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.
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There was a National Tour of CABARET, and there was a theatre called the Benedum Center in a city called Pittsburgh.
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.
Scientists, Nazis, silent movies, dreams and pastries all collide in an ambitious but dense new one-act.
Two decades after its premiere, Sondheim's most controversial musical shouldn't feel as prescient as it does.
Fun will be had, sticks will be slapped, pizza will be eaten.
Carole King's biomusical leans heavy on the bio, but in this case that's a good thing.
Boy bands and Christian rock may not be as timely as they were when this gently edgy spoof premiered, but somehow that makes everything funnier.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Watch out, musical fans.
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.
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.
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