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 ›
Carnegie Stage
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 ›
Taking A Bite Out of off the WALL’s “Mumburger”
Saturday March 2, I was lucky to get a ticket at Carnegie Stage for Off the WALL Productions U.S. premiere of Mumburger. I have been looking forward to the show since the fall, when I met with Off the WALL… Read More ›
A Christmas Carol at Carnegie Stage
Just when you think no one can do anything new with A Christmas Carol, off the WALL Productions is here to surprise you with Mark Coffin’s one-man rendition of Charles Dickens’ 19th-century classic. Throughout 90 minutes, Coffin plays a host… Read More ›
off the WALL’s Cutting Edge 12th Season
I am thrilled to share with PITR readers, the opportunity I had to meet Virginia Wall Gruenert, Artistic Director and co-founder of off the WALL Productions. We sat together one evening in October, discussing “alternative theater for grownups” and the… Read More ›
PNWF Program D: 2018
Pittsburgh New Works Festival opened their Program D one acts on Friday, September 14, 2018, putting together a group of plays that asked the big questions about the meaning of existence, and the not so big questions about how to… Read More ›
PNWF Program C: 2018
Why am I here? Who should I be? What am I allowed? Program C was three shows in total, with less than a 2 hour total run time, and in case you’re the type to only read the first few… Read More ›
