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Pittsburgh-area Bloggers invited to "The Vagina Monologues" (Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:46 PM ): UPDATE: Please tell other bloggers and post this on your site -- spread the word about this neat event. As you may know, City Theatre invites me often to attend and review their productions. They asked me to help promote...

All the fun that's fit to print (Sunday, 02 December 2007 10:33 PM ): To help you plan your week, here are the key events on my schedule. Please join me when you can: Wednesday, December 5: The 74th anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition. I'll post recommended beverages on Wednesday. For now, if...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-seven, Murderers, animated treadmills, and yet more writing (Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:36 PM ): I've mentioned before that "Murderers," currently playing at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's South Side, is a terrific play and well worth your time and money, yes? The play is three monologues, each by a different actor, each beginning with...

Month Impossible: Day Fifteen (Thursday, 15 November 2007 10:34 PM ): Thumbnail Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey I've lost the concept of downtime. I still experience downtime, but not on purpose. That is, I'll plan to spend an evening working -- as I did tonight -- and then I'll start fixing...

City Theatre open house and new season (Wednesday, 10 October 2007 08:16 PM ): .caption { text-align: center; font-size: 10px; color: #666666; margin: 0; padding: 6px; } A few weeks ago, City Theatre in Pittsburgh held an open house, including backstage tours and previews of plays in production. Theater is all about illusion,...

"In Service" multimedia event premieres tonight (Thursday, 04 October 2007 01:15 PM ): An important and interesting event is premiering tonight in Pittsburgh, involving Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Bricolage Theatre group. The event is called In Service. It's part documentary, part live oration, with several local Iraqi war veterans coming out onstage, live,...

To do: Open House at City Theatre (Tuesday, 28 August 2007 06:00 PM ): Next Friday will be a busy one in Pittsburgh. In addition to the Gist Street Readings and the Pirates playing Chicago Cubs at home (Vintage Cap Night!), there's this very fun event at City Theatre on the South Side: Fun-Festive-FREE-Fifth...

Those who can't do, blog (Sunday, 27 May 2007 10:29 PM ): Here's a thoughtful essay on criticism and the authority of the critic: "Just Who Is This Guy?" by Jerome Weeks. Weeks looks primarily at the authority of literary blogs, which have been under attack of late from print media, primarily...

Promoting people who are not me (Tuesday, 01 May 2007 01:43 PM ): Dear everyone, including visitors arriving here from the Burgh Blog: I've little time to make fresh content for you today, but that gives me extra space to tell you to go see "The Missionary Position" at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's...

Let's put on a play: "Act of Creation/Between the Lines" at City Theatre (Saturday, 31 March 2007 02:19 PM ): An interesting event on April 1 at City Theatre: As part of its New American Trio programming, City Theatre will open rehearsal of The Missionary Position to the public on Sunday, April 1 from 5:30 to 6 pm. At 6...

Thoughts on "Mezzulah, 1946" (Sunday, 25 March 2007 08:31 PM ): I saw "Mezzulah, 1946" at City Theatre recently. It's a fun play, upbeat and entertaining. Crux of the plot: It's 1946, and the men returning from World War II have reclaimed their jobs, displacing the women who filled them in...

What to do this weekend (Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:50 AM ): Three activities this weekend that will make it worth your while to dig yourself out from the snow: 1. The Muckleman is playing at City Theatre through February 18. At the opening night party I asked some people at...

A Picasso at the City Theatre (Thursday, 23 November 2006 11:56 PM ): 1. I have two Picassos. Of course they are reproductions, and small ones at that, little prints in beat-up frames. My grad school roommate Sharon gave them to me -- she found them in an antique shop. They depict two...

City Theatre special event: "Stage Directions" (Monday, 13 November 2006 09:13 AM ): Unique discussion TONIGHT (Monday 11/13) at City Theatre: "Stage Directions," a discussion by the Artistic Director Tracy Brigden and Artistic Associate Kellee Van Aken. From the e-newsletter: [They] will lead a talk about casting and directing plays that have never...

Endgame (Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:45 AM ): Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Everybody knows about those cheese balls (Wednesday, 02 March 2005 10:35 PM ): I'm going to be in a play, and you should come see it. The Butler Little Theatre's next production is "The Book of Liz," written by Amy Sedaris and David Sedaris. The story centers on Sister Elizabeth Donderstock, a member...

Time for a House Party (Monday, 24 January 2005 12:36 PM ): Melanie Miller, founder and choreographer of Pittsburgh's Junction Dance Theatre, is looking for stories set in rooms of houses, to use a raw material for a upcoming work. Here's her call for ideas: I would like to invite you to...

There are only small actors (Monday, 22 November 2004 09:44 PM ): A public service message for people who audition for community theater productions: If you should receive a call from the producer of a production, offering you a role different from that for which you had wished, please remember these points:...

Drink of the week: Vampire (Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:25 PM ): Tonight I'll attend the Butler Little Theatre's production of Dracula, and afterwards I'll bring friends back to my piano lounge for cocktails. I expect we'll need something strong (dare I say 'biting'?) to recover from the show. Here's what I'll...

Wrap it up, I'll take it (Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:46 PM ): Today's lesson, regarding The History of Paper and Papermaking: Corrugated Paper Products In 1856, Englishmen, Healey and Allen, received a patent for the first corrugated or pleated paper. The paper was used to line tall men's hats. However, this was...

Who's hungry? (Friday, 04 June 2004 01:23 PM ): Last year I created and managed the props for the Butler Little Theatre's production of Over the River and Through the Woods, a play primarily about family and love but also about food. During the play, the characters eat and...

Old Vic follows the lead of Butler Little Theatre (Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:45 AM ): Kevin Spacey, new Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theater Company in London, announced that the theater will present The Philadelphia Story: Dual Oscar-winner Spacey said he also intended to stage "The Philadelphia Story" next year and had been talking...

Butler, Pennsylvania: Cultural mecca (Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:46 PM ): A couple of weekend events for those in western PA: The Butler Little Theatre opens its production of Proof, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning drama, tomorrow (March 19). The show will run through next Saturday (March 27), except Monday....

All the world's a stage (Monday, 23 February 2004 02:17 PM ): Terry Teachout, theater critic for the Wall Street Journal among other roles/publications, discusses the enjoyment he finds in small, non-Broadway theater. Since moving back to the town I grew up in, I've gotten involved in our terrific community theater, the...

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