Theater & Arts category, Page 39
Make your bed, learn to act: Alabaster children’s theater teaches bothVideo
What does making your bed have to do with theater arts? Kids who participate in Mary McCormack’s Alabaster Children’s Neighborhood Theatre find out right from the start. At a Jan. 7 introductory session for an upcoming class series on “The Little Mermaid,” McCormack asked participants who had made their beds...
Stage Right stages ‘Snow White’ musical, 2 locations set
Stage Right will present its first full-length original musical, “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs,” with performances set at the Lamp Theatre in Irwin and at Westmoreland County Community College near Youngwood. The show is a musical re-telling of the “Snow White” story as created by the Brothers Grimm in...
‘Snow Queen and the Goblin’ comes to The Theatre Factory in Trafford
It certainly is a fitting time of year for a children’s story about a snow queen living in an ice palace. Throw in a goblin who’s the queen’s minion and you have the makings of The Theatre Factory’s Kidworks production of Martha Bennett King’s play, “Snow Queen and the Goblin,”...
Jimmy Fallon and Lin-Manuel Miranda send Puerto Rico a ‘Hamilton’ love letter
Coinciding with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” performances in Puerto Rico, Jimmy Fallon took “The Tonight Show” to the island for Tuesday night’s episode. Miranda and the musical’s cast opened the episode with a parody of the show’s “The Story of Tonight,” updated with lyrics for “The Tonight Show” and complete with...
Steel City Improv Theater celebrates 9 years with comedy binge
Steel City Improv Theater is celebrating nine years this month, with a comedy binge set for 8-11:30 p.m. Jan. 26 at the 5950 Ellsworth Ave. theater in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood. Eleven groups are slated to appear, including Cardboard DeVito, Street Roses and Hotel Nowhere, 8 p.m.; Classy & Relevant, Fauna,...
Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Corteo’ is a celebration of (a clown’s) life
Cirque du Soleil’s latest production, “Corteo,” focuses on the funeral of a clown. The subject matter might seem like a sad scenario for the Canadian theatrical troupe that has brought joy and laughter to audiences around the world, including with its 22 current touring and residency shows. “Corteo,” an Italian...
Actors and Artists of Fayette County stage annual ‘One-Acts Festival’
A weekend of original one-act plays starts the new year and a new season for Actors and Artists of Fayette County at Geyer Performing Arts Center in Scottdale. AAFC’s second annual “One Acts Festival” Jan. 11-13 gives theatergoers an opportunity to check out three new plays directed by three local...
Pittsburgh Musical Theater stages ‘In the Heights’
Pittsburgh Musical Theater will stage “In the Heights” at the Gargaro Theater, 327 S. Main St. in the city’s West End, as part of its 2018-2019 Seize the Stage Season and Rockin’ West End Series. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24- 26 and 31 and Feb. 1-2, and at...
Review: ‘Hamilton’ proves worth the wait
“Hamilton” is exhausting – in a good way. A national tour of the historical musical created by superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda has taken up residence at the Benedum Center downtown through Jan. 27. The celebrated show, which runs two hours, 45 minutes with one intermission, is nonstop action with ambitious choreography...
