By GUILHERME YAZBEK The Riverfront Theater Company is currently presenting the production that closes its Sapphire Season, celebrating the group’s impressive 65 years. Next to Normal premiered Off-Broadway in 2008 and, due to its success, entered the pantheon of American theater with a… Read More ›
By JESSICA NEU When our kids are young, parents often make a silent decree to their child and themselves that they will remember what it felt like to be a child and not to repeat their own parents’ mistakes. Fast… Read More ›
By JESSICA NEU Edward Albee’s 2002 play, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? is an edgy, heavily-debated tragicomedy that pushes theatrical plot boundaries. Director Caitlin Dobronz and Assistant Director Reed Callan, bring this controversial, but highly lauded play to open Riverfront Theater Company‘s 65th season. 50-year-old Martin (Stefan Lingenfelter) is… Read More ›
Riverfront Theater Company has become known for producing shows that embrace the intimate quality of their venue. For their upcoming production of Constellations by British playwright Nick Payne, they are using the unique space to take that meaning to new heights – literally. The… Read More ›
By Jessica Neu No matter our age, occupation, personal relationships, or where we currently live, I feel like we have all, at one point or another, thought about the “what if.” What if we had gone somewhere on a different… Read More ›
This rarely performed musical closes the company’s 2022-23 sellout season. Riverfront Theater Company, which has been operating in Pittsburgh for over 55 years, is producing Sondheim’s Assassins, rarely seen in community theater circles. The show profiles all people who have attempted… Read More ›
By JESSICA NEU Riverfront Theater Company has opened its 2023 season with Sam Shepard’s American classic about the combustible reunion of two estranged brothers, the dark comedy True West. Playing March 16-18, 23-25, the four-person play tells the story of… Read More ›
Riverfront Theater Company is set to bring down the house (literally) with The Play That Goes Wrong at Allegheny RiverTrail Park (285 River Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15215) on November 10–12 and 17–19, 2022. In this rollicking show, brimming with purposefully… Read More ›
Reviewed by Jessica Neu Dust off your roller skates, leg warmers, and ribbon dancers and glide over to the Allegheny RiverTrail Park for Riverfront Theater Company’s production of the cult classic Xanadu. Running through August 6th, the cast of young performers… Read More ›
Reviewed By Bob Hoover The spirit of that hopeful Hollywood cliché, “Let’s use the barn and put on a show!” runs through the energetic production of Company by the Riverfront Theater Company, whose cast pours plenty of perspiration and exertion… Read More ›
