Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN Is Troublingly Timely at Split Stage
Split Stage delivers a high-tech, high-tension production of a musical that shouldn't feel as relevant as it does.…
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Review: ASSASSINS Still Stuns at Rogue Artists Theatre Of Pittsburgh
In a time of increased political insecurity, Sondheim and company's parable of nihilism and the American Dream still hits home.…
Review: COME FROM AWAY Humanizes Tragedy at Front Porch Theatricals
While some have accused it of being too twee, this musical docudrama provides hope and humanity in a time when both are hard to come by.…
Review: GREASE at 2nd Floor Theatre Company
Launching a new theater company is always a leap of faith, but 2nd Floor Theatre Company lands on solid footing with its inaugural production of Grease.…
Review: SUFFS Rouses and Inspires at Benedum Center
The (maybe) final show in CLO's history, this tour stop still has a lot to say.…
Review: HONKY TONK ANGELS Sing a New-Ish Song at Saint Vincent Summer Theatre
Ever heard the joke about how you know you're old when the songs of your childhood get played in grocery stores? As a lifelong Westmoreland County resident, I've long been a fan of Saint Vincent Summer Theatre. They're a classic summer stock company in an era when such things have been mostly forgot…
Review: BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at Pittsburgh CLO
Just because the music speaks for itself in this jukebox musical, doesn't mean the stories aren't worth hearing.…
Review: FUN HOME Autopsies a Family at Theatre Factory
I've always been a comics guy, ever since I was five years old and discovered my dad's shipping crate full of seventies and eighties cult titles like Howard the Duck and Doctor Strange.…
Review: WORKING Mixes Humor and Dignity at Front Porch Theatricals
This Pittsburgh-centric update of the seventies cult musical bridges the gap between the old world and the new.…
Review: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Absolutely Rocks at City Theatre
The genderqueer indie rock cabaret staple has lost none of its bite, and found two definitive interpreters.…
Past Shows
13 total · showing 1–10
Bach at Leipzig
“Imagine the Marx Brothers and Tom Stoppard collaborating on a play.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinal) In this innovative comedy by playwright and screenwriter Itamar Moses (Outrage, Boardwalk Empire), seven rival musicians resort to a hilarious battle of wit, bribery, and blackmail...
Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie
“This Land Is Your Land.” “This Train Is Bound For Glory.” Woody Guthrie showed you can strum a revolution and do it with joy. In this toe-tapping event for all generations, four actor-musicians play fifteen instruments, perform twenty-five of Guthrie’s songs, and celebrate the...
Dear Elizabeth
A lyrical, intimate, and moving portrait of two acclaimed American poets: Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Using her trademark intelligence and whimsy, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House, Eurydice) breathes life into a relationship that defies category and delicately adapts Bishop...
Pride & Prejudice
One of the greatest will-they-or-won’t-they love stories of all time! The battle of wits and will between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy is as passionate and funny as ever in this new dance-filled adaptation of Jane Austen’s masterpiece. Two hundred years after its first...
Ghosts
Author of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen not only tackled scandals, he created them. Ghosts’ scathing commentary on 19th-century morality sparked a fury when it was first produced. In this translation by American icon Lanford Wilson (Burn This), Ibsen’s tale of mothers and sons...
Cinderella: A Musical Panto
Our holiday tradition continues! Heralded by The Philadelphia Inquirer as “the Jupiter” of our musical pantos, the multiple award- winning Cinderella returns to delight audiences ages 5 to 105. With a taste of vaudeville and a Dame-full of magic, this classic fairy tale is...
The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
Miche Braden stars as Bessie Smith, the legendary “Empress of the Blues,” who blazed the trail for a century of performers from Aretha Franklin to Adele. Mixing classics like “Need a Little Sugar In My Bowl” and “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” with stories from her...
The Rainmaker
A fast-talking charmer with promises of rain changes the lives of a farm town starved for water and a woman starved for love. Romantic. Tender. Uplifting. Philadelphia native N. Richard Nash’s breakthrough hit about the power of faith in hard times is “a down-to-earth piece of...
Noises Off
Lacy lingerie and plates of sardines appear both in the air and underfoot while a dysfunctional company of actors prepare for the opening performance of the play-within-a-play Nothing On. They flub their lines, forget their props, miss their cues, and somehow survive each...
Barcelona
Late night in Barcelona. An American woman leaves her own party with a tall, dark stranger—an older Spanish man. Is it a carefree one-night stand or an invitation to danger? A scintillating world premiere that takes a funny and seductive look at the politics of who we pretend to...
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (10/27-11/01) |
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And A Buoy New Hazlett Theater (11/30-11/30) |
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In Clay City Theatre (9/19-10/11) |
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Golden Girls The Laughs Continue Byham Theatre (10/02-10/03) VIDEOS |
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John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour Roxian Theatre Presented By Citizens (10/19-10/19) |
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Hadestown Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (10/27-11/01) |
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Little Shop of Horrors Paragon Theatre (11/12-11/21) |
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The Dinner Detective Pittsburgh True Crime Murder Mystery Show The Dinner Detective Pittsburgh (11/21-11/21) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Pittsburgh (10/31-10/31) |
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Prime Stage Theatre Cemetery Walk Prime Stage Theatre (9/26-9/26) |
