When putting on a Shakespeare play in modern times, it’s important to approach it in a way that can appeal to a modern audience (at this point, I take a puff of my pipe). But seriously, in my time as… Read More ›
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Otello
Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello, not heard in Pittsburgh in over two decades, accomplished the rare feat of bringing a local audience to its feet for a very long and thunderous ovation, when it became the first of Pittsburgh Opera’s performances for… Read More ›
Murder for Two
This week I was given the opportunity to see the regional premiere of Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair’s whodunit musical, Murder for Two at the Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret Theater. Filled with fabulous characters, wonderfully talented actors and a beautiful design,… Read More ›
SCarrie: The Musical
The Bricolage Production Company is drawing a lot of laughs from the audience with their Midnight Radio production of SCarrie: The Musical. Midnight Radio is a live comedy series in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast featuring a live… Read More ›
The Last Day of Judas Iscariot
This weekend saw the opening of Throughline Theatre Company’s final installment of their 2014 Mortality and Divinity based season. Directors Kaitlin Kerr and Liam Macik turn the 2005 script by Stephen Adly Guirgis into a beautifully acted and designed piece. … Read More ›
The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs
Off the Wall Productions has started their season off strong with the production of The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs. If this show is any hint at what the rest of the season has to bring, then… Read More ›
Outside Mullingar
There are a lot of things to think about after seeing Outside Mullingar. The new play by John Patrick Shanley (author of the fantastic Doubt) deals with themes of getting older, planning ahead for life, unrequited love, and death. It’s… Read More ›
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie is set in the small apartment of the fatherless Wingfield family, comprised of Amanda and her two children, Tom and Laura. Tom spends his days working a job at a shoe factory, scribbling stories and poems whenever… Read More ›
Macbeth
There’s a superstition in the theater world that saying the word “Macbeth” in a theater will lead to something bad happening to the production, rumored because real witches cursed the script. So either the PICT Classic Theatre company was very… Read More ›
Sons of War
There are countless stories about war. Some stories are about the effects war has on a country or on history. Others are more personal, about say how one man survived the worst time of his life. Then there are some… Read More ›