Summer in the city just got a refreshing splash of in-your-face joy. Pittsburgh Public Theater’s first Public Works production serves up a respite from the storm and stress of heatwaves, downpours and breaking news, along with the witnessing of wedded bliss: the marriage of a musical “Twelfth Night” and civilian performers working seamlessly alongside seasoned pros.
By SHARON EBERSON Choreographer Gustavo Zajac has worked with some of Broadway’s biggest names – Chita Rivera, for one, in the Tony Award-winning 2003 revival of Nine. In 2025, at the start of a gray Pittsburgh evening in June, standing… Read More ›
Quantum Theatre, Shakespeare and Carrie Furnace will continue their triple-threat collaboration – innovative company, The Bard and a historic site – with “The Tempest,” set for the summer of 2026.
The Scottish play has awakened passions since Shakespeare’s day, inspiring countless interpretations and re-imaginings along the way. Enter Mac Beth by Erica Schmidt, “equally giggly and grisly,” according to Time Out New York, finding its way to Washington’s Landing May 30-June 15.
By SHARON EBERSON For those of you who give jukebox musicals a general thumb’s down, even you might find yourself giving a high five to & Juliet. Star-crossed though they may seem, it turns out that the Renaissance and the… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON For more than a year, two Pittsburgh actors have been assessing William Shakespeare’s Macbeth anew, with the purpose of coaxing from the text something fresh and meaningful to them and a 21st-century audience. Brett Sullivan and Alyssa… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 50th anniversary season in 2024-25 will include a six-show lineup packed with Pittsburgh premieres, a slate of offstage programming, and a big, full-circle finish. Ending a season that includes a staging of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit will… Read More ›
The 20th season of Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks – which coincides with The Bard’s 460th birthday – gets under way with the 11th annual Week of Will and includes an indoor reading of the new one-act play This Could… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON To be Hamlet is to be a student prince bound to seek revenge for his father’s death, and to be indecisive in the task. Anything else is as you like it. More to the point, to borrow a… Read More ›
The setting at the Carrie Furnaces site has moved outdoors during preproduction By SHARON EBERSON For all those who believe in destiny, it was preordained that Treasure Treasure was meant to be Quantum Theatre’s Hamlet.“On a whim,” she had randomly… Read More ›
