Just like real estate signs and orange highway cones, Musical Theatre in the Pittsburgh area comes into full bloom in the summer months. While there are dozens of musicals scheduled, for this piece we are focusing on five from smaller… Read More ›
Apple Hill Playhouse
Social Security
The Apple Hill Playhouse opens their 36th season with Andrew Bergman’s play, Social Security. With a name like Social Security, one fears the theatre itself may be edging into its dotage with what sounds like it could be a geriatric… Read More ›
Side Show
Huge ensemble casts were a hallmark of 1930s theatre, which was largely driven by government funding of the Federal Theatre Project as part of the Works Progress Administration. A cast of 30 clearly generated more employment opportunity than a cast… Read More ›
Boeing, Boeing
A funning thing happened when I got home from the airport! Set in a Paris flat, this Mad Man era play was written by French playwright Marc Carmoletti. The lying lothario Bernard (Justin Mohr) has managed to acquire three fiancés… Read More ›
Rumors
Neil Simon’s Rumors rumbles with all the kinetic energy of a whodunit but happily ignores the bullet points from the genre’s rulebook. This isn’t a play where the shock and awe come from the dramatic reveal of a criminal’s identity,… Read More ›
Seussical: The Musical!
Apple Hill Playhouse has a hit on its hands with the Orchard Performing Arts Company’s production of Seussical. Not to let the cat out of the bag, Or in this case out of the hat, Before we get through the… Read More ›
Split Stage Wraps a Successful Third Season, Announces an Ambitious Fourth
Split Stage Productions, co-owned by Westmoreland County’s Rob Jessup and Nate Newell just wrapped up a successful third season of three shows; Spring Awakening, Carrie and Cabaret. Rob and Nate saw untapped potential for an innovative addition to the community… Read More ›
Carrie: The Musical
There is something inherently disconcerting about going to see a theatrical restaging of the 1976 film Carrie, and finding out the theatre it’s presented in is a rustic barn. Seemingly bucolic, the seclusion, the intimacy, and the—not to spoil the… Read More ›
Pittsburgh’s Must-See Halloween Shows
Fall has descended upon Pittsburgh with a comical quickness, and so the time has come embrace mystery, horror and the supernatural realms. This Halloween season, Pittsburgh’s theaters are bringing to the stage both new experiences, classic favorites, and the merging… Read More ›