For the last offering of a season that seems to have just begun, Pittsburgh Opera will present Donizetti’s melodious and comic Don Pasquale – an 1834 opera buffa with a 1950’s Hollywood spin – beginning Saturday evening, April 27. The… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Savors “Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical” at The Byham Theatre
Our teenage years are our most tempestuous and our most formative. We take advantage of our diminished inhibitions, delighting in perhaps reckless behavior. At the same time, we find ourselves plagued with anxiety about the constructs we’re forced into and… Read More ›
“Forever” Serving You Realness with moon baby
Drag and performance art offer some of the most cleverly-referential, divinely carnal, lavishly absurdist, outlandish, and stunning performances and characters that enrich and complicate the conventions of theatre and performance. And yet, as a product of race and class schisms,… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Dance Week: Nick M. Daniels and Flipping Convention
Pittsburgh Dance Week is coming upon us, the week of April 8th-April 14th. Whether you are a trained dancer, or someone who just loves to groove and wants to experience movement with other like-minded souls and bodies, this will be… Read More ›
Musical of the Month: “A Little Night Music”
Do I Hear a Waltz? is a little-known 1965 musical with a dream creative team that found themselves on a nightmarish road to Broadway. Originally, Arthur Laurents was set to adapt his play The Time of the Cuckoo as… Read More ›
Jean-Luc Tingaud on Pittsburgh Opera’s Upcoming “La bohème”
Audiences worldwide have flocked to Puccini’s perennial favorite since the 1890s, making it a safe bet that the days of writing anything new about La bohème expired decades ago. So it’s interesting to look back on what writers had… Read More ›
Spring Preview 2019
A Letter from the Editor, Friends, we have finally staggered our way through the unforgiving winter, plagued with days of 20 hours of darkness and a massively disappointing awards shows. Yet, while the winter was mercurial and bleak, Pittsburgh in… Read More ›
Spring Preview 2019 Countdown
It is a rare instance in my life that my severe OCD, and my hopeless yet unapologetic love of theatre get to intersect so harmoniously as they do when I get to make a list of theatre things I am… Read More ›
Electrified Bodies and Minds: Dance in Pittsburgh Spring 2019
Too often in constructing and pondering artistic criticism, I find myself hesitant or outright balking at the prospect of reviewing or discussing dance. Academically trained to understand and espouse an informed passion for film and theatre, I felt that the… Read More ›
Stage 62 Puts Dreamers in the Spotlight
With its remaining 2019 productions, Stage 62 raises a glass to those who dream. Following last month’s winning production of the YA musical Junie B. Jones The Musical, the company will be presenting shows featuring characters whose hopes and wishes… Read More ›