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BWW Review: CINDERELLA is A Lovely Night at Heinz Hall
Missed your invitation to Harry and Megan's royal wedding? Fear naught, because as part of PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh, the story of Cinderella is as enchanting and regal as any British love story....
BWW Review: CLO's PERFECT WEDDING Rings Comedy Bells
A true comedy of errors filled with couples engaged and enraged in wedding jitters, Perfect Wedding at the CLO Cabaret is the madcap comedy of the summer that will make you think twice about saying, "I do."...
BWW Review: HAMLET Amps Up the Antic Disposition at Pittsburgh Public
Is Hamlet mad or sane? Should Denmark be ruled by the melancholy Dane, or by Claudius? Ted Pappas's production bravely casts all accepted answers into uncertainty....
BWW Review: THE WHITE CHIP White-Knuckles Towards Sobriety at City Theatre
Addiction drama is passe, author/main character Sean says. But here, in Sean Daniels's three-person dramedy, the journey from addiction to recovery is a journey well worth taking....
BWW Review: JANE EYRE Steps In and Out of Darkness at PICT
Alan Stanford's masterful adaptation of an often-grim Bronte novel balances melodrama with humanity, horror with levity....
BWW Review: UP AND AWAY Sweetly Skewers Superheroes at CLO Cabaret
The five-person, three-musician comedy is a throwback, both to the Golden Age of comic books and the absurd silliness of 1990s family comedy....
BWW Review: 'You'll See' RENT At Heinz Hall this Week
To see a show, you must rent a seat. You become the temporary tenant occupying the vacant seat for a specified time. When the show is through, the lease is up. Unfortunately, Mark and Roger could never afford to see a show, let alone afford to pay last year's rent....
BWW Review: HEISENBERG Teases Profundity at Pittsbugh Public
The Pittsburgh Public production of Simon Stephens's play is a tug of war, both between its two characters and between light comedy and weighty drama....
BWW Review: WAITRESS Flips the Script at the Benedum
Even without big-name stars, 'Waitress' proves itself to be the right show at the right time....
BWW Review: WAITRESS, a Delicious Treat for the Senses
Sugar. Butter. Flour. Welcome to the kitchen where Jenna (Desi Oakle) is baking up a fresh pie. She works tirelessly every day baking new pies and serving at Joe's Diner, only to have her abusive husband Earl (Nick Bailey) take her sweet earnings at the end of every shift. This all changes when Jenn...
BWW Review: Deborah Cox is Queen of the Night in THE BODYGUARD
Explosive and suspenseful, The Bodyguard, the musical, offers a modern take on the 1992 silver screen classic starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. The stage version, touring across America but stopping in Pittsburgh this week, stars Canadian R&B artist Deborah Cox and features thrilling theat...
BWW Review: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM Raises the Dead at Pittsburgh Public
Vaudeville, burlesque and television variety shows may be dead, but Ted Pappas uses the classic Sondheim musical to exhume the bodies and bring them roaring back to life....
BWW Review: WICKED Proudly Presents Autism-Friendly Performance in Pittsburgh
There's a land that you've heard of, once in a lullaby. It's a land of witches and wizards, talking animals and munchkins, and sorcery and dreams. Wicked transports audiences to the Land of Oz where the untold story of its witches unfold on stage in the most elaborate of fashions. The show is in Pit...
BWW Review: THE ABSLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY Walks a Tightrope at City Theatre
There are some things it's hard to joke about, but the tasteful crime tragicomedy of James Lecesne's one-man show somehow holds it together....
BWW Review: Learn to See 'The Beauty Underneath' in LOVE NEVER DIES at the Benedum
Ten years after the epic conclusion of The Phantom of the Opera, we find ourselves on the shores of the Atlantic- an ocean away from the Paris Opera House where years prior Christine, Raoul, and the Phantom would meet for an explosive encounter in the lair. Christine and Raoul would flee together, l...
BWW Review: THE HUMANS Gets Weird on Multiple Levels at Pittsburgh Public
If you want to discuss mystery, and I think we need to at this point, there are two essential tropes that must be considered. First, we have Chekhov's gun- if a seemingly important thing is brought up, even casually, near the beginning, it will prove to be important by the end. (Case in point: Chekh...
BWW Review: THE COLOR PURPLE Raises Voices and Spirits at the Benedum
Celie never knew much about a good life. Her sparse moments of joy were shared with her sister Nettie. As a teenager, her father impregnated her - twice - and gave the baby away each time. Celie became a part of a package deal with a cow and was forced into an abusive marriage. Through all this, sup...
BWW Review: XANADU Does at the Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret
Take a trip back to the 80s, where Australian accents abounded in California and Greek muses littered the earth; where short shorts and cross dressing was the norm; and where Sonny Malone is inspired to create the greatest roller disco since antiquity....
BWW Review: It's Roctober at the Benedum with SCHOOL OF ROCK
Washed up and slowly approaching middle age, rocker Dewey Finn (Rob Colletti) is living on his best friend's couch, stuck in his glory days in a college band. He finds himself strapped for cash and soon devises a plan to win the Battle of the Bands, enlisting, of course, the famous School of Rock ba...
BWW Review: EQUUS Isn't Horsing Around at Pittsburgh Public
Peter Shaffer's genre-busting psychodrama gets a bracing production, featuring a revelatory change of pace by Daniel Krell....
BWW Review: Dying is Easy, Comedy Hard at City Theatre's A FUNNY THING...
Putney and McGeever both nail the sitcom rhythms of their dialogue, Putney channeling Kristin Bell's frayed-around-the-edges perkiness while McGeever strongly recalls Jesse Tyler Ferguson's squirmy tragicomedy in cult classic The Class. The rapport between the two of them is realistically uneasy, fe...
BWW Review: Front Porch Theatrical's BIG FISH Makes a Major Splash
The Allegheny River is not well known for its bountiful aquatic yielding, but travel just a little bit further north to the New Hazlett Theatre in Pittsburgh's North Side for a once-in-a-lifetime catch. Front Porch Theatrical's imagining of Big Fish synthesizes the best of Pittsburgh theatre into a ...
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Jams Out at the Benedum
Imagine a room filled with four of the greatest rising stars of the music industry today. It's hard to think of only four standout artists, but on December 4, 1956 in a small auto shop-turned-recording studio, Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records, found himself in the company of Elvis Presley, Jerry L...
BWW REVIEW: My Way Tributes Sinatra at St. Vincent
Classy, frothy, smooth and swingin', this Sinatra revue feels like a cruise ship nightclub show in the best possible way....
BWW Review: CLO's NEWSIES Out and On a Mission
In a news story, the lede is the captivating opening paragraph, the exciting exposition that locks the reader's eyes to the text and incites them to continue on. The Disney musical Newsies finds its lede in leading paperboy Jack Kelly (Joey Barreiro), an unknowing hero who rallies his fellow paperbo...
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