Carnegie-based community theater Stage 62 is returning to the Greer Cabaret for the second straight summer, opening the musical Company this week. The initial move from their home at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Musical Hall happened both by necessity and by kismet, said Haley Hiller, Stage 62’s president, who credits the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for putting out the welcome mat.
Aaron Galligan-Stierle beamed through the Zoom screen when asked if he was familiar with the score to Sunday in the Park with George. He will play the show’s two artists named George – one, a fictional version of renowned pointillist George Seurat, circa 1884; the other, that George’s grandson, in 1984 – when Front Porch Theatricals’ production opens at the New Hazlett Theater, on Friday, August 15. Saige Smith play’s George’s muse, Dot, and her daughter, Marie, in the Stephen Sondheim musical about love and legacy, passion and sacrifice, art and commerce.
By YVONNE HUDSON A fresh and sassy new production of Stephen Sondheim’s iconic Company fascinated critics and audiences in New York after its development on London’s West End. Bobbie isn’t Robert, and some of the lead characters’ friends are now of different genders. Now,… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Before we get to the gender-swapped, contemporized Company that will arrive in Pittsburgh Tuesday, Kathryn Allison is required to talk about being in a room with Stephen Sondheim. “To see him in person was wild,” says the… Read More ›
By BOB HOOVER The murderers in Assassins seem pretty commonplace in these days of constant reports of violence as they point their guns at the audience. But these killers and would-be assassins share the same desire – self-importance. In John Weidman’s clunky script, these… Read More ›
This rarely performed musical closes the company’s 2022-23 sellout season. Riverfront Theater Company, which has been operating in Pittsburgh for over 55 years, is producing Sondheim’s Assassins, rarely seen in community theater circles. The show profiles all people who have attempted… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Merrily We Roll Along is a musical notorious for its lack of merriment. But there is plenty of reason to make merry at the New Hazlett Theater, where the talent onstage and that gorgeous Sondheim score reign,… Read More ›
Front Porch Theatricals’ Production of the Sondheim Show Marks Leading Lady Griffith’s Musical Theater Directing Debut By SHARON EBERSON The musical Merrily We Roll Along is having a moment no one could have foreseen when it first arrived on Broadway… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON “Be careful what you wish for” is one hard lesson among many in Into the Woods. Happily-ever-afters are elusive is another. However, happily for anyone who has wished that Pittsburgh CLO would retake that journey into the… Read More ›
Pittsburgh CLO’s production of the Sondheim-Lapine musical is packed with stage and screen stars and local lore UPDATE: On Sunday, June 25, a decision was made to give “Twan Baker” a rest for this CLO production, and another prop baby… Read More ›
