By Bob Hoover Don’t you love farce? Of course you do, and City Theatre is giving you one of the most raunchy, pratfall-filled comedies ever staged in Pittsburgh. With its awkward subtitle, POTUS opens City Theatre’s 50th season, starting with a word I can’t repeat and throws in a dozen… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON City Theatre has answered the question, “Where to begin?,” as it launches its 50th season this weekend, with the official opening of POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. That… Read More ›
Tamara Tunie, Tami Dixon and More Join Forces to Save a Stumbling Presidency City Theatre is getting ready to open its 50th season with an election-season farce, featuring a cast of formidable women who together keep a fictional administration afloat…. Read More ›
City Theatre has announced the first show of the 2024/2025 season, a rollicking comedy—and a smash hit when performed on Broadway—just in time for the election season. City Theatre’s 50th season will launch with POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are… Read More ›
Once more, Shammen McCune is immersed in an iconic Shakespearean role. In 2017, McCune portrayed Lady Capulet in PICT Classic Theater’s Romeo and Juliet. In 2019, she inhabited Caliban in The Tempest at Pittsburgh Public Theater and the assassin Brutus in Julius Caesar for Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks…. Read More ›
At City Theatre’s production of Jen Silverman’s The Roommate, the program cover is a sketch of a tipped over coffee cup, the spill spreading into the shape of a pot leaf. Before the show even starts, you already know this… Read More ›
The Tempest at Pittsburgh Public Theatre is a brave new production for our times. “Past is prologue.” So Shakespeare’s 1611 text benefits from all that has come before, reflecting the playwright’s craft as well as his familial concerns near the… Read More ›
