The Duquesne Red Masquers could not have asked for better timing for their production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. A show about a populist President who rides to power by claiming to represent the will of “The People,” only to… Read More ›
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Ever have that dream where you’re suddenly in the middle of a play, but it’s in someone’s living room instead of on a stage and the actors are inches away from you? And then you realize it’s not a dream;… Read More ›
Dreamgirls
If you go to Dreamgirls expecting a biopic musical about The Supremes, you’ll be surprised: The show actually is a fictionalized tale inspired not just by the legendary female trio from the ‘60s, but other Motown-era acts including The Shirelles… Read More ›
Polish Joke
Question: “How do you sink a Polish battleship? Answer: Put it in the water.” Please, don’t get offended, the David Ives’ play Polish Joke is loaded with “Polish jokes” that are not meant to offend, but to explain a feeling,… Read More ›
Forever Plaid
Escapism has no tool more effective than nostalgia. Forever Plaid, an off Broadway musical originally created by Stuart Ross, is a series of harmonized covers and polite sketches from a musical culture that’s been extinct for decades. The Plaids, a… Read More ›
1984
Prime Stage Theatre’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1949 classic, 1984, is ambitiously loyal to its original text. It attempts to extrapolate the inner story of one man inside of a paranoia machine, and does so with many attributes reminiscent of… Read More ›
Findings
This is not a review of the world premiere of Arlene Weiner’s play Findings produced by the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. This is a “re-view”. What’s the difference? In Findings, running now at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, we repeatedly witness… Read More ›
Patience
The Pittsburgh Savoyards open their 79th season with a rousing production of Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan. Patience is a virtue, but in this case she is a milkmaid and satire on the aesthetic movement of the 1870s and ’80s… Read More ›
Ragtime
This musical has so much; it is so rich. It is a cascade of characters who are fully drawn, with captivating arcs. It’s a litany of singing performances, CMU’s great bastion of talent loading all of their guns at once… Read More ›
5 Musicals You Don’t Want to Miss This Spring
Pittsburgh theatregoers have a great mix of musicals to choose from this spring. Our preview features five shows that offer a mix of style, period and contemporary relevance. Two of them are new to Pittsburgh, Daddy Long Legs from the… Read More ›