Ted Hoover

Director TJ Pieffer stages thoroughly respectable production for Stage 62

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Matthew J. Rush, Candice Fisher, Damon Spencer, David Yazbek, Jeffrey Lane

This is a dance-heavy show and you need an outfit with the resources capable of bringing together this many great dancers

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Brigadoon, Pittsburgh CLO, Lerner & Loewe, Mark Esposito, Dontee Kiehn

Tim McGeever shines as put-upon best man in apt production from Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Theater, A Perfect Wedding, Tim McGeever, Hope Anthony, Matt Polk, CLO Cabaret

Little Lake Theater channels Tennessee Williams’ vision with its version of A Streetcar Named Desire

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Theater, A Streetcar Named Desire, Little Lake Theater, Tennessee Williams, Art DeConciliis, Ponny Conomas Jahn, Jena Oberg, Buddy Wickerham, Gregory Caridi

CLO production of David Yazbek classic delivers 18 years after original debuted

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Theater, The Full Monty, David Yazbek, Andy Kelso, Matt Dewberry, Kevin Massey, John Hickok, Randy Donaldson, Dan DeLuca, Natalie Charle Ellis, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Anita Gillette

Long Lost First Play (Abridged) starts strong, but drags due to repetition

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Theater, Reduced Shakespeare Company, William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged), Pittsburgh Public Theater, Long Lost First Play

Carla Ching has written a play that addresses ‘motel’ and ‘parachute’ kids

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Theater, Nomad Hotel, City Theatre, Carla Ching

At some point, Front Porch Theatricals is going to stop presenting one glorious production after another … but not yet

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Theater, A New Brain, New Hazlett Theater, Connor McCanlus, William Finn

Director Rob James gets credit for rounding up and guiding this cast of amazing singers.

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Theater, Dogfight, Andrew Carnegie Free Library, Music Hall, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Peter Duchan

It’s a funny, smart and moving work featuring two extremely juicy roles for actors.

Tags: Theater Reviews + Features, Theater, The Dresser, Joyce Miller, Mark Stevenson, Art DeConciliis, Ronald Harwood, Little Lake Theatre