PITTSBURGH THEATER REVIEWS

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....

Almost every time you see a major production of Anything Goes, it'll vary in some way from the last one you saw. There are at least three licensable editions of the show, from as far back as the 1930s and as recent as 2022. The song stack is in perpetual flux between a long list of Cole Porter great...

The summer institution's season opener effortlessly blends the two genres the venue is most famous for....

William Finn's neurotic queer musical epic isn't necessarily user-friendly, but Pittsburgh's best local playhouse still manages to find the warmth amidst the dysfunction....

Lauren Yee's time-bending new play shows the power of identity, family and a really good mixtape....

There's a reason Patinkin is a legend, and it's because he is so permanently himself and no one else....

This jukebox rocker may not be 'simply the best' in the genre, but its energy and surreal touches make it stand out from the pack....

Go see Beetlejuice. Go see Beetlejuice. Go see Beetlejuice. Okay, storytime! I have a personal connection to the Beetlejuice musical on two levels. First, when I was a senior in high school and a freshman in college, I followed Stephen Sondheim's advice on learning how to write by adapting an existi...

Justin Emeka's riotous reimagining is the best Shakespeare in Pittsburgh since 'Othello' at the Public....

Pleasantly disorienting, this pseudo-docutheatre raises questions large and small....

A stripped-down presentation and some local grit (plus actual queens) helps this show find its footing in a small production....

This super-sixties musical continues to feel fresh, while also seeming like it's been around forever....

The smartest, stupidest, most beloved Christmas tale of the twentieth century comes to life, and then some, in Michael Berresse's farcical production....

Front Porch announces a season of Finn and Sondheim, in an evening of song and stories. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to measure the pulse of the Pittsburgh theatre scene, you will feel it the most intensely and regionally in Front Porch. The company's mission to produce exciting musicals spe...

The gritty folk-opera sensation isn't the second coming of Hamilton, it's the second coming of RENT....

What did our critic think of FRANKENSTEIN at Prime Stage? I'm a lifelong horror buff, devouring the Famous Monsters of Filmland on celluloid and printed page, as well as the artsy, philosophical 'elevated horror' that has become a literary and cinematic movement in the last decade. Both the schlocky...

Disney's biggest 'princess show' ever is weirder and more fun than you remember. When Frozen fever hit a decade ago, it was inescapable. No matter how you felt about Anna, Elsa and Olaf, they were quickly overexposed. Bizarre Frozen merchandise is still on the shelves to this day- Frozen cereal, Els...