A series of recurring columns on theater by Sharon Eberson Black Theatre United’s New Deal is a challenge for change. Theater is on its way back and ready to greet it is a New Deal for racial justice. Last summer,… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Musical Theater
Pittsburgh Musical Theater Flaunts Their Long, Beautiful “HAIR”
By Eva Phillips Let’s not beat around the bush here (yes, that’s a hair pun right off the bat, but I think it’s the apropos mood for the show)—HAIR is fundamentally chaotic. Which is not a criticism, per se. Barreling… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s “Evil Dead” is Hemorrhaging Fun
By Eva Phillips The 70s and 80s were a macabre-surrealist paradise when it came to horror films. Even the Sparknote versions of these films are preposterously devious: A town ravaged by an un-dead, fedora-clad pedophile stalking and murdering teens in… Read More ›
Extra, Extra, Read All About It… “Newsies!”
Pittsburgh Musical Theater (PMT) Byham Series debuted Disney’s Newsies, May 2, 2019. Newsies has a pretty interesting history, beginning in 1992 as a Disney musical film starring Christian Bale, Bill Pullman and Robert Duvall. It was a box office flop…. Read More ›
Keeping the Faith with “Nunsense”
Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s 2018-2019 Seize the Stage Season continues with Nunsense: The Mega Musical. It centers around the Little Sisters of Hoboken raising money to give a proper burial to their recently departed Sisters. As morbid as that might sound,… Read More ›
In The Heights
By Brian Pope Pittsburgh Winter 2019 has (so far) been very unkind to residents. It’s par for the course but distressing nonetheless. Unexpectedly though, the season and the city have been very kind to one Lin-Manuel Miranda in the last… Read More ›
Musical of the Month: In the Heights
January is a slow month in Pittsburgh for the opening dates of musicals except for the national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton at the Benedum through the end of the month. As Hamilton departs our city, Pittsburgh Musical Theatre is offering us… Read More ›
5 Musicals You Don’t Want to Miss This Winter: 2018
Welcome to our Winter Edition of the Top Five Musicals. The juggernaut known as Hamilton will be occupying the Benedum for the entire month of January, but there are still a few good choices out there to satisfy the most serious… Read More ›
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Whether you like it or not (and I think you will), Hedwig has come to Pittsburgh. She and her band The Angry Inch are here to kick off Pittsburgh Musical Theatre’s Rockin’ West End series and to answer the timeless… Read More ›
Musical of the Month: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Once upon a time, the world at large acknowledged the fact that there are more than just two genders. Or so Aristophanes tells it in Plato’s philosophical epic Symposium. In the age of Zeus, humans moved around using eight limbs,… Read More ›