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Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks’ Week of Will Preview
We’re almost a month away from William Shakespeare’s birth and death day, April 23rd, and that means we’re coming up upon Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks’ fourth annual Week of Will. Yvonne Hudson, a board member of PSIP and the… Read More ›
“Moby-Dick” Coming to Pittsburgh Opera
Pittsburgh Opera will continue its mission of giving contemporary American operas a hearing when the four-performance run of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s critically acclaimed and much publicized Moby-Dick begins at the Benedum next Saturday night, March 17. The work… Read More ›
Spring Preview 2018
A letter from the Editor, Well gang, we made it through another Pittsburgh winter. A few tires may have been sacrificed to the Goddess of Potholes but we all made it through in one piece, right? All erratic weather aside,… Read More ›
Front Porch Theatricals Finds Universal Truths in Two True Story Musicals
Front Porch Theatricals—three words have become synonymous with musical theatre prestige in the city of Pittsburgh—has more than fulfilled its ambitious mission statement over the last six years. The company’s upcoming season, made up of two quirky musicals based on… Read More ›
Inclusion and the Unknown: Pittsburgh Fringe Festival 2018
“I guess I’d call it…an interactive Bingo comedy.” I’m sitting at a coffee shop in the North Side, typing away at first draft of my coverage for the 2017 Fringe Festival, which (for me) began with Joey Buchecker’s Betsy Carmichael’s… Read More ›
Igniting Creativity with CLO’s SPARK Festival
Mention the CLO to most Pittsburghers’, and they think of the series of Broadway Musicals presented during the summer months at the Benedum. Some people will mention the CLO Cabaret at Theatre Square. A few folks who are in the… Read More ›
Little Lake’s 70th Anniversary Season!
Hearing Little Lake Theatre’s artistic director, Jena Oberg, talk about the theatre’s upcoming 70th anniversary makes you want to immediately join the Little Lake family. Little Lake is steeped in tradition without descending into a dated stuffiness one might automatically… Read More ›
5 Musicals You Don’t Want to Miss This Spring: 2018
You can feel spring is just around the corner and the spring crop of musicals is about ready to bloom at our area theater companies. Our featured five, listed in order of opening dates, includes the classic Broadway dance and… Read More ›
Quantum Makes Way for the Next World Premiere: Inside Passage
Producing new and adventurous works in unexpected spaces is for Karla Boos, artistic director of Quantum Theatre, but the tradition she has created thrives where you might least expect to experience a play. That mission is next realized with the… Read More ›