New Horizon Theater returns to Layon Gray’s history plays with the regional debut of his new work about a shameful chapter from history. Layon Gray’s Feed the Beast, opening February 13, 2025, at the O’Reilly Theater, spans 40 years and… Read More ›
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Review: Timely Satire Fuels Public’s Fiery ‘Trouble in Mind’
By SHARON EBERSON Actress Wiletta Mayer has been invisible in plain sight, without even realizing it. But that’s about change. After 25 years as a performer, the Black actress has earned what should be the role of a lifetime. She… Read More ›
Front Porch Theatricals Names Casts for Summer 2025
Current weather aside, Front Porch Theatricals is ready to swing into summer, with the announcement of the casts of its two-show season. First up is Baby, May 16-25, 2025, at the New Hazlett Theater. With music and lyrics by Richard… Read More ›
Pittsburgh’s Hiawatha Project Bids Farewell After 15-Year Run
Anya Martin has announced the end of the 15-year-old Hiawatha Project, as the company’s founder exits to pursue her burgeoning playwriting career beyond Pittsburgh. Martin is the founding artistic director, lead writer, director and producer of the company, whose mission… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Public Has Had ‘Trouble in Mind’ Since Before Its Broadway Debut
By SHARON EBERSON The headline of The New York Times review declared: “ ‘Trouble in Mind,’ 66 Years Late and Still On Time.” That was in 2021, when Alice Childress’s 1955 play made its Broadway debut, to the tune of… Read More ›
Not Forgotten: U.S. Premiere Illuminates Contributions of 18th-Century Abolitionist Benjamin Lay
Director Ron Daniels and historian Marcus Rediker recount the play’s journey to Quantum Theatre By SHARON EBERSON Side by side on the Zoom screen, avoiding icy streets and freezing temperatures, were the eminent director Ron Daniels and award-winning historian and… Read More ›
Christopher Rivas’ Life Changed When He Discovered ‘The Real James Bond Was … Dominican’
By SHARON EBERSON A magazine article that cast James Bond in a new light changed Christopher Rivas’ life. Vanity Fair wasn’t the first to write that Ian Fleming’s enduring 007 character was inspired by the life of Porfirio Rubirosa, a… Read More ›
Marya Sea Kaminski Sets Exit Date From Pittsburgh Public Theater
The search is on to replace artistic director, who will leave after seven years to ‘have a more expansive and personal response artistically to the world’ By SHARON EBERSON Marya Sea Kaminski, who guided Pittsburgh Public Theater through the pandemic… Read More ›
Comtra Theatre Closes After 42 Years in Cranberry
This article first appeared in Pittsburgh Magazine. By SEAN COLLIER Comtra Theatre, the community theater organization that has presented plays and musicals in Cranberry for decades, is closing. A statement posted to the organization’s Facebook page blames financial factors for the decision…. Read More ›
Barebones Opens 2025 with Solo Show ‘Unreconciled,’ Told by Survivor of Clergy Abuse
Barebones productions will kick off 2025 with Jay Sefton’s one-man autobiographical show Unreconciled, written by Sefton and Mark Basquill and directed by Geraldine Hughes. The play, in which Sefton channels multiple characters, arrives in barebones’ Braddock Black Box Theater January… Read More ›