Meteorological spring may still be a few weeks away, but the spring theatre season and it ’s crop of Tony Award-winning musicals is about to burst into full bloom. Our five picks are generally upbeat, for the season of rebirth… Read More ›
Spring with PITR
PICT’s “The Heiress” Revives a Classic Tale of Self-Discovery
PICT Classic Theater’s third and final production of their 2018-2019 season will be The Heiress, written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Adapted from the novel, Washington Square by Henry James, The Heiress tells the story of a wealthy yet insecure… Read More ›
Resonance Works to Present the Pittsburgh Premiere of Dvořák’s “Rusalka”
Next weekend Resonance Works will provide the ultra-rare opportunity of hearing Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka – an enchanting opera not only new to Pittsburgh, but to be sung in its original Czech language (with English supertitles). To date, only the opera’s… Read More ›
Big Love
The Pittsburgh Playhouse’s adaptation of Big Love wrestles with relationship language the same way that the 470 BC tragedy Aeschylus’ The Suppliants did. Big Love is a very smart but daring play – it takes one of the earliest tragedies… Read More ›