Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater opens a new chapter with the story of Father James Cox, champion of the Depression-era jobless By SHARON EBERSON New chapters are being written simultaneously in the Upper Hill District, each emerging from stories with deep Pittsburgh… Read More ›
Musical
For ‘Once,’ David Toole Brings Guy Home to PMT
By SHARON EBERSON Once has a special place in David Toole’s career, and his heart. For an actor-singer-musician, it combines all those things in an unconventional romantic story. “And I’m an Irish boy, so anything about Ireland I find very… Read More ›
It’s Almost Showtime for ‘Beetlejuice’ Musical in Pittsburgh
By SHARON EBERSON Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Bee … Before “it’s showtime” in Pittsburgh, before summoning the fast-talking scoundrel from the Netherworld, let’s conjure a couple of the women who will soon be in Pittsburgh to deliver Beetlejuice, the musical based on… Read More ›
Jade McLeod Helps Musical Rewrite Jo’s ‘Jagged’ Story
The nonbinary actor.plays a nonbinary character in the tour of the Alanis Morissette jukebox musical By Sharon Eberson When Jagged Little Pill was in its early days, the role Jade McLeod had been waiting for seemed to finally be headed… Read More ›
Kara Mikula, E. Clayton Cornelious back in habitual roles for CLO season finale ‘Sister Act’
By Sharon Eberson Pittsburgh CLO completes summer season 2022 with a production first, the uplifting Sister Act, and its filled with faces familiar to local theatergoers. It’s a delight to see South Hills native and Point Park University alumnus Kara… Read More ›
