BY JESSICA NEU About halfway into Prime Stage Theater’s production of Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story, NAACP Rep & Narrator (DeVaughn Robinson) asks the audience to raise their hand if they were alive in 1960. Roughly a third of the audience raised… Read More ›
The year is 1960. A shy, smart 6-year-old named Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American student to attend a formerly whites-only grade school in New Orleans. Escorted to class by U.S. Marshals through a hostile segregationist mob, the youngster… Read More ›
Dominique Morisseau‘s prize-winning Skeleton Crew and Intimate Apparel, an early work by Lynn Nottage, opened this past week at barebones productions and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, respectively. By BOB HOOVER It’s tough to find a better location for Skeleton Crew than across the street from the Edgar… Read More ›
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 ›
By Yvonne Hudson Clyde’s is a familiar place to anyone who’s ever stopped on the road just to get a bite or take a break, that non-descript cafe that’s a truck stop and sandwich shop. If you are lucky, the… Read More ›
By Jessica Neu Oh, what a night it was as some of Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s brightest stars took the stage to present Oh What a Season! PMT’s Broadway at the Overlook. Running through September 11, the delightful show gives audience… Read More ›
Forget Uber and Book a Ride with Jitney Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD Playwright August Wilson is a perennial tour de force in the theatre world. I remember studying his plays in graduate school theatre classes at the University of Southern California… Read More ›
By Yvonne Hudson August Wilson‘s characters are people whose stories leave a mark. Their journeys, as told in plays Wilson drew from real life, are vividly relatable, multi-layered, and resonant. When Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company presents August Wilson’s classic drama Jitney, its… Read More ›
