"An Odyssey" at Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number One is the Odysseus we all know from the Homerian epic: valiant hero, master strategizer, sa…
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number One is the Odysseus we all know from the Homerian epic: valiant hero, master strategizer, sa…
There are likely as many ways to relate to Molly Smith Metzler's play Cry It Out as there are ways to react as a parent " and particularly as a mother " to the birth of one's first child. Th…
There's no way Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski could possibly have predicted that the impeachment trial would coincide with the Pittsburgh Public Theater run of Little Shop of Horrors. …
In Jungian psychology, the house symbolizes the mind, with the basement representing the deepest part of the subconciousness. As in the physical world, that psychic basement is a place cramm…
When William Shakespeare died in 1616, he left behind dozens of plays and hundreds of poems, but little other than a last will and testament to shed light on his personal life. That document…
The title of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play tells you a certain amount about what to expect from this funny and surprisingly moving play. Like the Tina Fey movi…
Allow me to introduce you to the fierce yet fragile preteens who populate Clare Barron's savagely wonderful play Dance Nation. There's Sofia (Mei Lu Barnum), that girl you knew in middle sch…
After he won the World Heavyweight Championship by roundly defeating Sonny Liston on February 25th, 1964, Cassius Clay celebrated his victory in private with three friends: R & B star Sa…
Reader, if " like me " you're a relatively recent transplant to Pittsburgh, the presence of the term "yinz" in the title of anything might immediately raise a question about your audience-sh…
About a third of the way into her narration of recent tumultuous events in her life, the title (and only) character in the play "Ciara" recalls the incantation her recently deceased mob-boss…