By JESSICA NEU There’s magic in the air from the moment when young JoJo (Henry Thomas) steps on stage to begin Seussical. For the next 75 minutes, that magic comes alive in the form of classic characters, bright colors (J. Branson)… Read More ›
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Hear “The Sound of Music” at Pittsburgh Musical Theatre
The hills are alive with The Sound of Music at Pittsburgh Musical Theater in their current production of the classic Rogers & Hammerstein musical, directed by Colleen Doyo. Whether you were introduced to The Sound of Music by stage or… Read More ›
MOMIX Returns to the Byham Stage
On Saturday, Spetember 21, MOMIX will return to the Byham Theater at 8pm with Viva MOMIX, a compilation of works. “They’re relatively short, each piece has a beginning a middle and an end, a musical curve kind of like a… Read More ›
Theatre Gets Body-Slammed In Kaiju Big Battel
Monsters are real. Danger can happen. And theatre as we know it will never be the same. Don’t fret. This isn’t some Orson Welles-esque announcement warning of Godzilla’s doomed foray into community theatre. Then again—it’s not, not that either…. Read More ›
Pittsburgh Savors “Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical” at The Byham Theatre
Our teenage years are our most tempestuous and our most formative. We take advantage of our diminished inhibitions, delighting in perhaps reckless behavior. At the same time, we find ourselves plagued with anxiety about the constructs we’re forced into and… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Musical Theater Has It All In 2018-19 Season
Now is the time to seize the stage! That’s literal when it comes to Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s 2018-2019 season. Each of the shows they’ve chosen for “Seize The Stage” represents eclectic musical genres and types of stories. Two of the… Read More ›
The Little Mermaid
If you’ve seen this year’s Best Picture winner The Shape of Water, you know it tells the story of a mute woman doing everything she can to live happily ever after with an anthropomorphic fish creature. If you loved that… Read More ›
Beauty and the Beast
A tale that has enchanted old and young alike opened at the Byham Theater to the tones of a live orchestra tuning. A slightly blurry projection of the traditional Disney’s Beauty and the Beast logo graced the promising black curtains… Read More ›
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame brings a powerful mixture of student and professional performers to the Byham Theater, where it continues playing through February 5th. The show – based on the Victor Hugo novel and animated Disney… Read More ›
Jekyll & Hyde
People know when attending a Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s Richard E. Rauh Conservatory Company (RERC) show that the production features all youths, rather than a Broadway cast of professional actors. But if audience members didn’t know that going in to Jekyll &… Read More ›