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May Theater Preview: Silly Season

Not to complain. Silly is good. And there’s a lot of it on Pittsburgh stages this month.

|Sleep no more! Senhor José has done deeds that torment him.|The godmother (Bridget Connors) has secrets she tries to keep behind her (and that's Cameron Knight as the secrets).

Chiller Theater: Quantum Haunts the House with ‘All the Names’

Quantum Theatre’s new play has dark secrets inside secrets.

foreground) must explain himself (or himselves) to the Registrar (Cameron Knight).|In "Oblivion

April Theater Preview: Bright Lights, Dark Comedy

Dark humor takes the spotlight at Pittsburgh theater companies in April.

while sweethearts Torch and Ray (Laurie Klatscher and Jason McCune

‘Endless Lawns’ Delivers a Four-Ring Circus

Anthony McKay’s “Endless Lawns” packs the stage with cage-match pandemonium—and it’s really about the lawn.

L) takes a job as personal assistant to super-wealthy Michaela (Kimberly Parker Green)

‘Elemeno Pea’ Digs Into Life’s Elementary Perplexities

City Theatre’s new comedy ‘Elemeno Pea’ offers a take on how both halves live.

Channeling August Wilson is Eugene Lee in The Public's 'How I Learned.'

March Theater Preview: Time Marches On

Pittsburgh’s live-theater forecast for the month includes the ghosts of the past and the wave of the new.

Even a friendly hijra gets snarly sometimes. This is Brahman cursing "the asshole" who invented pronouns.

In ‘Brahman/i,’ the Comic Is a Real Stand-Up Guy… and Girl

Quantum Theatre’s ‘Brahman/i’ is about a nightclub comedian who’s of a man and a woman than many of us can hope to be.

while Katie Travis (as Christine Daaé) won last year’s prestigious Lotte Lenya Competition for singing AND acting talent.

February Theater Preview: Put Down the Clicker

February is peak season for live theater in Pittsburgh, with a vast up of shows that invite you to put down the remote and come on out.

Sasha Allen (arms spread) is the Leading Player in the hooped-up new production of "Pippin."

January Theater Preview: Themes of Identity and Creation

Live theater in Pittsburgh opens the new year with several plays and musicals about people finding—or creating—new identities.

or double-agent William Scott (Ethan Hova) would be done for.|In off the WALL's "Or

‘Or,’ What? In the Dizzying New Play at off the WALL, That’s the Question

“Or,” a wild play about a remarkable woman, blends screwball comedy with feminist history.

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