Setting controls a play. It’s its backbone. This is particularly true when the setting contains an entire plot within a singular space. Also, particularly true when the audience feels forced into it, packed into the confined atmosphere that’s suddenly been… Read More ›
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College campuses in America are a hotbed of cultural discourse. As they should be. However, unlike the last hundred years of existing as a space for entire generations to generate a stance on progressivism, collective academic discourse has become confusing…. Read More ›
Jed Allen Harris is at Home with Quantum for Collaborators
These days, Jed Allen Harris says it takes a certain kind of script to draw him from the flexible confines of academic theater. He helped lay the foundation of today’s dynamic Pittsburgh’s theater community through his bold and risky work… Read More ›
Oedipus Rex
Alan Stanford’s new adaption of the classic Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex is a modern day masterpiece. Sometimes you just know within the first few minutes that this is really going to be good. That first inclination comes not from the… Read More ›
Turandot
Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, was presented for the first time this season Saturday night at the Benedum, and a gratifyingly large crowd packed the auditorium to enjoy a truly resounding rendition of the composer’s swan song. The work is… Read More ›
Gemini Children’s Theater – Making Magic for Young Audiences
Jill Jeffrey was a like many young actors, making the rounds at auditions and giving little thought to children’s theater–until she stepped on stage in Journey Back to Oz at Gemini Theater Company in 2004. “I had a strong background… Read More ›
The Guard
The building my uncle is renovating is a wide open space barren of furniture, the chipped paint dotted with hungry-looking light sockets. I am with him while he works, because my parents need someone to watch their 6 year-old. I… Read More ›
Bricolage Production Company’s 12th Annual BUS!
Bricolage’s BUS is an amazing compilation of talent. They do a great job of mixing together spontaneity and creative ability. It’s a challenge. Playwrights are asked to put themselves on a 90-minute bus ride and to submit to the experience… Read More ›
Sweet Charity
The girl who couldn’t hold on to a guy is the victorious heroine of Sweet Charity, on stage of the equally spunky and iconic Rockwell Theater at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in Oakland. The colorful and groovy Broadway and film hit… Read More ›
Daddy Long Legs
The Pittsburgh Public Theater’s production of Daddy Long Legs under the direction of Ted Pappas, once again demonstrates theatre at its best. This subtle and nuanced production is the perfect balance of all the elements of theatre that combine to… Read More ›