Mike Vargo
For an inside lo at the “extreme makeover” of the Warhol Museum, we travel back to its beginnings … then fast-forward to the museum’s new approach to conveying “the multidimensional Mr. Warhol” and his art.
The Andy Warhol Museum has redone its exhibits from top to bottom for its 20th anniversary. More than ever, says our review, the new twists make The Warhol an intriguing “indoor theme park.”
Strange things happened on the opening night of Orlando.
There is nothing in theater quite like an evening of one-acts. If the plays are right you get a greatest-hits effect, a sampling of tightly honed short pieces in different styles and moods. That’s what the Pittsburgh Pride Theater Festival is going for with this year’s offering: two comedies plus two dramas, all of them…
If you enjoy plays that eve the spirits of bygone ages and stages, then PICT Classic Theatre—formerly Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre—is the company for you. Although PICT does some contemporary pieces, it specializes in throwbacks, the many works that either were written or are set in the years before the Internet. The group’s 2014…
It’s not easy to do wacky physical comedy about a dead-serious subject. And when the time comes for theater reviewers to give informal recognition for Best This and That of the current season, Quantum Theatre’s Pantagleize will be on my list for several awards. One would be Best High Five Seen Anywhere. If you are…
How good a play is Tribes? To answer properly, I’d have to be all thumbs. Then I could give it ten thumbs up. Or nine, anyway. Maybe it falls a bit short of perfection. The point is that multiples and superlatives are needed to describe this play by Nina Raine, currently at City Theatre, because…
Any time is a good time to visit the Carnegie Museum of Art, but now is a great time.
One of the oldest themes in drama is the downfall of a great family. In such ancient Greek plays as the Oresteian Trilogy, or in Shakespeare’s King Lear, it is a royal family that comes to grief. In J.T. Rogers’s Madagascar—now being performed by Quantum Theatre—we follow the misfortunes of an upper-class American family, members…
It’s the movie that launched a thousand opinions. Out of the Furnace has proved such a range of reactions, both nationally and locally, that the buzz wars have come close to upstaging the movie itself. Is it a Best Picture candidate that offers a rare kind of cinematic storytelling or just a conventional story kept…
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