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A Letter from the Editor To our beloved readers, As most of you know, Pittsburgh in the Round has been working over two years to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of the local theate…
Get out your gram’s poodle skirt and slip on the Ray-Bans for some summer lovin’ at the 10 Minute Play Fest. This DIY theater cabaret that rolls out thrice a year and it happens again on…
There’s always something brand new at Quantum Theatre. Returning audiences know that they may experience theater as some locations only once as they visit niches of Pittsburgh poised for r…
Opera Theater of Pittsburgh’s 5th annual “SummerFest” is coming soon, and promises many musical treats – and the innovative company has a standing track record of making good on its …
Living in a small town can mean a lot of things. Some are happily comfortable and take pride in their town. Others view it as a prison that they have no idea how to escape. But for some folk…
In my past trips to CLO’s Cabaret Theater, I’ve seen a fast-paced farce (Boeing-Boeing) and a cutie pie musical (First Date) that both featured casts running around playing multiple char…
Yes, it’s THAT good. As the grand finale of its 2015-2016 season, City Theatre’s latest Main Stage production The Lion invites Pittsburgh audience onto a soulful journey with a heart-war…
“Attention must be paid!” In the midst of another Presidential Election year with gun violence and gun control at the center of everybody’s attention, it seems perfectly appropriate to…
Cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states (and the District of Columbia). Kinetic Theatre breaks the law and replaces the roosters with sharp performances in a production that is just as blun…
The Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater (PICT) is currently showing “Two Tales of Terror,” an excellently executed adaptation of the famous Edgar Allen Poe stories, The Tell-Tale Hear…
Have you ever wondered what if Jonathan Larson didn’t write Rent, but Rogers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, or Kander & Ebb wrote it instead?…
An enchanted forest has sprung to life in the heart of Pittsburgh as Bricolage Production Company presents Welcome to Here, a sensory-sensitive immersive experience designed specifically for…
When PARK productions did The Rocky Horror Show a while ago they performed it at the CLO Cabaret on the set built for Boeing Boeing. While that sounds inconvenient it was actually a super fu…
The only thing that would be more interesting than being Truman Capote, would be being Truman Capote’s switchboard operator. Capote was a famed novelist, screenwriter, and socialite known …
Terror. Alan Stanford, artistic and executive director of PICT Classic Theatre, admits he loves the genre and that he read Edgar Allan Poe under the covers as a child. Didn’t we all? But n…
It’s systematic. It’s hydromatic. It’s Grease the Musical! From the original 1972 Broadway premiere, to the 2016 Grease Live TV broadcast on FOX network, the story of Rydell High seem …
It goes without saying that One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a classic. The novel took readers inside a mental institution, humanized the patients inside, defined the “battleax nurse…
In case you missed any of our posts, here are every single one of our articles that we wrote about the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival this year. A very special thank you goes out to Xela Batchel…
Christopher Hahn, General Director of Pittsburgh Opera, was quite enthusiastic earlier this week when we discussed the company’s upcoming production of The Rake’s Progress, and I must sa…
Hover-boards, ladders, ropes, lifts, jumps, tricks, and stunts! A phenomenal performance created by Attack Theatre, Laws of Attraction is an exploration into how humans incorporate concepts …
I could fill a post-it note with all the knowledge I have of tennis. What little I do know I learned from playing Mario Tennis as a kid, and I’m pretty sure in real life the ball never bur…
When we left Part 1 of this mini-series on why Pittsburgh artists lose their heads over Shakespeare’s works, I took the liberty of supposing that his wife Anne might have held the clue to …
I finished the Fringe Festival with a midafternoon showing of Critters by Puppets in Performance at the YMRC. I was at this venue on Saturday and it nearly ruined the show for me but I was…
St. Mary’s Lyceum, 11 am is how I began my Saturday Fringe Fest Ukie Fusion, a production by the Slava Dance Company was an eclectic mix of modern and traditional Ukrainian customs narrate…
Friday April 15, the first night of Pittsburgh Fringe Festival took me to the James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy for Cup-A-Jo Productions, Passing Through. A world premiere play which ta…
