39 stories by "Bob Hoover"
Hamlet fights a Noisy Schenley Plaza in Oakland By Bob Hoover One of last year’s most highly praised books was “Hamnet” by the British novelist Maggie O’Farrell. Hamnet was one of th…
The Quantum crew’s production of An Odyssey might be one of the company’s most creative ones yet. Reviewed by Bob Hoover With thanks to Stephen King, “Everything old is new again.…
By Bob Hoover Old cases never die as long as Dr. Cyril Wecht is around. The former Allegheny County coroner, now 90, has been commenting on a variety of controversial killings for years, beg…
THE CURRENT WARQuantum Theatre at Westinghouse Park, North Point BreezeWritten by Michael MitnickDirected by Tome CousinRuns through June 27, 2021 Reviewed By Bob Hoover Carefully, Quantum T…
THE CURRENT WAR by Quantum Theatre at Westinghouse Park, North Point Breeze Written by Michael Mitnick Directed by Tome Cousin Runs through June 27, 2021 Reviewed By Bob Hoover Carefully, Qu…
City Theatre’s latest production begins with the flushing of a “Pittsburgh toilet.” This inside joke puts us in an unfinished basement to find a disheveled bare-chested Martin Giles st…
City Theatre is mounting one of its best productions in some time, but it runs only through Dec. 1, so put your Thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge and get to the South Side. One Night in M…
Patrick Jordan’s barebones productions hasn’t shied away from visceral drama, but it has its hands full with Dance Nation, Clare Barron’s smart, funny and insightful play about the man…
I’m not sure if high schoolers read Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter these days, or if they do, these woke teens would find extramarital sex as sinful as the Puritans. It’s telling that …
A shaky sound system. Neighborhood kids shouting. Three quick explosions of firecrackers. Honking of car horns. Emergency sirens. A noisy low-flying helicopter. It was opening night and the …
This early (circa 1594) Shakespeare play is often presented as a broad farce with lots of slapstick, mugging, leering and physical hijinks. The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama show directed …
“The only good thing in the story is the girl,” felt Henry James about his 1880 novel, Washington Square. He disliked the book, calling it “an unhappy accident.” “The girl” is Ca…
Anton Chekhov’s advice to playwrights – “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there” – fin…
For the opening production at the Pittsburgh Playhouse’s Highmark Theatre, director Tomé Cousins has chosen to stage Coram Boy, a British product adapted from a young-adult novel about s…
