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September Theater Guide: Is It ‘Fake History’ or Is It Art? 

Plays that re-imagine history are highlights of a loaded Pittsburgh theater schedule this month.

The ingredients are odd but "Waitress" aces the taste test for audiences nationwide.

March Theater Guide: We Are All ‘Multicultural’

Pittsburgh live theater in March includes a bunch of shows that are multi-ethnic, multinational, multimedia, and/or genre-busting.

the central figure in ‘Parade

November Theater Guide: ‘Twas the Month Before Christmas …

Soon it will be time for the Sugar Plum Fairy and Scrooge—but until then, there’s a lot of good non-holiday theater on tap.

A scene from 'School of Rock' at the New London Theatre with the original London cast. The national touring company will play the Benedum as part of the PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series. Photo by Tristram Kenton.|Teacher Dewey Finn shows his students how to jam. New London Theatre with the original London Cast. Photo: Tristram Kenton.

October Theater Guide: Action, Romance, and Introspection

As the weather starts to cool the theater and dance scene heats up.

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Quantum Goes for Big Theme, Big Effects with ‘Red Hills’

The new play at Quantum Theatre is a knockout-aspiring portrayal of reactions to the Rwandan genocide.

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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.

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.

So simple and yet so puzzling: Jason Shavers (center) says it all with a look while Mary Elizabeth Drake and Jamen Nanthakumar expound in "The Fantasticks."

October Theater Guide: Dancing into Autumn, and Much More

October in Pittsburgh is so full of live theater that one may hardly know where to start, so why not start with our Guide?

Isabel Pask (Casilda)

Quantum Theatre Stages 17th-Century Spanish Playwright Lope de Vega’s ‘Peribáñez’

The revival of an old master’s play garners new interest.

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