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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. One thing that has remained constant over those 76 years is the unbridled joy of a child when they receive the pinnacle present on Ch...
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. Still, as an audience member watching the conflicted free spirits, I felt more confused about the overall p...
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. When it comes his turn to take over the family shoe busi...
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. Centering around Lola and Doc Delaney, a married cou...
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. With bats in hand and led by a headstrong fema...
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...sometimes death. Chicago, the 1975 American musical set during the roaring 20's, is on stage at the Benedum through Sunday, June 26 and is being presente...
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. Matilda, the Broadway and West End hit musical about a superlative young girl with extraordinary knowledge and wit, opens the Pittsburgh CLO's summer season at the Benedum Center....
BWW Review: Pittsburgh CLO Invites Audiences to Journey THE 39 STEPS
A murder. A mystery. A few laughs with your wine and cheese. All of these are offered at the CLO Cabaret Theatre, where for the next few months, audiences can witness The 39 Steps on stage....
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. It's quite difficult to fully embody the memory, seeing as how most of us were considerably shorter and much more ignorant about the world; but Prime Stage's production of The Giver provides visible introspection of ourselves through the character of Jonas, t...
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. Mon River Arts' production of Legally Blonde delivers a surprisingly high-energy performance, coupled with remarkable vocals and excellent use of the Grand Theatre's space....
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. The black box theater allows for companies and productions to make the space their own, and that is exactly what Barebones Productions did with the Dale Wasserman play, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest....
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. Having produced the show twelve times in its history, Pittsburgh Opera delivered a captivating twist on the Rossini classic, The Barber of Seville....
BWW Review: Comedy Prevails in Pittsburgh CLO's FIRST DATE
A first impression can last a long time. If you go on a blind date, the better half of the evening could be spent altering the misconception of the first few seconds. A similar thing happened when I saw Pittsburgh CLO's production of FIRST DATE....
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.
In this Roundabout Theatre Company production, resembling the 2014 Broadway revival starring Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams, the stage is metaphorically and literally a frame ...
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....
BWW Review: ASSASSINS Is Tragically Topical at Split Stage
Two decades after its premiere, Sondheim's most controversial musical shouldn't feel as prescient as it does....
BWW Review: Madonna Mia! It's A SERVANT TO TWO MASTERS at the Pittsburgh Public
Fun will be had, sticks will be slapped, pizza will be eaten....
BWW Review: It's One Fine Day with BEAUTIFUL on Tour
Carole King's biomusical leans heavy on the bio, but in this case that's a good thing....
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Magical Mystery Doors presents 'Zeppelin Reimagined' The Lamp Theatre (6/19-6/19) |
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The Lion King Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (9/09-9/27) |
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Destination Soultown with the Sensational Soul Cruisers The Lamp Theatre (6/12-6/12) |
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AMBROSIA returns to The Lamp Theatre, Irwin! The Lamp Theatre (5/31-5/31) |
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The Great Gatsby – Theatrical Production at Benedum Center Pittsburgh Benedum Center Pittsburgh (5/26-5/26) |
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Weird Al Yankovic Giant Center (7/31-7/31) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Pittsburgh (6/13-6/13) |
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Eaglemania: The Worlds Greatest Eagles Tribute Band The Lamp Theatre (6/13-6/13) |
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Next to Normal The Collective PGH (5/28-6/07) |
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Mullett: 80's Hair Band Tribute The Lamp Theatre (6/20-6/20) |
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