The Nutcracker at the Benedum, It’s a Wacky Wonderful Life at the O’Reilly, Front Porch’s Cabaret streams, Sondheim’s Into the Woods in Trafford, Chris Lattia at the Greer Cabaret The Nutcracker Opens Next Week Pittsburgh’s favorite holiday tradition returns to… Read More ›
If you are a Pittsburgh theater-goer, there are performers you’ve seen on stage so often, you feel like you know them. Now, Pittsburgh CLO is helping us to know five of them a little better. By Sharon Eberson The Kara… Read More ›
By Casey Cunningham Warning: The following review contains spoilers for the play Medea but, not, Not Medea. (That is likely the last bad joke I will make.) This is not a show about Medea, descendant of the sun god Helios…. Read More ›
By Eva Phillips Poetry and myth are predicated on violence enacted upon women. Brutal possession, hostile silencing or neglect, hateful shame, and outright destruction of femininity drive so many of our stories, that this violence is a sort of vernacular… Read More ›
Clever and cathartic, Fun Home at Front Porch Theatricals stirs the heart and memories of growing up despite the foibles of the grown-ups around us. Full of longing and never short on irony, Fun Home delivers the laughter, regret, and… Read More ›
By Ringa Sunn The Pittsburgh CLO has a unique program called SPARK. The basic idea behind the program is to give writers a supportive environment to create small-cast musicals. The Double-Threat Trio was a product of the SPARK Festival, and… Read More ›
For the first of two shows in their season entitled “Real People, Real Stories”, Front Porch presents an autobiographical musical. Composer William Finn began work on A New Brain after recovering from some trouble in his brain. Finn enlisted his Falsettos collaborator James Lapine… Read More ›
The burning question at the heart of Xanadu is simple. What is Xanadu? Merriam-Webster defines it as “an idyllic, exotic, or luxurious placeâ€. According to Wikipedia, Xanadu is both a 1980 flop cult classic film featuring Olivia Newton-John and hit… Read More ›