By Britt Haefeli A stage set with nothing but a single light brown leather suitcase. Strong and bold, demanding questions. Where has it been? Where will it be forced to travel next? Who calls themselves its owner, and what will… Read More ›
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Off The Wall Productions Presents ‘Etty’ at Carnegie Stage
“If I should not survive, how I die will show me who I really am.” The one-woman play Etty, adapted and performed by Susan Stein and directed by Austin Pendleton, returns to Carnegie Stage as an Off the Wall presentation… Read More ›
Review: Off the Wall Productions Premiers ‘What kind of Woman’ at Carnegie Stage
By Megan Grabowski Off the Wall Productions’ What Kind of Woman, written by Erie, PA native Abbe Tanenbaum, is premiering at Carnegie Stage. A work in progress since 2016, Tanenbaum has created a poignant story bridging past and present to confront… Read More ›
A Busy Weekend, a Gripping ‘Not My Revolution’ in Carnegie
By Sharon Eberson Here’s my weekend in Pittsburgh theater, or, more to the point, so much Pittsburgh theater, so little time … Pittsburgh theater – it’s worth saying a third time – had the opportunity to strut its stuff last… Read More ›
Off the WALL Productions Presents ‘Not My Revolution,’ opening June 17, 2022, at Carnegie Stage
What common threads do female rulers in history have with the women holding political or public positions in society today? Or has it always been an illusion of power? The damaged reputations and personal losses that women in power over… Read More ›
Review: ‘The Ins and Outs of Fingers, Spoons, and an Open Marriage’ at Carnegie Stage
By Megan Grabowski After 2 years, Off The Wall Productions welcomes back a physical audience for a culturally courageous and wildly trailblazing one-person show, The Ins and Outs of Fingers, Spoons, and an Open Marriage. Written and performed by Pascale… Read More ›
Show Notes 1/7/2022
Covid concerns postpones shows at Comtra and Off the Wall | Chatham Baroque has a new home | Liberty Magic for January Comtra Theatre’s January production of Cabaret has been postponed with a new opening set for May 13th. Off… Read More ›
A Cache of Visceral Feeling in “Hoard”
By Eva Phillips Obsession and compulsion are curious things. Often, there is an ascetic sterility that’s assumed—fastidiously organizing all the marginalia of one’s existence so nothing is out of place or touches something it shouldn’t; constantly fretting about the most… Read More ›
Lessons of “The Carols” Are Timeless and Eminently Entertaining
Holiday treats are often overly sweet and holiday entertainments often swerve into stereotypes but The Carols at Carnegie Stage serves up the right potpourri of story, talent, rhymes, schemes, and timeless wisdom. Circa wartime 1944, this bright and innovative musical… Read More ›
“Queer, Jewish”: A Discussion
We limit the rich potentiality of our identities when we adhere to constructs or conceive of the self as static. Whether we render the components of our identity as parallel structures that cannot intersect, or we allow the impediments and… Read More ›