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PNWF Program B: 2018

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Enjoying its impressive twenty-eighth year, the hotly anticipated and highly regarded Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) is in full swing and delivering a new array of exciting, original one-act plays. PNWF, which involves a number of the outstanding theatre companies… Read More ›

Byhalia, Mississippi

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It’s a good night of theater when the play you’re watching can make you think. It’s a fun night of theater when the play you’re watching can make you laugh. It’s a cathartic night of theater when the play you’re… Read More ›

Sex Werque

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There’s a certain banality to a stripper undressing at home after a shift.  It’s still stripping, but it’s just the bane of every working soul at that point: the slow unlacing of the stilettos and the rolling up of the… Read More ›

The Carols

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Carnegie Stage has a hit in the making on its hands with the Christmas musical The Carols which had its Western Pennsylvania premiere on Thursday in Carnegie. The show was commissioned by Philadelphia’s 1812 theatre company and first premiered there… Read More ›

Belfast Girls

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Belfast Girls deserves attention for the aspiration of founder and director Rich Kenzie in this debut production at Carnegie Stage through Sunday, Oct. 29 only. Belfast Girls, developed at the National Theatre Studio, London, was shortlisted for the 2012 Susan… Read More ›

I Won’t Be in on Monday

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There is no introduction to the colloquially titled I Won’t be in on Monday. There is no perfunctory schpiel prefacing the performance concerning donors or future shows or money that is needed. That is not to say that these prefaces… Read More ›

PNWF 2017: Program D

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For 27 seasons, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival has brought new one act shows to the stage from playwrights both local and from far away. Last weekend, I got to check out three non-local writers’ new shows during Program D… Read More ›

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