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The CLO Cabaret's holiday special is delightfully raunchy, thanks to a go-for-broke performance by Lara Hayhurst.

Pittsburgh's boutique professional musical theatre company loves taking chances, and this cabaret is full of them.

A great cast and extremely solid band steps up to the challenge of Sondheim's prickliest show.

Broadway's most complicated leading man is a fascinating match for one of the most iconic film musical roles of all time.

Read the review of the explosive onstage performance of TICK, TICK...BOOM at Pittsburgh CLO. Find out why this show might be even better than Jonathan Larson's famous musical RENT. Running at Pittsburgh CLO.

Don't miss the Public's new one-man show, October 19 to November 19.

Brian Quijada's new musical balances heavy subject matter, light comedy and magic-realist whimsy with a rhythmic score.

Director Justin Fortunato and cast keep the midcentury sheen nice and glossy on this Shaiman/Wittman musical.

The splash zone at the PMT West End Canopy is not messing around. Devotees of Evil Dead the Musical came in all-white clothes or purchased white ponchos and t-shirts at the concession stand.

The new biomusical elevates one of popular music's cult figures to the forefront with wondrous results. There's a popular witticism that the musical biopic was almost killed by Walk Hard, which skewered each and every convention of the genre so thoroughly that everything since has just seemed like a rehash of Walk Hard.

It's not every day you get to see the development of a new musical in real time, let alone one with major Broadway talent attached. I've been lucky enough to see the development of The Crinolynns, a new musical by composer Aaron Gandy and librettist/lyricist Scott Logdson, through the first stages of its development.

Pittsburgh CLO took a huge risk with this one, but the rewards are almost immeasurable. Based roughly on the first half of Tolstoy's most famous novel, Great Comet (as it is most commonly called) tells the story of a group of mid-tier Russian aristocrats passing their time in Moscow during the Napoleonic Wars.

Sondheim's backwards tragicomedy may be notoriously prickly, but Daina Michelle Griffith's production shines by emphasizing the humor over the nihilism.

The time period may be ambiguous in the classic Damon Runyon musical, but the laughs are undeniable.

The CLO production proves once and for all that this is the best musical you've never heard of.

After two pandemic years, life has returned, sometimes better than ever, at Pittsburgh's theme park staple.

The summer institution shakes up its image with a lightly sophisticated musical revue.

A heightened comic sensibility makes this old classic feel fresh to even the most cynical viewer (namely, me).

Summer isn't summer until there's a classic farce onstage at Saint Vincent.

Forty years of productions and a Disney movie have made the show cuddly, but this CLO production restores the weirdness and wackiness at the show's edges.