By Sharon Eberson Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s, which completed a Broadway run in January of this year, will lead off City Theatre’s just-announced 2022-23 season branded as “Tastes Like Home”. City announced the five plays of its 48th season Friday, as… Read More ›
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Notables for the Pittsburgh Theater Scene
Phillip Winter takes the Art J.Rooney role at the Public’s all new production of The Chief Eric Bergen opens the Trust’s Cabaret Season City Theatre gets a makeover By Sharon Eberson A Change for The Chief Lord of the Rings actor John… Read More ›
Discover What Lies “Downstairs….” At City Theatre
City Theatre’s latest production begins with the flushing of a “Pittsburgh toilet.” This inside joke puts us in an unfinished basement to find a disheveled bare-chested Martin Giles stumbling barefoot into another day. He’s Teddy, the down-and-out and probably crazy… Read More ›
“The Burdens”
By Brian Pope In The Burdens, Jane and Mordy Berman’s bond as siblings is only as strong as their network connection. She’s a working mother on one coast. He’s a starving artist on another. This makes it difficult for them… Read More ›
Brian Quijada and City Theatre Explore Race and Education in “Where Did We Sit on the Bus?”
Walking through a bookstore, there are sections we all dodge. For me, it’s romance novels. Covers of strapping hunks with bedroom eyes scream redundancy. So it is with the theatre; different genres engender varying enthusiasm levels. One-man shows are slightly… Read More ›
Nomad Motel
A despondent yet wistful boy plays a series of rhythmically haunting chords and beats on a loop pedal that he adroitly interweaves and syncopates with such meticulousness and emotional purposefulness that belies the rueful yearning that riddles him which he… Read More ›
Spring Preview 2018
A letter from the Editor, Well gang, we made it through another Pittsburgh winter. A few tires may have been sacrificed to the Goddess of Potholes but we all made it through in one piece, right? All erratic weather aside,… Read More ›
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
Some cases just stick with you. We probably all either know a grisled retired police officer who has uttered something to that effect or at least seen one do so on a network TV procedural. For former detective Chuck Desantis,… Read More ›
The Old Man and the Old Moon
PigPen Theatre Company’s The Old Man and the Old Moon radiates joy at such a rate that you can practically feel its glow before you even get the chance to take your seat. I mean that somewhat literally. The cast… Read More ›
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City
City Theatre’s dynamic production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City may not be for the faint of heart, but it is about the faint… Read More ›