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‘Come Back, Little Sheba’ Explores the Land of Lost Dreams and Hope for Better Days

The Summer Company’s revival of William Inge’s “Little Sheba” brings a 1950s hit back home.

Broadway musicals

July Theater Guide: Big Winners, Gripping Geezer Dramas, and More

July isn’t only for musicals. The Pittsburgh theater schedule is stocked with stuff of many sorts.

fear it. Vanda (Whitney Maris Brown) aspires to play the dominatrix in shiny boots of leather

Power Play: ‘Venus in Fur’ Demands to Be Seen

The David Ives play at The Public is one sexy (and very funny) power trip.

Childhood is strange and Roald Dahl's vision of it was stranger: This photo from the Broadway production of "Matilda the Musical" may clue you to what the touring show is like.

June Theater Preview: New Shows from Old Times

Plays and musicals in Pittsburgh this month include new sizzlers coed up from vintage ingredients.

standing) and Lynette Fromme (Kassie Doherty) train their sights on a sinister symbol of the patriarchy

It’s Loaded: Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ Hits Epic Extremes at Stage 62

Dead presidents? This musical has them, and it’s on the money in ways than one.

they're all guilty of terror: Karen Baum

Night of the Undead: Poe’s ‘Two Tales of Terror’ at PICT

PICT Classic Theatre returns to action with a Gothic chiller adapted from two stories by Allan Poe.

L) sings of wonders to be had

May Theater Preview: Bases Loaded, You Make the Call

Pittsburgh live theater is loaded with variety this month, so let your gut choose—and we’ll help.

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CMU’s ‘The Plague in Venice’ Wakes Weird Echoes—Then Amplifies Them

Carnegie Mellon actors take an old classic over the top and ‘round the bend.

but not clearly: Solness isn't wearing his reality specs.|The photographer has shot Hilda and Solness dreaming in black and white

The Joy of Hex: Quantum’s ‘The Master Builder’ Offers Fascinating Field Trip to Hell

When Ibsen meets Quantum Theatre, it’s an eye-opener and a hair-raiser.

inflamed papa Knut Brovik (John Reilly

April Theater Preview: Updated Classics and Big Prizewinners

What’s new in Pittsburgh live theater this month? Big stuff—and lots of classical old stuff, newly re-imagined.

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