128 stories by "Christopher Rawson"
The Pittsburgh playwright’s “Run the Rabbit Path” features a familiar family story with an unexpected payoff in its premiere production.
Director Marya Sea Kaminski is off to a great start with a cast led by Tamara Tunie, in Shakespeare’s fantasy of revenge and forgiveness.
2018 Post-Gazette Performer of the Year Wali Jamal delivers PG/August Wilson House honor in person.
“The Waltons” star has logged six decades on stage, often in the works of O’Neill, Chekhov, Shaw, Beckett and Shakespeare.
He attended Carnegie Tech and performed with the American Conservatory Theater in Pittsburgh and San Francisco.
Laughs and sentiment highlighted the 2018 Theater Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Gershwin Theatre on Monday.
It’s powerful as visceral experience and shockingly entertaining as satirical, even surreal commentary.
As long as this confusion reigns, the play intrigues, skating on the edge of Pinter-land.
Vanessa German’s charisma is a highlight of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre production, extended through Oct. 14.
The audience is invited to participate in the play with the “Stupid” title, inspired by Chekhov and performed by a capable cast.
The Hatch Arts production at Nova Place features six actors playing 13 roles in the Pulitzer finalist play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
The very title is as big as can be, the vainglorious name given the huge ship that sank in 1912, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew.
In a very old tradition, the Pittsburgh Public Theater has chosen to follow the season's highpoint, a wonderful "Hamlet," with that tragedy's complete antithesis, the Reduced Shakespeare Com…
HOUSTON, Texas " The Ensemble Theatre, the third largest African-American theater company in the country, threw itself a double party on May 12. It was celebrating the opening of August Wils…
We've recently had a number of "we are the world" plays, in the spirit of those lawn signs welcoming all ethnicities and religions. Some were written or conceived before our recent civic div…
Who was the first great American playwright? Shakespeare, of course, on whom American theater cut its teeth for a century or more.
Heisenberg, n. (1) Werner Heisenberg (1901-76), a theoretical physicist. (2) A 2015 play by Simon Stephens now at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. (3) Heisenberg's Uncertainty Princi…
Old family snapshots, personal memories and a search for the differing truths behind them might seem common fodder for a poem, but for a play? Sounds more like therapy than theater " but not…
While telling us to turn off our cell phones, artistic director Andrew Paul strictly enjoins us not to give away "the twist" that provides much of the fun.
Sometimes the personal and political seem at odds, but their conjunction can suggest a larger truth, or at least a hope. Such is the case with Dominique Morisseau's "Detroit '67," a 2013 pla…
For the final professional stage production at the grand and ramshackle old Pittsburgh Playhouse, soon to be deserted for new digs Downtown, the powers that be at Playhouse Rep clearly scann…
Inevitably, right from the start, it's all about the performance. Yes, there's a story, but that seems mainly the pro-forma framework on which to erect the one-man performance through which …
