Plus: GPAC Funds the Arts and PICT 2025 COMMENTARY You go away for a week, you could come back humming, What’d I Miss? Or, when it comes to Pittsburgh theater, you can check out What’s On Stage and say, “What’s… Read More ›
Patrick Jordan
Bricolage in Braddock: Midnight Radio Returns with ‘Die Hard’ Parody
Bricolage Productions’ Midnight Radio is set to burst back on the theater scene with Die Hard N’At, billed as a “Pittsburgh-ified holiday romp” that parodies the action film and presented with the company’s trademark Foley sound effects. “Finally, we’re back,”… Read More ›
Review: barebones productions Unleashes ‘Crocodile Fever’
By BOB HOOVER The patriarchy has taken punches to the midsection in two recent productions on our regional stages. City Theatre last month presented Salina Fillinger‘s farce, POTUS Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive,… Read More ›
Barebones Catches ‘Crocodile Fever’ to End Season of Female Playwrights
UPDATE: After this story was published, Susan Davey had to leave the production and was replaced by Phoebe Lloyd (Carnegie Mellon Class of 2023). By SHARON EBERSON “It’s a typical Pittsburgh story. Somebody knows somebody,” is how Patrick Jordan was… Read More ›
Review: Intense Family Drama ‘The Animal Kingdom’ Opens in Braddock
By SHARON EBERSON If you’ve ever wondered how it feels to be sitting beside someone, near enough to touch, and yet be miles apart, meet Sam and his family. They have gathered for six therapy sessions at the facility where… Read More ›
Barebones Gets ‘The Animal Kingdom’ Ready for Its Braddock Closeup
By SHARON EBERSON The Animal Kingdom by Ruby Thomas comes to its first production outside of London and New York through the grapevine. “I reached out to a friend who was in that [off-off-Broadway] production and I was like, ‘Hey,… Read More ›
‘Skeleton Crew’ Goes to Work in Braddock
Tomé Cousin directs and Etta Cox stars for barebones, in the Tony-nominated Dominique Morisseau play By SHARON EBERSON Tomé Cousin’s day launches as a professor of dance at Carnegie Mellon, then moves on to projects with City Theatre and Pittsburgh… Read More ›
The Best of Pittsburgh Theater 2023
By SHARON EBERSON So much Pittsburgh theater, so little time is among my top picks for the subtitle of my theater-going life. A good overall title might be: “There’s No Business Like Covering Show Business.” Combine those two, and you… Read More ›
REVIEW: Full-Throttle Mamet on Display in barebones’ ‘American Buffalo’
By SHARON EBERSON Even as hell breaks loose in the Mamet masterwork American Buffalo, it is funny as hell, and full of heart. How perfect, then, that Patrick Jordan’s barebones productions ends its 20th year with this actor’s actor piece,… Read More ›
Brenden Peifer Stands Tall in Latest Role for barebones’ ‘American Buffalo’
By SHARON EBERSON At a lanky 6 feet, 4 inches, Brenden Peifer is hard to miss, whether offstage or on. And this year, it has seemed he is always on. So far in 2023, Peifer could be seen in productions… Read More ›