The Pittsburgh Classic Players theatre company was founded by three Shakespearean scholars who met in graduate school at Mary Baldwin University. Brett Sullivan Santry, Harper York, and Katie Crandol became friends in graduate school, and in 2013, the trio of… Read More ›
WinterwithPITR
5 Musicals You Don’t Want to Miss This Winter: 2018
Welcome to our Winter Edition of the Top Five Musicals. The juggernaut known as Hamilton will be occupying the Benedum for the entire month of January, but there are still a few good choices out there to satisfy the most serious… Read More ›
A Christmas Story: The Musical
The holiday season is officially upon us and nowhere else is it more apparent than in Canonsburg’s quaintly decorated Little Lake Theatre. Displaying tinsel hung with care against a festive green stage, the atmosphere feels like a trip to Grandma’s… Read More ›
Our Lady of Drubbleduffy at Pittsburgh Playwrights
Our Lady of Drubbleduffy is one of five new world-premiere plays by local playwright Ray Werner. This dramatic quintet makes up the Ray Werner Play Festival currently debuting at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. The play unfolds in the small, forsaken… Read More ›
The Old Curiosity Shop
PICT Classic Theatre opened their 22nd season with the theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens classic serialized novel The Old Curiosity Shop. PICT Artistic and Executive Director Alan Stanford adapted the novel for the stage at the Gate Theatre in Dublin… Read More ›
off the WALL’s Cutting Edge 12th Season
I am thrilled to share with PITR readers, the opportunity I had to meet Virginia Wall Gruenert, Artistic Director and co-founder of off the WALL Productions. We sat together one evening in October, discussing “alternative theater for grownups” and the… Read More ›
Inside Passage
Inside Passage is the touching story of the search for beginnings, lost family members and lost ways of life told in an exciting and compelling way. It is an exciting and different evening of theatre well worth the investment of… Read More ›
Quantum Makes Way for the Next World Premiere: Inside Passage
Producing new and adventurous works in unexpected spaces is for Karla Boos, artistic director of Quantum Theatre, but the tradition she has created thrives where you might least expect to experience a play. That mission is next realized with the… Read More ›
The House of Bernarda Alba
The House of Bernarda Alba was the last play Federico Garcia Lorca wrote before his untimely death in 1936. The Spanish Civil War was just breaking out. Like many artists, Garcia Lorca supported the left and spoke out against the… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 2018-2019 Season!
The Pittsburgh Public Theater announced their 2018/19 season at a member’s reception on Tuesday night. Board Chair Michael H. Ginsberg officially passed the baton from Ted Pappas, the retiring Producing Artistic Director, to the new team of Artistic Director Marya… Read More ›