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 ›
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Passionate Delivery: Fun, Kindness, Connection Are on Mandy Patinkin’s Mind for Pittsburgh Concert
Pittsburgh CLO brings the stage and screen star to the Playhouse with ‘Being Alive Tour’ By SHARON EBERSON Bet you didn’t know that Mandy Patinkin makes his living as a mailman. He personally delivers notes by Sondheim, by Webber, by… Read More ›
Front Porch Theatricals reveals ‘Falsettos,’ ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ as 2023 musicals
By Sharon Eberson The 2023 season just announced by Front Porch Theatricals is further evidence that the company that bills itself as “Pittsburgh’s boutique musical theater company” has a keen eye for works that capture the current zeitgeist while paying… Read More ›
Mr. Smalls in Millvale Adds Live Theater and Opera to its Expanding Menu
Stephen Sondheim‘s Tony-winning one-act chamber opera, Passion, is the debut offering with three performances starting this Friday, the 26th, and Saturday, the 27th, at 8 pm, with a matinee on Sunday the 28th at 2 pm. Update Unfortunately a member… Read More ›
ICYMI: A reignited ‘Oklahoma!’ for a new century, opens January 4th at the Benedum
By Sharon Eberson Oklahoma! the OG 1943 version comes at you in a bright golden haze and ends in the happily ever after of two marriages – man and woman/cowboy and farmer – united for statehood. In between, there’s the… Read More ›
‘Oklahoma!’ is reignited for a new century
By Sharon Eberson Oklahoma! the OG 1943 version comes at you in a bright golden haze and ends in the happily ever after of two marriages – man and woman/cowboy and farmer – united for statehood. In between, there’s the… Read More ›
There will never be another Stephen Sondheim
There have been many stories about Mr. Sondheim in the last few days. I found this article by Peter Marks, the Washington Post’s theater critic from yesterday evening to be most meaningful. It’s hard for me to imagine a world… Read More ›
Hijinks Galore at Apple Hill Playhouse’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”
By Eva Phillips A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is one of those shows that vividly proves that the Greco-Romans of the B.C. era really knew how to live with drama nerd flair. This seems like… Read More ›
You’ll Find Something Spectacular Going “Into the Woods” With UP Stages
By Eva Phillips Musical theatre camp (the aesthetic, not summer camp) is a certain audacious brand of camp that is not meant for everyone. Brash, flamboyant, micro-referential, and aggressively lyrical, it takes the already sepia-toned flair of camp and revs into… Read More ›
What’s Love Got to do With “A Little Night Music??”
By Casey Cunningham A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler is a show about loves. Old loves, young Loves, wrong loves, right loves, and all the various kinds of love in between. Its plot, if you are… Read More ›