University of Pittsburgh Stages

“Appropriate”

By Brian Pope Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The patriarch of a white (usually Southern) family dies. This tragic inevitability sets his family (primarily his adult children) on a pilgrimage to the family estate to root through… Read More ›

Recoil

In his 1990 musical Assassins, Stephen Sondheim wrote “It takes a lot of men to make a gun”. In their 2018 production of Recoil, University of Pittsburgh Stages proved that it takes a diverse collection of young actors, a skilled… Read More ›

Winter Preview 2017

A letter from the Editor: Our dearest readers, Winter is only 24 days away and we’re already dashing through Christmas decorations and Cyber Monday sales as 2108 creeps up on us. 2017 has gone fast and we at Pittsburgh in… Read More ›

Collegiate Preview 2017

It’s THAT time of year again ladies and gentleman! Time to settle back into your daily routine of books and classes for some of you, which means, rehearsals are starting soon! If you’ve been with us for a while, you’ll… Read More ›

Intimate Apparel

There is a certain added poignancy felt when watching the marvelously, passionately staged work Intimate Apparel at the University of Pittsburgh Stages. Set in New York in 1905 and functioning as a quasi-autobiography of the playwright Lynn Nottage’s own grandmother’s… Read More ›

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