onStage Pittsburgh catches up with Joseph Hall, Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s co-Executive Director, as the Fall season at the East Liberty theater gets under way tonight with “AURA,” by Freshworks artist Mal MacKenzie.
“KST has always supported new performance that is in conversation with the present moment, even when the present moment is challenging, and that’s exactly what Mal is doing.”
By SHARON EBERSON A dictator’s wife behaves like a spoiled child, oblivious to her people’s cries of anguish. What could possibly go wrong? The First Lady of the USA premiere play First Lady is named Ishtar (borrowed from the infamous… Read More ›
By GREGORY LASKI On a late September evening in a rehearsal room perched on the third floor of The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts student actors Mia Hill and Charlie Kennedy sit on stools. Their feet hold fast to a floor adorned by sneaker… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON PICT’s Bards From the Burgh 2 Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre’s second Bards from the Burgh, a fundraising reading series of four plays by Pittsburgh playwrights, packed with local actors, runs 7:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, July 8-12. The series… Read More ›
When was the last time you apologized to your mother? Or received an apology in return? Kelly Strayhorn Theater presents the newest theater piece from creator and performer Adil Mansoor, Amm(i)gone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, opening April 22 at… Read More ›
Quantum’s production of Plano, by Will Arbery is a triumphant onion of a play filled with time-tripping, unmet expectations, razor-sharp dialogue, and incredible visual performances from the cast and set alike. It is a precarious juggling act that was fascinating… Read More ›
By Sharon Eberson It would be nice if time travel was as easy as saying: “See you later. It’s later.” In Will Arbery‘s Plano, people go from now to then just that quickly. “That sucked me in at first, that… Read More ›
