Monday, September 6, 2021
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:04PMMonday, March 9, 2020
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 c…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:49AMSunday, February 9, 2020
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:09PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:30PMTuesday, December 31, 2019
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:00PMTuesday, December 24, 2019
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 mo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:40PMMonday, December 23, 2019
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:32PMAfter 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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:12AMMonday, December 16, 2019
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 a…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:14AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
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-…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
