The Atomic Bomb overshadowed the stories of many of the scientists who created it not to mention their long-suffering families who relocated Los Alamos, New Mexico during the work. Liza Birkenmeier’s The Way Out West provides some glimpses of life… Read More ›
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The Pittsburgh Playhouse Holds Media Tour
Reporters from Pittsburgh’s media outlets converged on the new Pittsburgh Playhouse yesterday morning for a tour by the University’s President and the Conservatory of Performing Arts (COPA) Artistic and Producing Directors. (Pittsburgh in the Round had a tour in early… Read More ›
Collegiate Preview: 3rd Edition
Hey gang, welcome back for our third annual Collegiate preview! School is starting once again and we’re ready to dive into this year’s seasons! Pittsburgh’s universities have plenty for you to choose from this year with new buildings, new faces,… Read More ›
Plays on Plays with the Duquesne Red Masquers
With the school season beginning again, Duquesne’s Red Masquers have an exciting line up of absurdist and metatheatrical shows that promise to titillate the minds of their audiences. This season, the Masquers explore plays relying on the Shakespearean motif of,… Read More ›
Fantasy and Romance Abound in UP Stages Fall 2018 Season
Putting together any season of theater can be a taunting task for any producer. Throw in the educational needs of a large student body and respectful consideration of that student body’s interests, and the task of putting together a balanced… Read More ›
The New Pittsburgh Playhouse
Artist rendering of the public entrance of the new Playhouse as seen from Forbes and Smithfield Street. “Willkommen! And Bienvenue! Welcome!” Pittsburgh’s newest theatre complex, The Pittsburgh Playhouse, will open to the public this fall with a production of the… Read More ›
Transcending Conventions, Transforming Theatrical Expectations: Carnegie Mellon 2018-2019 Season
Multiplicity. Energy. Purposeful provocation. Diversity and individuality which uplifts harmony. The vibrancy of technology that allows both transcendence and timelessness. An outstanding theatrical experience. These are the characteristics and tenets central to the upcoming season of Carnegie Mellon University’s drama… Read More ›
Equus
I really wasn’t familiar with the plot of Equus before going to see it last Thursday at Duquesne University’s Genesius Theatre. I knew it had something to do with horses that would somehow call for Daniel Radcliffe to be naked… Read More ›
A Bright Room Called Day
A Bright Room Called Day, CMU’s final mainstage production of the season, traces Germany’s rapid and tumultuous transition from democracy to fascism and focuses on Hitler and the Nazi party in the period of 1932-33. It is seen through the… Read More ›
Recoil
In his 1990 musical Assassins, Stephen Sondheim wrote “It takes a lot of men to make a gun”. In their 2018 production of Recoil, University of Pittsburgh Stages proved that it takes a diverse collection of young actors, a skilled… Read More ›