Prime Stage Theatre’s season of premieres continues this weekend with a commissioned work by playwright Tammy Ryan, who has adapted the National Book Award finalist “Speak” for the stage. The YA novel about consent, trauma, and healing has frequently been near the top of the ALA’s banned books list since its 1999 publication. “Some people are afraid to let teenagers, as Laurie would say, be exposed to the realities of the world,” Ryan said, quoting “Speak” novelist Laurie Halse Anderson.
In Ty Greenwood’s powerful new drama, “Paradox of Education,” a group of Black students discover that scholarships to a PWI — predominantly white institutions — come with student debt, living up to academic expectations and piles of obligations, along with shouldering racially-charged, passive-aggressive encounters and outright hostility.
Produced by Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, in a dynamic directorial debut by Maurice Redwood, the play comes out of the gate swinging, and doesn’t let up.
By L.E. McCULLOUGH When singer Lilly Abreu and filmmaker Andrés Tapia-Urzua began contemplating how to devise a transformative multimedia music-and-film event, two core elements dominated the discussion from start to finish. “We wanted to create a unique concert experience in… Read More ›
It’s cozy by the fireside, with the scent of pine trees seeming to permeate the air, as City Theatre invites us to spend the holiday season with the ever-growing canon of Lauren Gunderson Sisterhoods at Christmastime.
The commissioned adaptation of “Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women” unfolds as if it were a graphic novel come to life, with thought bubbles spoken aloud, alongside dialogue, and Anne Mundell’s set design featuring the tangible metaphor of trees carved from the novel’s pages.
Seductive multilingual, multicultural, multimedia “Another Kind of Silence,” now at City Theatre. contains standard plot points from relationship dramas, but the playwright has wrapped the will-they-or-won’t-theys in complexities rarely seen on stage, in a production that pushes the envelope of creativity, to achieve the goal of inclusivity.
It was no exaggeration when City Theatre announced that “Another Kind of Silence,” the world-premiere play that leads off its 2025-2026 season, “is one of the most ambitious shows the company has taken on.” Bilingual and bicultural, the plot unfolds simultaneously in English and American Sign Language (ASL), along with some Greek Sign Language, as two already-partnered queer women, cross paths in modern-day Greece and find themselves falling in love.
By MARIA SCIULLO Sit back, but don’t expect to relax. Quantum Theatre’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari assaults from all sides, in a dark and cautionary tale of man’s capacity for cruelty and manipulation. Based on the 1920 silent masterpiece… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO’s 2025 summer just got one-production bigger with the announcement that it will present the premiere of Madame Clicquot: A Revolutionary Musical, a lead-in to the three-show subscription season. Madame Clicquot will be produced as “a… Read More ›
The new sensory-friendly show ARTfully UPlifting, created and performed by Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts students, will have its premiere March 30 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. In a first-of-its-kind for Point Park, students will develop original performance pieces,… Read More ›
“The blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits.” – Willie Dixon By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh actor Sam Lothard will channel blues pioneer Willie Dixon in the premiere production of Blues Is the Roots, a biomusical by actor, activist… Read More ›
