Bricolage Opens ‘Midnight Radio Lampoons Christmas Vacatyinz’ at barebones black box (Thurs., 12/4/25)

MIDNIGHT RADIO LAMPOONS CHRISTMAS VACATYINZ by Tami Dixon. Bricolage Production Company. December 4 – 21. 

Midnight Radio is actually live theater. And this holiday season, the Midnight Radio team resumes its run of unique Christmas comedies. Recent shows have included Die Hard N’at, a mind-bending spoof of the Bruce Willis-Alan Rickman skyscraper caper, transposed to Pittsburgh’s fictional Terrible Tower. An even trippier entry, Yinzer Scrooged, spoofed modern corporate capitalism, with Scrooge as a voracious CEO and single mom Barb Cratchit cleaning offices to support her dear child Tiny Tony. Now this year’s show ventures into meta-spoof. Midnight Radio Lampoons Christmas Vacatyinz is a lampoon of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the 1989 film about an extended family going nuclear at Yuletide. As before, the goal is to prove that yinzer humor can transcend cliché to become truly transcendental humor. As before, the play is presented as if you’re in the studio watching an old-time radio broadcast, with actors making non-digital sound effects and doing commercial breaks. As always, Midnight Radio is produced by Bricolage Production Company. Bricolage’s Tami Dixon wrote the Christmas Vacatyinz script and co-stars along with Patrick Jordan of barebones productions and others. Reserve tickets quickly because the show is hot, hot, hot. 7:30 p.m. Pay-what-you-can 7 p.m. In the barebones black box, 1211 Braddock Ave., Braddock. (M.V.)

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