By SHARON EBERSON So much Pittsburgh theater, so little time is among my top picks for the subtitle of my theater-going life. A good overall title might be: “There’s No Business Like Covering Show Business.” Combine those two, and you… Read More ›
Dan Mayhak
Review: Quantum’s ‘The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (The Chagall Musical)’
By BOB HOOVER In this unusual, smartly mounted musical production about the lives of Expressionist painter Marc Chagall and his writer wife, Bella, a knowledge of Yiddish would help a lot. Lyrics and dialog in the language bring a sense… Read More ›
Quantum’s 100th show, ‘The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk -The Chagall Musical’, Opens October 28th
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is a remarkable Klezmer* musical by Daniel Jamieson and Ian Ross and is being staged at Rodef Shalom congregation. *Klezmer is a style of folk music that draws upon the traditions of Ashkenazi Judaism and Eastern European folk traditions. The term… Read More ›
Review: Front Porch’s Moving ‘Merrily’ Revives a Musical Old Friend
By SHARON EBERSON Merrily We Roll Along is a musical notorious for its lack of merriment. But there is plenty of reason to make merry at the New Hazlett Theater, where the talent onstage and that gorgeous Sondheim score reign,… Read More ›
Review: Arthur Miller’s ‘A View From the Bridge’ from Throughline Theater Company
Reviewed by Megan Grabowski Welcome back, Thoroughline Theater Company! My first introduction to Throughline is at their new home, Carnegie Stage, for Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, Throughline’s first production in two years. Perhaps A View From the Bridge seems like an… Read More ›
Stellar Performances Abound in Split Stage’s “Next to Normal”
By Eva Phillips Selling audiences on a musical that delves into the excruciating morass a woman traverses as she faces grief, mental illness, a stymied marriage, and a romance, of sort, with a pharmacologist seems like a pretty daunting, if… Read More ›
You’ll Find Something Spectacular Going “Into the Woods” With UP Stages
By Eva Phillips Musical theatre camp (the aesthetic, not summer camp) is a certain audacious brand of camp that is not meant for everyone. Brash, flamboyant, micro-referential, and aggressively lyrical, it takes the already sepia-toned flair of camp and revs into… Read More ›
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Stephen Sondheim is often regarded as the William Shakespeare of musical theatre by the people who have spent the last 60 years admiring, dissecting, and interpreting his work. The proof for that claim lies in the continuous stream of greatest-of-all-time… Read More ›