366 stories by "Sharon Eberson"
"Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women" was put in motion by a mistaken premise. The playwright Lauren Gunderson was asked by a theater leader if he could read her stage version of novel. It w…
Denis O'Hare follows in the miser-to-wiser footsteps of high-profile predecessors as the Ebenezer Scrooge of Pittsburgh CLO's "A Musical Christmas Carol," which returns to the Byham Theater …
What happens when two sets of New York parents seek a civilized response to an act of playground violence: one of their 11-year-old sons whacking the other with a stick, knocking out two tee…
Extraordinary voices vying for best in show and a vibrant, pulsating production touched down at the Benedum Center this week, as Hell’s Kitchen made Pittsburgh the second stop in the music…
It was 15 years ago that Patrick Jordan first read the Tony Award-winning play "God of Carnage," and put it aside. When he picked it up again, years later, something had changed. The Yasmin…
So much of the play "Enron" is true to life, that to call it a dark comedy, you must emphasize dark, or as a cautionary tale, a better emphasis would be: beware. Quantum Theatre is retellin…
Director Kyle Haden on Quantum Theatre Production, New Role at Pittsburgh Public, and CMU ColLABo. By SHARON EBERSON The Downtown parkway ramp spills onto Grant Street with a skyward view of…
You don’t have to be a role-playing gamer to appreciate "Night of the Moth Man," but it is a bonus, judging by the reaction to every role of the RPG dice on opening night. The spooky, spoo…
Commentary by Sharon Eberson: The countdown is on to year 25 of “laughter for a good cause.” OFF THE RECORD XXV: BURGH TO THE FUTURE! is less than a week away, and, as always, I’m feel…
An adaptation of "Bartleby, The Scrivener," written and performed by Sam Tsoutsouvas and directed by Andrew Paul for Kinetic Theatre, delivers a pitch-perfect solo retelling as Melville told…
Among the loudest applause on opening night of Noises Off at Pittsburgh Public Theater was the turntable reveal of the play-within-the-play’s backstage, to begin the second act. Another bi…
By SHARON EBERSON A dictator’s wife behaves like a spoiled child, oblivious to her people’s cries of anguish. What could possibly go wrong? The First Lady of the USA premiere play Firs…
Seductive multilingual, multicultural, multimedia "Another Kind of Silence," now at City Theatre. contains standard plot points from relationship dramas, but the playwright has wrapped the w…
By SHARON EBERSON American Theatre Magazine has released its lists of the Top 10 Most Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights for the upcoming 2025-2026 season, with Pittsburgh c…
Alexander E. Podolinski, a standout as Mordred in Pittsburgh CLO’s summer production of Camelot, will transform into that “Sweet Transvestite, from Transexual, Transylvania,” Dr. Frank…
It was no exaggeration when City Theatre announced that "Another Kind of Silence," the world-premiere play that leads off its 2025-2026 season, “is one of the most ambitious shows the comp…
On a lovely Sunday evening in Point Breeze, Pittsburgh international Classic Theatre introduced a three-play “aspirational,” with music to provide a taste of each of the show’s interna…
Mark Clayton Southers kicked off opening night of Two Trains Running by announcing that everyone present was now a part of history: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company was about complete …
Martin McDonagh wrote a doozy of a role when he created "Hangmen’s" Mooney, the walking, talking plot device who enters a pub in Northern England, emanating a persona that may just as well…
VIDEO: onStage Pittsburgh's Sharon Eberson chats with the directors of the 3-play August Wilson American Century Cycle Experience – Terrence Spivey, Ashley Southers and Mark Clayton Southe…
The creation of Arts Landing is progressing on time and on budget, reports the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, which has revealed “a bold and distinctively-Pittsburgh lineup of public artworks,…
Quantum Theatre’s production of The Seagull, adapted and directed by Joanie Schultz, takes Anton Chekhov’s tangled web of family dysfunction, artistic dissonance, and consequentially bad…
The Host of Pittsburgh’s Match Gayme Wishes We Could Return to a Time When Acceptance Was a Sparkling Ideal OPINION: By SHARON EBERSON Joe King was having a back to the future moment, and …
I know how it’s done, and I have seen it done numerous times, and every time, it’s still like magic. If you’ve seen Disney’s Frozen onstage, you know what I mean. It’s that split s…
It may be heating up outside, but it’s cool to be in the Cultural District,, where Pittsburgh CLO presents Disney’s Frozen as its summer 2025 subscription series finale, starting Friday,…
