By SHARON EBERSON The headline of The New York Times review declared: “ ‘Trouble in Mind,’ 66 Years Late and Still On Time.” That was in 2021, when Alice Childress’s 1955 play made its Broadway debut, to the tune of… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Public Theater Reveals ‘Trouble in Mind’ Cast
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast of the backstage drama Trouble in Mind, the 1955 Alice Childress play that debuted on Broadway in 2021, and was nominated for four Tony Awards. The Pittsburgh premiere, directed by Justin Emeka (Sweat… Read More ›
2023 Momentum Festival Mixes Past and Future
City Theatre’s New Play Fest includes Screening of ‘Feeding the Dragon’ doc; Tami Dixon Revisiting ‘South Side Stories’; Martin Giles’ Solo Show and More City Theatre’s 2023 Momentum Festival of New Plays will run May 18-21, coinciding with the final… Read More ›
Review: Pittsburgh Public’s “Murder on the Orient Express” is a Pageantry of Solid Acting, Period Costumes, and an Amazing Set Design
Reviewed by Bob Hoover Playwright David Mamet recently wrote that “theater on Broadway has largely been replaced by pageantry.” Audiences “come to Broadway exactly as they come to Disneyland. They do not come to risk their hard-earned cash on a… Read More ›
Martin Giles boards Public’s ‘Orient Express’ as Poirot
By Sharon Eberson Post updated with newly released production photos by Michael Henninger Martin Giles popped up on my Zoom screen to reveal an epic mustache a few weeks ago. Back then, the hair on his upper lip seemed headed… Read More ›
Midwinter “Midsummer” Mesmerizes at PICT
A love letter to nature and an adventure in relationships, PICT Classic Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a stunningly bright production celebrating the actors’ power through poetry and the audience’s “imaginary forces.” In WQED’s Fred Rogers Studio–a space steeped in imagination—director Alan… 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 ›
Enjoy Being Haunted by PICT’s “The Woman in Black”
Sleep much? You might sleep for at least one night with your eyes open after The Woman in Black at PICT Classic Theatre. A joyful terror, this legendary dramatized ghost story runs through November 23 in the intimate Fred Rogers… Read More ›
Kinetic’s Holmesian Adventure Is Superbly Satisfying
A stunning cast and handsome designs support the retelling of superbly satisfying adventure with one of the most popular detectives, Sherlock Holmes. He is quite at home on the Charity Randall Theatre stage where Kinetic Theatre’s The Speckled Band… Read More ›
“An Octoroon”
By Brian Pope Conventional wisdom dictates that you should never meet your idols. You run the risk of said idols failing to meet the stratospheric expectations you set for their personalities and abilities. For me, that would mean meeting TV… Read More ›