By SHARON EBERSON Little Lake Theatre is ready to ring in its 77th season in 2025 with good news not often heard these days. The Washington County company that bills itself as “the region’s premier community theater” is reporting record-breaking… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON It’s been a bumpy road to get to the best-of list, with a forecast of potholes and promise for the foreseeable future. So fasten your seatbelts, and let’s go. If achievement were assessed solely in artistry, then… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON To begin with, descending into the depths of the Stephen Foster Memorial, I was immediately transported into the combined worlds of Dickens and Doyle. With immersive staging, moody music and heartfelt performances, the meticulously crafted production of… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Amid a sea of 2024 A Christmas Carol adaptations on Pittsburgh area stages, for the comfort and joy of my own traditions, I chose a couple that began on Friday the 13th: First, Pittsburgh CLO’s A Musical… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Head to Google, and you will find tens of thousands of folks asking the burning question, “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” Bricolage Productions, back in the Midnight Radio business after a five-year hiatus, has this to… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON The Bennet sisters and their beaus have some unfinished business to attend to, two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice. So ingloriously did Jane Austen make that cad George Wickham the husband of the impetuous… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON It’s A Musical Christmas Carol for the hat trick, in Charles Shaughnessy’s 21-year journey with Pittsburgh CLO. The UK-born 5th Baron Shaughnessy, who most TV audiences discovered via the soap Days of our Lives and primetime’s The… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON On a celebratory night of songs and surprises, Front Porch Theatricals announced the company’s 2025 summer shows, both Tony Award rivals for best musical in 1984. They are: Baby, a seven-time Tony nominee, comes to the New… Read More ›
2025 Mainstage Shows set at South Park South Park Theatre launches into the holiday season with Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!), a co-production with Mon River Arts, along with the announcement of its 2025 mainstage shows The… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Everything old is new again isn’t just a saying this holiday season. It’s a promise of more of what has proven popular, and in one case in particular, a welcome back. Bricolage Production Company’s popular Midnight Radio… Read More ›
