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  • I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

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    I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change boasts the second longest off-Broadway run of a musical in history, bested only by The Fantastiks, with just over 5,000 performances from 1996-2008. Its creators, Joe DiPietro (book and lyrics) and Jimmy Roberts… Read More ›

  • A Lyrical Christmas Carol

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    When presenting a show as widely known and frequently told as A Lyrical Christmas Carol, it becomes important for a production company to breathe fresh life into the show, or at least to be excellent storytellers. Pittsburgh Musical Theater did… Read More ›

  • The Nutcracker

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    The Nutcracker is an annual choreography performance put on by Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School’s dance department. Dancers from second grade up to twelfth appeared in this rendition for the weekend-long event. Based on the 1816 novel by E.T.A…. Read More ›

  • FEMME

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    Femininity is rarely allowed to exist or function outside of intentional or unintentional archetypes. Since so much of the conception of femininity coincides with the process of othering or making women into The Other, it is inevitable that femininity slides… Read More ›

  • Amahl and the Night Visitors

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    “What brings you joy?” asks Resonance Works | Pittsburgh board of directors president Rob Frankenberry. There is certainly joy in listening to live classical music. There is joy in the artistry of skilled musicians. There is joy in the unadorned… Read More ›

  • That Time of the Year

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    We are at the Lamp Theatre in Irwin for the final dress rehearsal and a preview of Split Stages production of That Time of the Year which begins its two-day run tonight. Split Stage Productions co-owners Rob Jessup and Nate… Read More ›

  • In the Company of Oscar Wilde

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    The thing we seem to forget about legendary creative radicals like Oscar Wilde is that they were, in a word, radicals. Oscar Wilde may have been a student of literary history, but his work was prescient. To Wilde, society was… Read More ›

  • The Gift of the Maji

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      The Gift of the Magi was adapted by Jon Jory from a 1905 short story by O. Henry. Logically enough given the genre of origin, the play is fairly short and condensed. The narrative traces newlyweds Della and Jim… Read More ›

  • Midnight Radio A Christmas Story

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    Bricolage Production Company created a brilliant episode in their Midnight Radio series when they opened the audiovisual masterpiece A Christmas Story on December 7th. Based on the cult classic film, that practically runs 24/7 on TNT/TBS during December, the plot… Read More ›

  • A Musical Christmas Carol

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    When I walked into the Byham Theater to see Pittsburgh CLO’s A Musical Christmas Carol for the very first time, I let out an involuntary “Wow!”. The impact of D Martyn Bookwalter’s set is nothing short of breathtaking. Antique artifacts… Read More ›

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