works as Mark Clayton Southers by August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. His Miss Julie, Clarissa and John takes us to a former slave plantation in Virginia in 1888 where the dark cultural and economic legacy… Read More ›

  • Some Brighter Distance

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    A world premiere is a major commitment for any theater company. City Theater Company chose well with Keith Reddin’s Some Brighter Distance, directed by Tracy Brigden, in her 15th year as City’s artistic director.The play’s title and opening characters both… Read More ›

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