Florencia en el Amazonas was performed Saturday night for the first time by Pittsburgh Opera, and the audience on hand at the Benedum was treated to a production that was brilliant to the ear and eye alike. The opera is… Read More ›
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Archived from Pittsburgh in the Round
Enjoy Being Haunted by PICT’s “The Woman in Black”
Sleep much? You might sleep for at least one night with your eyes open after The Woman in Black at PICT Classic Theatre. A joyful terror, this legendary dramatized ghost story runs through November 23 in the intimate Fred Rogers… Read More ›
Can You Detect the Truth in “The Ravages of Now”?
Non-State Actors latest production tackles cults and their susceptible nature in The Ravages of Now. The devised play puts the audience in the middle of a meeting for, “The Collective,” a no-technology, non-religious group who are eagerly looking to recruit… Read More ›
Comtra Theatre’s Devilishly Charming “Sweeney Todd”
By Eva Phillips Maybe Sweeney Todd isn’t being egregiously hyperbolic when he says there is a place in the world full of shit called London. The plague looms heavy; perfidious law-makers and judges prey upon the innocent with impunity; cats… Read More ›
Prime Stage Revives Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”
I’m not sure if high schoolers read Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter these days, or if they do, these woke teens would find extramarital sex as sinful as the Puritans. It’s telling that even Liam Macik, who adapted and directed Prime… Read More ›
Excavating Grief in Duquesne Red Masquer’s “2.5 Minute Ride”
By Eva Phillips I first encountered Lisa Kron’s remarkable, one-person “show,” 2.5 Minute Ride, as a referential framework characteristically unconventional mechanisms through which queer-identifying women articulate trauma and memory in Ann Cvetkovich’s seminal collection An Archive of Feelings. Kron’s all… Read More ›
Classic Thrills and Killer Creeps in Cup-a-Jo’s “Unhing3d”
Cup-A-Jo Productions along with Pittsburgh Fringe debuted their third installment of Unhinged this past weekend at Aftershock Theatre. What they’ve coined as, “Pittsburgh’s only Halloween Theatre,” the experience blends theatre with elements of a haunted house. Each year, the company… Read More ›
“Mean Girls”
By Brian Pope It’s not hyperbole, nor am I ashamed to tell you that, since first watching the film in 2004, I have fantasized about seeing the musical adaptation of Mean Girls. Everything about the movie from Tina Fey’s script… Read More ›
Vital Explorations in CorningWorks “The World As We Know It”
By Eva Phillips So much of the history women are forced to learn, accept, and retell is conceived in terms of what is done to our bodies and what our bodies can handle. How fertile are we? How effectively do… Read More ›
A “Blithe Spirit” Haunts Little Lake Theater
Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit haunts Little Lake Theatre for the Halloween season! Charles Condomine is in the midst of writing a novel when he decides to invite the “happy medium” Madame Arcati to do a séance in order to study… Read More ›