Mike Vargo

Frida Kahlo in Photos: Twinned Shows at The Frick Pittsburgh Reveal an Artist’s Life

Pittsburgh gains rare insights into a woman who has become a global phenomenon.

March Theater Guide: Thoroughly Modern Masters

It's the month of the living playwrights in Pittsburgh online theater. Everything is contemporary.

Quantum’s ‘Far Away’ Brings High-Quality Chiller Theater to Home Screens

An eerie dystopian play by Caryl Churchill gets a full-up film production from Pittsburgh's Quantum Theatre.

Love blooms among the drudgery of work in a hat factory for Joan (Lisa Velten Smith) and Todd (Andrew William Smith) in Caryl Churchill's "Far Away" at Quantum Theatre. (photo: Heather Mull Photography).

February Theater Guide: New Ventures in Online Experience

The theater stream is starting to perk up again with some interesting productions.

Great men at night, looking for the light. 'One Night in Miami" stars (L to R) Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke, Eli Goree as Muhammad Ali,, Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X, and Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown. (Photo courtesy of Amazon Studios)

The Room Where It Happened: “One Night in Miami”

The new movie about Muhammad Ali and his friends, based on real events in the turbulent Sixties, is scoring a knockout with Pittsburgh at-home viewers.

December Theater Guide: Full Stream Ahead

Holiday productions have gone online this year and there are many sugar plums.

Writer/performer Shua Potter nails it in 'Claws Out.' (photo: Kristi Jan Hoover)

City Theatre’s ‘Claws Out’ Rips a New Path to Holiday Cheer

'Claws Out,' subtitled 'The Holiday Drag Musical,' aims to be naughty AND nice.

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Roars at the Manor (Wed., 12/2/20)

'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Comes to the Big Screen

African-American musicians of the Roaring Twenties roar to life in the film made from August Wilson's play.

Big Show, Worth a Long Look: ‘Femme Touch’ at The Warhol

Women, trans women, and queens take center stage in The Warhol's museum-wide exhibition.