onStage Pittsburgh Call Board for January 15, 2026: With news about Romero & Juliet at the Greer Cabaret, Liberty Magic, Madison Arts and Entertainment Center, PMT’s ‘Annie,’ Alumni Theatre Company, Ken Bolden, Michael Campayno and Cole Vecchio
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onStage Pittsburgh Call Board for January 15, 2026
onStage Pittsburgh Call Board for January 15, 2026: With news about Romero & Juliet at the Greer Cabaret, Liberty Magic, Madison Arts and Entertainment Center, PMT’s ‘Annie,’ Alumni Theatre Company, Ken Bolden, Michael Campayno and Cole Vecchio
Review: Becoming Invested in Chilling, Compelling ‘Enron’
So much of the play “Enron” is true to life, that to call it a dark comedy, you must emphasize dark, or as a cautionary tale, a better emphasis would be: beware. Quantum Theatre is retelling the tale right on time for the demon season, with a compelling, kinetic staging of the Lucy Prebble play that looks back on the downfall of a corporate giant. The Texas-based energy company was known to all who lived through the turn of the 20th century for its national “Ask Why” campaign, which portrayed Enron as a pioneering, innovative energy and business company. It was all smoke and mirrors, laid bare in the compelling production, a collaboration with Attack Theatre.
Review: ‘Witch’ Casts Spell Over Carnegie Stage
By SHARON EBERSON The spellbinding production of Witch now at Carnegie Stage has inspired the punster in me, and in that spirit, the word that comes to mind most is “soul-searching.” In practical terms, when the devil is bewitched, all… Read More ›
Theater Team Reunites for ‘Witch’ Event at Carnegie Stage
By SHARON EBERSON When Witch arrives at Carnegie Stage on March 7, it will mark seven years since the team behind the drama Orphans have presented a follow-up theatrical event. Just as before, actor Max Pavel brought a play to… Read More ›
Review: Pittsburgh Public’s ‘Dial M for Murder’ Slays With Stylish Flare
By SHARON EBERSON Fresh but still glowing with period flare, and dare I say fun when the subject is murder, Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 50th season is off to a fine-tuned, stylish start. The Jeffrey Hatcher adaptation of Dial M for… Read More ›
Review: Dynamic Dixon Empowers Love-Hate Relationship with the Constitution
City Theatre production introduces What the Constitution Means to Me to Pittsburgh By Sharon Eberson Humorous and harrowing are descriptions that don’t usually go hand in hand, but that’s the thing about What the Constitution Means to Me. It defies …… Read More ›
Review: ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ by Lorraine Hansberry at the Pittsburgh Public Theater
By Bob Hoover Lorraine Hansberry’s legendary play about segregation in Chicago reached Broadway in 1959. Sixty-three years later, a Bloomberg News report concludes: “About 400,000 Black Chicagoans have left the city since 1980, including many middle-class families driven away by… Read More ›
Review: PICT’s ‘Endgame’
By Bob Hoover In these times of war, plague, drought, wildfires, and domestic conflict, can we handle the despair of Samuel Beckett? Then again, “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.” Considering all that’s happening, Alan Stanford‘s choice of Beckett’s Endgame, which… Read More ›
Directorial Excellence and All-Star Cast Lead the Charge in “A Few Good Men”
By Eva Phillips There’s a ferocious coding that comes with being a marine. It transcends the coding that comes with any military regimentation. A marine will be the first to tell you that. Semper Fi is the tipping point—Marines immerse… Read More ›
