“With each new day comes a new horizon to remind us of the beauty of the present and the promise of growth in the future.” This is the premise of Rushing Horizons the current performance by Texture Contemporary Ballet at… Read More ›
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Sleeping Beauty Dance Upon a Dream
The second installment of Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center’s 2017-2018 ballet performances was Sleeping Beauty Dance Upon A Dream. This ballet featured the Charter School’s own Dance Department. The performance is unlike its Disney counterpart and is more based on… Read More ›
little match girl passion
Storytelling by singers carried the March performances of Resonance Works | Pittsburgh as works by David Lang opened and closed a moving and fascinating program at the historic Homewood Cemetery. Themes of faith, loss, and eternal life resonated throughout two… Read More ›
Heisenberg
Simon Stephen’s play Heisenberg could be a romantic comedy. It certainly seems like it should be. Two strangers meet in a park, embark on a discovery of the other’s queer realities and seem to come into an affectionate, surprising awakening… Read More ›
42nd Street
The Pittsburgh Playhouse’s production of 42nd Street showcases the depth and strength of dancing and singing talent within Point Park University’s Conservatory Theatre Company. Based upon the 1933 Busby Berkley motion picture of the same name, 42nd Street was directed and… Read More ›
Leading Ladies
Who doesn’t love a man in drag?! Whether it’s Milton Berle, Flip Wilson’s Geraldine Jones, Tyler Perry’s Madea, or Robin Williams’s Mrs. Doubtfire – a man in support hose and a wig is funny every single time. This holds true… Read More ›
Moby-Dick
The local premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick was presented by Pittsburgh Opera at the Benedum last night, and was greeted with great and deserved enthusiasm by an audience which included the composer himself. Indeed, Heggie received one… Read More ›
In House
There is something so inherently simple about the deconstruction and even excoriation of an individual’s interior by following passages through rooms in the individuals’ personal space. How a person fills their space with their possessions; how a person uses their… Read More ›
The Little Mermaid
If you’ve seen this year’s Best Picture winner The Shape of Water, you know it tells the story of a mute woman doing everything she can to live happily ever after with an anthropomorphic fish creature. If you loved that… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks’ Week of Will Preview
We’re almost a month away from William Shakespeare’s birth and death day, April 23rd, and that means we’re coming up upon Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks’ fourth annual Week of Will. Yvonne Hudson, a board member of PSIP and the… Read More ›