By Eva Phillips Good fences make good neighbors, and sturdy walls can make the most combustible of romances—just don’t expect those romances to be as sturdy or reliable. Theatre Factory’s latest production, The Fantasticks (book by Tom Jones (not that… Read More ›
Archived Reviews
Archived from Pittsburgh in the Round
“Ruddigore” Raises Spirits at Pittsburgh Savoyards
It’s an operetta. It’s a ghost story. And it is a comedic romance about conditional love and legacy. Ruddigore, or the Witch’s Curse is appropriately staged by the Pittsburgh Savoyards in their 82nd season under the harvest moon in… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera’s “Don Giovanni” a Dazzling Opening Night Delight
A large crowd at the Benedum last night got an equally large bang for its buck in a highly entertaining performance of Mozart’s perennial Don Giovanni – this time dressed in Krystine McIntyre’s snappy “film noir” production that… Read More ›
Fraught Families in UP Stages’ “next to normal”
By Brian Pope They don’t call it the nuclear family for nothing. Just ask the Goodmans. Dan, Diana, Natalie, Gabe. “Father, mother, sister, brother cheek to cheek.†Or so Diana sings in “Just Another Dayâ€, the opening number of Tom… Read More ›
The Morals of Choice and Empathy in off the WALL’s Sensational “Not Medea”
By Casey Cunningham Warning: The following review contains spoilers for the play Medea but, not, Not Medea. (That is likely the last bad joke I will make.) This is not a show about Medea, descendant of the sun god Helios…. Read More ›
PNWF: Program D
By Eva Phillips The range of emotions and sentiments in the final program of Pittsburgh New Works Festival on display throughout the categorically eclectic array of three plays are profoundly mercurial and, at times, riveting. Revenge plots hatched by Lady… Read More ›
A Discussion on Zoe Sorrell’s “My Own Route,” and Glimpse of off the WALL’s Thirteenth Season
By Eva Phillips Poetry and myth are predicated on violence enacted upon women. Brutal possession, hostile silencing or neglect, hateful shame, and outright destruction of femininity drive so many of our stories, that this violence is a sort of vernacular… Read More ›
Apple Hill Playhouse has Ethereal Fun with a “Blithe Spirit”
By Eva Phillips You know what they say: it’s all fun and games until someone summons your dead spouse from the beyond. When novelist Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth (his second wife, notably) host a dinner party with their… Read More ›
Raw Emotion in Little Lake Theater’s “Bloomsday”
Imagine being able to travel back in time to revisit and relive past memories with a special someone. That’s exactly what Robert and Cait do as they turn back the time 35 years into the past to experience the… Read More ›
PNWF Program C: 2019
By Brian Pope Even with their short run times, the plays that make up Program C of the 2019 Pittsburgh New Works Festival don’t pull any dramatic punches. Whether they’re revealing closely guarded secrets, reliving past trauma, or hilariously contemplating… Read More ›