A gifted soprano, quite pleased to be facing a live audience for the first time in well over a year, and an audience just as pleased to be there, made for an auspicious opening of the Pittsburgh Festival Opera… Read More ›
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Uncommon Women Lead Quantum’s Season with “Looking for Violeta”
A season of uncommon women and others take Quantum Theatre audiences from a Chilean peña, to Shakespeare’s hometown, to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The journey during Quantum’s 29th season begins with the world premiere of Looking for Violeta at the… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s “Scandals and Schicchi” a Fun Night of Song and Comedy
Pittsburgh Festival Opera is wrapping its summer season with Scandals and Schicchi, and its premiere last evening was received enthusiastically by a pleased and cheering crowd. It’s important to first note that only a single repetition will be given, Sunday… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Festival Opera Presents Richard Wagner’s “The Valkyrie”
The first performance of Wagner’s epic The Valkyrie was given last night by Pittsburgh Festival Opera in the Falk Auditorium at Winchester Thurston – an abbreviated, spliced version that stirred a great deal of animated conversation during the intermission…. Read More ›
Pittsburgh Festival Opera Opens 2019 Season With a Dazzling Performance of Strauss’ “The Love of Danae”
The Love of Danae (Die Liebe der Danae), an opera in three acts from the later years of Richard Strauss’ long and illustrious career, was presented last night as the opening performance of Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s 2019 offerings. As mentioned… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s 2019 Season is Coming Soon
Pittsburgh Festival Opera, our local “Intimate Opera Theater,” has added much to the summers’ musical offerings for some years now, and the ambitious company’s new season begins Friday, July 12, with a “concert” performance of Richard Strauss’ The Love… Read More ›
Kinetic’s Holmesian Adventure Is Superbly Satisfying
A stunning cast and handsome designs support the retelling of superbly satisfying adventure with one of the most popular detectives, Sherlock Holmes. He is quite at home on the Charity Randall Theatre stage where Kinetic Theatre’s The Speckled Band… Read More ›
Summer Preview 2019
A Letter from the Editor, Well, y’all, we’ve fought our way tooth and nail to the golden promise land of Summer. The Spring saw some phenomenal changes and growth for all of us at PGH in the Round–from new… Read More ›
Five Theatre-Things To Whip Your Jazz Hands Out For Summer 2019
Oklahoma! at Pittsburgh CLO (June 21st-June 30th at the Benedum) I have a morbid fascination with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 Musical Oklahoma! (their first ever musical collaboration, to boot) that was galvanized by a skit on Sesame Street in the… Read More ›
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine opened Thursday at the Little Lake Theatre in Canonsburg. Little Lake is currently in its 70th season and is community theatre in the best sense. There are opportunities for aspiring performers to learn theatre from the basics,… Read More ›