Greg Kerestan - Page 8

Director Stephen Santa brings unexpected charm and warmth to a sometimes-alienating work of art.

Get out your parachute pants and jelly bracelets- we're going back to a happier, crappier era.

It's the biggest and best show staged yet at St. Vincent's summer repertory company, and a fine cast brings music and heart to the unlikeliest of Disney musicals

It's not all that jazz as usual in the Theatre Factory's gently reimagined production.

CLO's production of the classic musical has star power and a spectacular score, but could use a little energy.

A former 'Buffy' star, a legendary superstar, a make-out on the Matterhorn- what more could you want?

Forget Christmas, summer is the most wonderful time of the year for theatre fans in the Burgh

The Goodmans are as crazy as ever, but it's no Lifetime movie this time around.

Raucous, raw and rock-inflected: you've never heard cabaret like this before.

What better show for a community theatre than a show about theatre... and community?

It's Othello's downfall but Iago's show in Pittsburgh Public's thrilling presentation of Shakespeare's tragic thriller.

That sound you like is going to come back in style, thanks to Pittsburgh's neo-noir jazz-rock ensemble.

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go to PMT for Mel Brooks's OTHER musical comedy?

Boy meets girl, boy meets two other girls, boy, other boy and French maid try to bamboozle all three girls: it's as simple as it sounds.

Nine characters. One woman. Millions involved. In Daniel Beaty's new play, the small scale belies the big.

Watch out, musical fans... this crowd-pleaser has teeth.

Any long-time theatregoer will have horror stories of audiences that got too enthusiastic at a show with well-known music, especially jukebox musicals made up of mostly pre-existing pop tunes. I've known people to hum or outright sing along, whoop, cheer and scream like they're at a concert, or even get up and dance in the aisles. At most shows, this behavior is frowned upon by other audience members, or suppressed by ushers. However, at 'Motown,' the Berry Gordy bio-musical, this engaged behavior is encouraged- hell, it's part of the show. You see, audiences at 'Motown' fill a triplicate role: first, the traditional audience at a play, watching the events unfold through the fourth wall; second, the (in-world) audience watching a Motown retrospective show; finally, the various real, historical audiences at performances by Motown artists, from Parisians getting to hear the first international performances by The Supremes, to a spontaneously integrated audience in the Deep South, at a Motown show interrupted by gunshots.

The legendary hard rock Christmas spectacular brings two shows for the price of one, plus lasers, dragons and real fake snow.

Ed Dixon's world premiere production attempts a whole new genre- the intellectual farce.

It's not the movie you loved to hate- this 'Newsies' is a whole new take on Disney's cult classic.