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 ›
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Confronting Life’s Agonies in Throughline’s “‘Night Mother”
By Casey Cunningham How do you save a person who doesn’t want to be saved? How do you convince a person that life is worth living when life has never once been kind? Is it nobler, (to paraphrase some play… Read More ›
Cup-a-Jo’s Unhinged2 – a preview
Buckle up, kids. You’re in for one hell of a ride as Cup-a-Jo Productions presents their second installment of Unhinged, Pittsburgh’s ONLY immersive Halloween theatre event.Unhinged2 is a delicious brew of several plays, a short film, and other frightful entertainments in… Read More ›
Orphans
The production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans that opened on May 31 at Aftershock Theatre in Lawrenceville is clearly a labor of love for its cast and crew. The production, put on without an established theater company, was born from cast… Read More ›
The Ironweed Tales
The nearly unconscionable sweltering heat that infested the neatly dilapidated top floor of an old Slovenian social hall nestled back on a side street in outer Lawrenceville was apropos for the staging of folkLAB’s most recent piece, The Ironweed Tales…. Read More ›
Summer Preview 2018
A Letter from the Editor, Here we are again, on the cusp of Summer. This will be Pittsburgh in the Round’s 5th Summer season here in the Steel City so we truly want to thank you, our precious readers, for… Read More ›
Orphans – A Passion for Process, Part II
kThis is the second half of my interview and rehearsal observation with the creative team of Orphans. We recommend reading up on Part 1 before diving into Part 2! Étude #3 For the third scene study, Pavel and Meyers prepare to improvise all of… Read More ›
Orphans – A Passion for Process, Part I
Étude #1 The actors begin in silence. They circle each other. They chase each other. They grab. They wrestle. They hide. They jump off furniture. Bounce off walls. Pull. Tug. Push. Words are never used. And then they rest, breathing… Read More ›
Winter Preview 2017
A letter from the Editor: Our dearest readers, Winter is only 24 days away and we’re already dashing through Christmas decorations and Cyber Monday sales as 2108 creeps up on us. 2017 has gone fast and we at Pittsburgh in… Read More ›
Aftershock Theatre: Bringing Relevant Works to Lawrenceville
When Andrew Minton and Larissa Jantonio came up with the idea for Aftershock Theatre, they knew they wanted to create a company that would foster change and provide a theatre outlet for younger, more diverse audiences. The fledgling company aims… Read More ›