Musicals and bucolic folk stories can often function to encase the bleak in baroque, to dress the macabre in diaphanous, floral cloaks, and to adorn the dire with hints of whimsy. These flourishes and framings that musicals and folk stories… Read More ›
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A Christmas Carol at Carnegie Stage
Just when you think no one can do anything new with A Christmas Carol, off the WALL Productions is here to surprise you with Mark Coffin’s one-man rendition of Charles Dickens’ 19th-century classic. Throughout 90 minutes, Coffin plays a host… Read More ›
The Stuttering Pig and The Christmas Tassel Bell
I got to see the Ray Werner Festival on an evening where two one-acts were performed. The first of which was called The Stuttering Pig, and you can imagine my disappointment when, spoiler alert, there was no pig in the… Read More ›
Winter Preview: 3rd Edition
A letter from the Editor, Well, here we are again, my dear readers. Nearly the end of the year. Nearly winter. Nearly time for new beginnings. It’s also nearly our 5th birthday! In our nearly five years we have written… Read More ›
Marya Sea Kaminski Steps Out with a Tempest for Our Times
Taking the reins at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski summons Shakespeare for her directorial debut of her innovative adaptation of The Tempest, January 24-February 24, 2019. Her production next conjures a wintry world in the O’Reilly Theater… Read More ›
Amy Ellefson is brilliant in Wit at the Iron Horse Theatre
The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Wit, by Margaret Edison, opened Friday to a nearly sold-out audience at the new and intimate Iron Horse Theatre in Ambridge. We meet Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., (Amy Ellefson) as she enters the hospital for what will… Read More ›
folkLAB: Transcending Boarders and Transforming Art
In an ideal world should be an onus on theatre and the artists who work to produce theatre to uphold a particular ethos and promulgate art that entertains as much as it informs and represents the diversity of the world… Read More ›
Dear Theater Mom: The Trials of Tech Week
For those of you new to the theatre game, tech week refers to the week prior to the opening night of a play, musical, or similar theatrical production in which all of the technical elements (lights, sound, set, costumes, makeup,… Read More ›
Ray Werner Strikes Again with Run the Rabbit Path at PICT
Among the definitions of “late bloomer,” you should find the name, Ray Werner. As he turned 80 this year, the longtime Point Breeze resident enjoyed his first “Ray Fest,” the debut of five Werner plays produced by Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre… Read More ›
Musical of the Month: Nuncrackers
Our musical pick for December is the Theatre Factory’s production Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical. Picking a holiday musical is often a challenge for community theatres. The selection needs to be something that isn’t another company’s holiday tradition, isn’t being… Read More ›