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‘Collaborators’ Drums Up Ghosts of Terror Past

Quantum Theatre’s latest is a history-based tragicomic fantasy by John Hodge.

L) and Stalin (Martin Giles) engage in spirited dialectics while Bulgakov's wife Yelena (Dana Hardy) tries to sleep it off in 'Collaborators.'|Harriet Beecher Stowe

April Theater Guide: History on Parade

Shows that are drawn from history, or tinker with it shamelessly, highlight this month’s live theater schedule in Pittsburgh.

Henry

‘The Guard’ Steps Out of the Ordinary

Jessica Dickey’s play at City Theatre travels to where normal folks don’t go.

Beth Corning steps to her own drummer and Donald Byrd can’t do a thing about it in ‘What’s Missing?’

March Theater Guide: Choices, Choices

There’s mucho variety in March on live theater stages in Pittsburgh.

Sir Toby

‘Twelfth Night’ at The Public Sets the Silly Bar High

The current production of a very silly Shakespeare comedy earns an A for Absurdity.

' missionaries Kevin and Arnold have a feeling they're not in Utah any more. (The photo is from the 2013 touring production.)

February Theater Guide: A Cavalcade of Culture

The month’s live theater schedule in Pittsburgh features shows across the cultural spectrum.

L) dons his fightin' sombrero and The Fundamentalist (Nicola Slade) flexes the Mother of All Triceps

The Art of the Heel: ‘Chad Deity’ at barebones

‘The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity’ is a journey into the trumped-up world of pro wrestling … and .

meet His Highness the King. Mezzo-soprano Leah de Gruyl may not look like Richard I when out of costume

January Theater Guide: Slow Start, Exciting Finish

In Pittsburgh theater, the schedule for early January is a bit spare but later there’s plenty of good fare.

it's Bob Cratchit (Jeffrey Howell) with Tiny Tim (Marco Attilio Petrucci)! Looking on in the background

CLO’s ‘Musical Christmas Carol’ Features the Miser, the Mirth, and the Mythical

Pittsburgh CLO stages an intriguing adaptation of Dickens’ classic ‘A Christmas Carol.’

soprano Katy Williams

December Theater Guide: To the Holidays… and Beyond

Live theater this month includes Christmas shows, a sort-of-Christmas show, and lots of stuff with no jingle bells whatsoever.

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