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Mike Webster’s Story Makes Snappy Good Drama at Pittsburgh Playwrights

’12:52 The Mike Webster Story’ contains everything that comes to play on a good Sunday in fall!

Doub (Chuck Timbers)

Pittsburgh Playwright’s’ ‘Jitney’ Will Transport You to 70’s Hill District Drama

Pittsburgh Playwrights’ production of August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ added to the grand opening weekend of the August Wilson House.

' (l. to r.): Hambone (Ananias J Dixon)

Catch The Public’s ‘Two Trains Running’ to August Wilson’s 1968 Pittsburgh

‘Two Trains Running’ demonstrates August Wilson’s mastery of dialogue.

Pumpkin (Melva Graham)

City Theatre’s ‘Paradise Blue’: Chock-Full of Riveting Characters

‘Paradise Blue’ is a dramedy that uses a historical backdrop to explore African American life in good times and bad.

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March Theater Guide: Thoroughly Modern Masters

It’s the month of the living playwrights in Pittsburgh on theater. Everything is contemporary.

' a fictional Snowden clone must confront his inner demons while wondering who's got his back. Quantum streams the play in the intimate-realism style of early TV

Quantum Streams Psycho-Thriller ‘Wild’ (Tues., 10/20/20)

‘Wild’

' a fictional Snowden clone must confront his inner demons while wondering who's got his back. Quantum streams the play in the intimate-realism style of early TV

Quantum Breaks New Ground In an Old Way with ‘Wild’

The livestream of a modern psycho-thriller goes for realism like that of early TV dramas.

Mythburgh Goes Online in ‘Yinzer Scared’ Series from 12 Peers (Sun., 8/30/20)

Mythburgh ‘Yinzer Scared On’

Lara Hayhurst plays Maria in PMT's 'The Sound of Music.' (photo courtesy of the company)|The Mormon missionary (Jerreme Rodriguez) and Broadway diva Ethel (Christine Laitta) have their signals crossed in CLO's 'Book of Merman

March Theater Guide: Power Plays

Live theater in Pittsburgh this month features shows packed with emotional, social, and artistic power.

Michael McBurney (right) rattling the chains that Marley once bore

Dickens Meets Late-Stage Capitalism in Bricolage’s ‘Yinzer Scrooged’

The Christmas play at Bricolage is not only a Pittsburgh-ized spoof. It’s compelling theater.

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