BWW Review: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Rings Out at PMT
After a two-decade wait, Disney's cult animated musical finally comes to the stage, in an all too timely production.
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BWW Review: Hedwig Rocks to the Strum of Her Guitar in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Before Hedwig was the semi-known rock star she is today, she was a resident of East Berlin during the Cold War who found solace in American rock music.
BWW Review: THE LION IN WINTER at PICT Classic Theatre Provides Entertaining Night Led By Veteran Performer
Few things are as riveting as watching an actor or actress that demands an audience's attention 100% of the time while they are onstage/onscreen.
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS STORY Pays Homage to Movie
Juxtaposing 1940 and 2016 America, you can easily pick out the undeniable differences that layer society, from technology to familial roles and everything in between.
BWW Review: Questionable High from HAIR
It's a complicated time in a confusing culture for members of the New York City Hair tribe; the Vietnam War has brought a counterculture revolution that vexes many of these youthful Americans.
BWW Review: HAND TO GOD at City Theatre is Wickedly Funny and Surprisingly Human
Showcasing demonic puppets, sex with students, and religous overtones works wonderfully in City Theatre's HAND TO GOD
BWW Review: KINKY BOOTS Struts Sex, Heels, and Acceptance to Pittsburgh
What is the most beautiful thing in the world? Nature? Love? Food? What if I told you that for some, the answer was shoes? That is the exact mantra the Price family has passed down though the generations and unto the most recent heir, Charlie.
BWW Review: WIG OUT! at the REP Showcases as Much Humor as it Does Heart in Stunning Depiction of Drag Queen Community
The REP at the Pittsburgh Playhouse began its 2016-2017 season with a bang, producing a bold and unapologetically poignant piece of theatre featuring an incredibly diverse cast with an important social message.
BWW Review: THE ODD COUPLE Hits Close to Home at St Vincent
From this famous play sprung the modern sitcom fully-formed, but it's a little darker than you might remember.
BWW Review: COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA True and Authentic
A 1950's house, complete with a rotary phone and tube radio, a milkman and rude jock, a sexist husband and loving wife, is the setting for Come Back, Little Sheba, the superb first play written by William Inge and produced by The Summer Company.
BWW Review: DAMN YANKEES a Hit Out of The Park
Baseball players doing pirouettes is not a typical pregame warm-up many major leaguers have, but that certainly doesn't stop the cast of Pittsburgh CLO's Damn Yankees from dancing their shoes off from left field to right, or rather, stage left to right.
BWW Review: CLO's CHICAGO Good, Grand
Divas and divos laced in black are strutting across a Pittsburgh stage and bringing the scandalous stories of Chicago's Cook County jail to life.
BWW Review: SPRING AWAKENING Is Stark, Spooky at Split Stage
Barbara Burgess-Lefebvre's eerie production of the impressionist musical takes the show back to its roots, for better and for worse.
BWW Review: CLO Kicks Off Season with MATILDA
A British encounter of a younger kind is sweeping the stage on 7th Street in downtown Pittsburgh.
BWW Review: Back to School with TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING and STONE SOUP at Playhouse Jr.
The acclaimed university's children's theatre double feature explores the wide variety of possibilities for family entertainment.
BWW Review: Prime Stage's THE GIVER Stays True to Novel
Imagine yourself in middle school again.
BWW Review: Mon River Arts Gets 'Serious' with LEGALLY BLONDE
It's not too often that Elizabeth, Pennsylvania is fortunate enough to see real talent grace its stage.
BWW Review: Barebones' CUCKOO'S NEST Brings New Hazlett to Life, Insanity, Death
The New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Center is always an eclectic experience.
BWW Review: BARBER OF SEVILLE Amuses and Delights
Figaro! Figaro! Figaro! It's hard not to sing his name over and over again as the barber did effortlessly in Pittsburgh Opera's production.
BWW Review: Comedy Prevails in Pittsburgh CLO's FIRST DATE
A first impression can last a long time.
BWW Review: Mighty Music Carries SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER at PMT
PMT wrings good performances from an imperfect musical, but when the music sounds this good, it's hard to complain too much.
BWW Review: National Tour of CABARET Creates Melancomedy
There was a National Tour of CABARET, and there was a theatre called the Benedum Center in a city called Pittsburgh.
BWW Review: GUYS AND DOLLS Revives Old New York at Pittsburgh Public
Pittsburgh Public's staging of the classic musical tribute to New York's criminal underbelly is a laugh riot and a blast from the past.
BWW Review: SOME BRIGHTER DISTANCE Is a Space Oddity at City Theatre
Scientists, Nazis, silent movies, dreams and pastries all collide in an ambitious but dense new one-act.
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Mean Girls Benedum Center (7/07-7/12) |
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Suffs Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (7/21-7/26) |
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Golden Girls The Laughs Continue Byham Theatre (10/02-10/03) |
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Nunsense The Strand Theater (3/12-3/21) |
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An Evening Of Classic Hits With Orleans, Pure Prairie League, Firefall, ARS Coming To Erie Aug 1st Rebich Investments Amphitheater and Liberty Park (8/01-8/01) |
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The British Invasion Years The Lamp Theatre (7/26-7/26) |
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Superunknown: The Premier Tribute to Chris Cornell presents 'The 35 Tour' The Lamp Theatre (7/10-7/10) |
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Man of La Mancha The Strand Theater (9/11-9/20) |
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Dragon and Faerie Con™: Gathering of the Realms DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Hotel Lancaster (8/16-8/16) |
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MTV Unplugged Tribute Band at Sherman Showcase On July 11, 2026 Sherman Showcase (7/11-7/11) |