1,774 stories by "Ghoover"
It was a sold out show on Thursday at the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre as yinzers far and wide gathered to see August Wilson’s 1983 play, Fences. The performance takes place in the 1950s…
Remember field trips in school? Where they’d bus you out to some fun location for the day and you’d learn about something different or maybe tour a place rich in unique history? I don’…
Detroit, as presented by the 12 Peers Theater has produced the sizzling play written by Lisa D’amour. From May 14th through the 30th this production can be seen in Shady Side at the Make…
Billed as a ‘modern day Our Town,’ barebones productions opened Miki Johnson’s American Fallsthis weekend to multiple sold out audiences. Johnson’s story tells the small town of Am…
Day two of the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival down, one to go! Today’s schedule initially had me seeing The Heritage Players’ Old Time Family Radio at StorySwap but due to construction and t…
It’s that time of year again kids! The Pittsburgh Fringe Festival kicked off its second annual festival May 8th and we’re in for even more fun than last year! First on my list of things …
Mysteries, murders, and the tales of whodunit come alive as South Park Theater presents the energetic, entertaining, and oh so hilarious, Something’s Afoot. Yes, South Park Theatre kicked …
On Saturday night PICT Classic Theatre opened the second and final installment of their Downtown Series with Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Despite the title, Brel passe…
As a writer, I am not often at a loss for words. But, when I went to see The Whale at Off the Wall Performing Arts Center (OTW) on Saturday night, I left the theater practically speechless. …
Few people define the American experience like that of The Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra. His songs, his voice, his style have captivated generations of Americans and he still can.…
“I didn’t like it… I LOVED it.” That’s what 6-year-old Maggie Martin said about her first night out at the theater—and, given the show she saw, it’s kids like her whose opinion…
It can be easy to look around the world and think about how people can seem evil. Heck, working in food service it can happen daily. While the morality of human beings can be debated for hou…
Point Park University’s Conservatory Theater Company has opened its production of the timeless A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams at the Pittsburgh Playhouse this past weekend.…
Must there always be a bedazzling display of flashing neon lights bundled with the magical glitz and glamour of resplendent people as they take their seats in some opulent theater. The light…
Having only briefly heard a mention of Howard Phillip (H.P.) Lovecraft in a high school literature class many years ago, I really had no idea what to expect walking into the Maker Theater fo…
As I pulled up to the Allegheny Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and then got back in my car and looped around to the former Northside Library (thinking to myself that I should’ve paid more …
My love for The Rocky Horror Show stems back to high school. I was a shy kid and the classic 70’s cult film was weird, sexy, and made absolutely no sense to me. But damn it felt fun. It le…
A wannabe novelist, an aspiring young filmmaker, an extremely liberal HBO executive, and a 17 year old fighting with her identity and religion bring together the cast of City Theatre’s pro…
Endless Lawns is an example of excellent execution of a poor plan. The problems with the production cannot be attributed to those who put together this incarnation of the play (its world p…
The Disappearing, a reading presented on Saturday night came across as very entertaining, and yet now it’s gone! Edgar Allen Poe’s works still can make a splash while remaining completel…
Twelve years after August Wilson performed his final play, the Pittsburgh Public Theater presents the Pittsburgh premiere of How I Learned What I Learned. The play is an autobiographical loo…
Prime Stage Theatre states the following two principles in their mission statement “… to entertain, educate, and enrich…” and “to bring literature to life.” These goals are both …
What do light boxes, aerial performers and copious amounts of plastic wrap have in common? They all were at the Quantum Theatre’s annual Q Ball Saturday night. Held at the work-in-progress…
City Theatre provided lots of laughs with its Pittsburgh premiere of Elemeno Pea by Molly Smith Metzler. This comedy of minimal manners bursts at the seams with the personalities of just fiv…
In their 77th season, The Pittsburgh Savoyards opened their latest production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado Friday night. Specifying “Gilbert and Sullivan” may be a bit redundan…
