Dramatic Arts

Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the premiere production of The Coffin Marker, the newest addition to Mark Clayton Southers’ cycle of plays set in the 19th century, directed by Monteze Freeland.  The cast features local and national actors in a story of revenge in 1800s Oklahoma that is the…

Hello, and welcome to Shouts And Murmurs, a weekly email for paid supporters of The Crush Bar, written by me, Fergus Morgan. Every week, I round up the best theatre writing elsewhere - reviews, interviews, opinion, long-reads - plus any other interesting theatre-related stuff I find. Usually, it is all behind a paywall but…

 Prime Stage Theatre’s upcoming presentation of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution is a gripping courtroom drama of love betrayed, and murder avenged. Witness for the Prosecution opened in London in 1953 and was a smash hit before arriving on Broadway a year later. The 1957 Hollywood film version starred Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Elsa Lanchester, Ruta Lee, and Tyrone Power and was…

Hello, and welcome to The Crush Bar, a newsletter about theatre written by Fergus Morgan. This is the free, Friday issue, which usually contains a Q&A with an exciting theatremaker or an essay on a theatre-related topic. This week, there is an interview with Sam Grabiner, who won the Verity Bargate Award in 2022…

The Mendelssohn Choir, Soloists and Two Commissioned World Premières Add to What May Be the Most Remarkable Concert of the Season By GEORGE B. PAROUS Routinely, Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra present the writer with the challenge of reaching for superlative adjectives which haven’t been repeated to the point of monotony when describing…

Hello, and welcome to Shouts And Murmurs, a weekly email for paid supporters of The Crush Bar, written by me, Fergus Morgan. Every week, I round up the best theatre writing elsewhere - reviews, interviews, opinion, long-reads - plus any other interesting theatre-related stuff I find. For now, I’ve decided to stick with my…

By SHARON EBERSON Blending bold brushstrokes of historic events with insightful artistic license, Andy Warhol in Iran prods and pokes at a topical piñata, unleashing debates over art, politics, colonialism, revolution … all in 80 taut minutes, between two unlikely adversaries. Today, Andy Warhol and Iran in the same sentence hardly computes with what we…

Hello, and welcome to The Crush Bar, a newsletter about theatre written by Fergus Morgan. This is the free, Friday issue, which usually contains a Q&A with an exciting theatremaker or an essay on a theatre-related topic. This week, I’ve raided my contacts to find out what theatre people really think about reviews and…

Tony-winners Kimberly Akimbo, Some Like it Scorching, Existence of Pi and MJ guide a pack that also heralds Hamilton return By SHARON EBERSON The 2024-25 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh season characteristics 10 displays, which include a few of the top rated award-winners of 2023: the musicals Kimberly Akimbo and Some Like it Scorching, and the…

The 2024 August Wilson New Voices Monologue Competitors will be offered by the Monthly bill Nunn Theatre Outreach Job tonight, April 15, with actor Brenden Peifer serving as learn of ceremonies. Peifer, who has done with many local businesses, serves as the Outreach and Engagement Coordinator for the August Wilson Archive at the University of…