By SHARON EBERSON This year marks 20 years since the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy abuse. It also marks 40 years since actor Jay Sefton went from carefree 13-year-old to abuse survivor, and sparked his autobiographical… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON If you’ve ever wondered how it feels to be sitting beside someone, near enough to touch, and yet be miles apart, meet Sam and his family. They have gathered for six therapy sessions at the facility where… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON The family drama The Animal Kingdom, which had its United States premiere in February, comes to Braddock for its Pittsburgh debut starting June 14, via Patrick Jordan’s barebones productions. Artistic director Jordan directs a play he describes… Read More ›
Tomé Cousin directs and Etta Cox stars for barebones, in the Tony-nominated Dominique Morisseau play By SHARON EBERSON Tomé Cousin’s day launches as a professor of dance at Carnegie Mellon, then moves on to projects with City Theatre and Pittsburgh… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON The seductiveness of The Sound Inside takes hold with a sneaky persistence. Daring to forgo the fireworks of most mysteries, the cerebral drama instead engages with characters who slowly reveal bits of themselves, as pieces of an… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Take a family tragedy from Greek mythology, pepper it with Shakespeare most foul and a Tarantino revenge fantasy, tie it together with the unbreakable bond of twin sisters, and then turn up the heat. That will give… Read More ›
It’s all familial turmoil at barebones productions with their current production of Sam Shepard’s dra-medy, True West. The Pulitzer Prize winning play focuses on a sibling rivalry between two estranged brothers, and the pent-up emotions they feel for each other,… Read More ›
The Legend of Georgia McBride traces one man’s journey from lackluster Elvis impersonator to lascivious drag queen. Casey (Andrew Swackhamer) is an accidental drag queen, if there is such a term. His Elvis number gets knocked from Cleo’s in Panama… Read More ›
Legendary Pittsburgh actress Helena Ruoti is a tour de force as Paige in Hir, the genuinely modern yet dysfunctional family dramedy at the Barebones Black Box Theatre in Braddock. As you enter the theatre, there is stuff strewn about the… Read More ›
Codes of honor have multitudinous iterations with a variety of names. Omerta for the Mafia. Bushido for Samurai. Courtly love for the softer-hearted knights of the Middle Ages. Regardless of the title or the culture, the codes center around ethics… Read More ›
