By MINGSI MA Pittsburgh’s BDE Productions brings the musical Rent to the Greer Cabaret Theater downtown. Inspired by Puccini’s classic opera La Bohème, Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical has long since moved from the margins of American theater into the canon. Among the most influential musicals in history, Rent is no doubt… Read More ›
Two-time Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris will be home for the holidays for the second straight year, when he returns as Ebenezer Scrooge in Pittsburgh CLO’s 32nd annual production of A Musical Christmas Carol, December 15-23 at the Byham Theater. Joining… Read More ›
By Eva Phillips Selling audiences on a musical that delves into the excruciating morass a woman traverses as she faces grief, mental illness, a stymied marriage, and a romance, of sort, with a pharmacologist seems like a pretty daunting, if… Read More ›
By Eva Phillips Let’s not beat around the bush here (yes, that’s a hair pun right off the bat, but I think it’s the apropos mood for the show)—HAIR is fundamentally chaotic. Which is not a criticism, per se. Barreling… Read More ›
By Eva Phillips The 70s and 80s were a macabre-surrealist paradise when it came to horror films. Even the Sparknote versions of these films are preposterously devious: A town ravaged by an un-dead, fedora-clad pedophile stalking and murdering teens in… Read More ›
