By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Annie, for me, had long occupied that part of memory where many musicals live: works I know something about, but whose details have faded. Yet as soon as the house lights dimmed and the orchestra began the… Read More ›
Allan Snyder
onStage Pittsburgh Call Board for January 22, 2026
onStage Pittsburgh Call Board for January 15, 2026: With news about Romero & Juliet at the Greer Cabaret, Liberty Magic, Madison Arts and Entertainment Center, PMT’s ‘Annie,’ Alumni Theatre Company, Ken Bolden, Michael Campayno and Cole Vecchio
onStage Pittsburgh Call Board for January 15, 2026
onStage Pittsburgh Call Board for January 15, 2026: With news about Romero & Juliet at the Greer Cabaret, Liberty Magic, Madison Arts and Entertainment Center, PMT’s ‘Annie,’ Alumni Theatre Company, Ken Bolden, Michael Campayno and Cole Vecchio
What to Expect When Expecting ‘Baby,’ the Musical
Co-stars Becki Toth and Allan Snyder Dish on Front Porch Theatricals’ First Production of 2025 By SHARON EBERSON When the musical Baby opened on Broadway in 1983, Frank Rich of The New York Times said it belonged in the rare… Read More ›
Betting on the CLO’s ‘Guys & Dolls’ is a Guaranteed Win for Audiences
By JESSICA NEU It’s the 1950s in New York City. The war is over, the lights are bright, the nights are long, and the bets are big in the classic musical Guys & Dolls. With music by Frank Loesser and book by… Read More ›
Review: Front Porch Theatricals’ ‘A Man of No Importance’
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde By MAC Hoover The Celtic cross is a Christian symbol of a traditional cross with a nimbus or ring featured. The symbolism of a circle features predominantly in the season’s… Read More ›
Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Front Porch Theatricals’ ‘A Man of No Importance’
By Sharon Eberson It is important, Front Porch Theatricals’ production of A Man of No Importance. Let me explain all the reasons why. It’s going to take a little time, so get comfortable. This previously little-done show might just be… Read More ›
Allan Snyder kicks off Kara Spotlight cabarets with a ‘Les Miz-Life Crisis’
If you are a Pittsburgh theater-goer, there are performers you’ve seen on stage so often, you feel like you know them. Now, Pittsburgh CLO is helping us to know five of them a little better. By Sharon Eberson The Kara… Read More ›
Midwinter “Midsummer” Mesmerizes at PICT
A love letter to nature and an adventure in relationships, PICT Classic Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a stunningly bright production celebrating the actors’ power through poetry and the audience’s “imaginary forces.” In WQED’s Fred Rogers Studio–a space steeped in imagination—director Alan… 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 ›