By Eva Phillips There is a particularly arresting moment in folkLAB’s newest production, Nicole Gallagher’s mija: one bitch’s tale, that for the sake of the integrity of the story, and to preserve the experience for future audiences, I can’t explicitly… Read More ›
Folklab
Summer Preview 2019
A Letter from the Editor, Well, y’all, we’ve fought our way tooth and nail to the golden promise land of Summer. The Spring saw some phenomenal changes and growth for all of us at PGH in the Round–from new… Read More ›
Five Theatre-Things To Whip Your Jazz Hands Out For Summer 2019
Oklahoma! at Pittsburgh CLO (June 21st-June 30th at the Benedum) I have a morbid fascination with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 Musical Oklahoma! (their first ever musical collaboration, to boot) that was galvanized by a skit on Sesame Street in the… Read More ›
Spring Preview 2019 Countdown
It is a rare instance in my life that my severe OCD, and my hopeless yet unapologetic love of theatre get to intersect so harmoniously as they do when I get to make a list of theatre things I am… Read More ›
OTHER: multiracial folklore
To value ourselves as more than the sum of our parts is an abstraction that seems almost inconceivable. Allowing ourselves meaning that transcends the borders and limitations that, because of internal pressure from external scrutiny and objectification, we put upon… Read More ›
Winter Preview: 3rd Edition
A letter from the Editor, Well, here we are again, my dear readers. Nearly the end of the year. Nearly winter. Nearly time for new beginnings. It’s also nearly our 5th birthday! In our nearly five years we have written… Read More ›
folkLAB: Transcending Boarders and Transforming Art
In an ideal world should be an onus on theatre and the artists who work to produce theatre to uphold a particular ethos and promulgate art that entertains as much as it informs and represents the diversity of the world… Read More ›
Queer: New American Tall Tales
Imagine being at the end of the world with absolutely nothing to wear. Imagine being an intergalactic exotic dancer whose cyber-dreams crackle simultaneously with the enormity of the universe and also its devastating isolation. Imagine being faced with the horrifying… Read More ›
The Ironweed Tales
The nearly unconscionable sweltering heat that infested the neatly dilapidated top floor of an old Slovenian social hall nestled back on a side street in outer Lawrenceville was apropos for the staging of folkLAB’s most recent piece, The Ironweed Tales…. Read More ›
FEMME
Femininity is rarely allowed to exist or function outside of intentional or unintentional archetypes. Since so much of the conception of femininity coincides with the process of othering or making women into The Other, it is inevitable that femininity slides… Read More ›