It can be easy to look around the world and think about how people can seem evil. Heck, working in food service it can happen daily. While the morality of human beings can be debated for hours on end, I… Read More ›
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A Streetcar Name Desire
Point Park University’s Conservatory Theater Company has opened its production of the timeless A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams at the Pittsburgh Playhouse this past weekend. This story is about a severely tormented woman seeking sanctuary with her sister… Read More ›
Lunch Lady Cabaret
Must there always be a bedazzling display of flashing neon lights bundled with the magical glitz and glamour of resplendent people as they take their seats in some opulent theater. The lights dim. Rapt attention focuses the people as the… Read More ›
Lovecraft’s Monsters
Having only briefly heard a mention of Howard Phillip (H.P.) Lovecraft in a high school literature class many years ago, I really had no idea what to expect walking into the Maker Theater for the first time on Friday night… Read More ›
All the Names
As I pulled up to the Allegheny Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and then got back in my car and looped around to the former Northside Library (thinking to myself that I should’ve paid more attention to that preceding instructional e-mail… Read More ›
The Rocky Horror Show
My love for The Rocky Horror Show stems back to high school. I was a shy kid and the classic 70’s cult film was weird, sexy, and made absolutely no sense to me. But damn it felt fun. It led… Read More ›
Oblivion
A wannabe novelist, an aspiring young filmmaker, an extremely liberal HBO executive, and a 17 year old fighting with her identity and religion bring together the cast of City Theatre’s production of Oblivion by Carly Mensch. This incredibly quirky and… Read More ›
Endless Lawns
Endless Lawns is an example of excellent execution of a poor plan. The problems with the production cannot be attributed to those who put together this incarnation of the play (its world premiere); the acting, set design, lighting and pacing… Read More ›
The Disappearing
The Disappearing, a reading presented on Saturday night came across as very entertaining, and yet now it’s gone! Edgar Allen Poe’s works still can make a splash while remaining completely relevant to modern theater and literature. This past Saturday, Michael… Read More ›
Carmen
Carmen, an opera in four acts, with music by the French composer Georges Bizet, is set to a libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who used a novella by Prosper Mérimée as their inspiration. It was not particularly well received when… Read More ›