Summer Guide 2016 - Pittsburgh City Paper

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Front Porch Theatricals Presents

May 27-29 & June 2-5 New Hazlett Theater Directed by

RACHEL M. STEVENS

The Spitfire Grill is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Produced by Bruce. E. G. Smith, Leon S. Zionts & Nancy D. Zionts

Book and Music by James Valcq Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley

Tickets: www.frontporchpgh.com or 1-888-71-TICKETS Ticket prices: $30 online, $35 at door, $24 Students & Groups

A ZANY, SCREW BALL COMEDY FOR EVERYONE FROM 9 TO 99! Chicago at Pittsburgh CLO, June 17-26 {PHOTO COURTESY OF JEREMY DANIEL}

Chicago. John O’Hurley (Dancing With the

May 19 - Aug 14 Luke Halferty & Quinn Patrick Shannon | Photo: Archie Carpenter

Adapted by Patrick Barlow THE CABARET AT THEATER SQUARE IS A PROJECT OF THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST

Directed by Guy Stroman

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Groups 412-325-1582

Stars) stars in Kander & Ebb’s perennial favorite about crime and corruption in the big city, June 17-26 (CLO). Carmen the Gypsy. Bizet’s opera is re-imagined for the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh’s annual Summerfest, at various venues, June 22-July 9 (Summerfest). Bloody Hell. Company specializes in dark phantasmagoria takes on Prince Vlad and his vampire consorts, June 24-July 9 (Rage of the Stage). Church Basement Ladies. Musical comedy about the volunteers in a church kitchen in rural Minnesota in 1965, June 30-July 16 (South Park).

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Damn Yankees. Classic Adler & Ross musical about ambition, baseball, selling your soul and Lola getting what Lola wants, July 5-10 (CLO Cabaret). The Gin Game. D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer-winning two-hander about nursinghome residents who bond over cards, July 7-16 (Apple Hill). Anna in the Tropics. Nilo Cruz’s drama about life in a cigar factory in 1920s Florida, won the Pulitzer in 2003, July 7-23 (Little Lake). Kiss Me, Kate. Cole Porter’s backstage musical riffing on The Taming of the Shrew, at Falk Auditorium, July 8-23 (Summerfest). Anything Goes. Classic Cole Porter musical featuring tunes like the title number, “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “You’re the Top,” July 8-24 (Theatre Factory). Little Red Riding Hood. Opera Theater of Pittsburgh production of the world’s most-performed children’s opera, July 9, 16 and 23 (Summerfest). Come Back, Little Sheba. William Inge’s

1950 drama about a trouble Midwestern married couple and their young female boarder, July 14-24 (Summer Company). Julius Caesar. Handel’s opera about Caesar and Cleopatra, July 15, 17 and 23 (SummerFest). Shrek The Musical. Adaptation of the hit film about an ogre and a donkey on a mission to rescue a princess, July 15-24 (CLO). Jesus Christ Superstar. Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice’s 1970 rock musical, July 21-31 (Stage 62). The Tin Woman. Drama about a woman who tracks down the family of the young man who supplied her new heart, July 21-Aug. 6 (South Park). (So JJulius Caesar. Et tu, Brute? Shakespeare’s cclassic tragedy set in ancient Rome, July 22-July 30 (Throughline). Ju The Silent Woman. Strauss’ comic opera T about abo a man who thinks he’s marrying a shy young woman, July 22 and 24 (SummerFest). The Hound of the Baskervilles. Local favorite David Whalen plays Sherlock Holmes in this adaptation of the famous story, July 23-Aug. 7 (Kinetic). Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida. The musical about forbidden love in ancient Egypt, July 26-31 (CLO Cabaret). The Spitfire Grill. James Valcq and Fred Alley’s popular 2001 musical about a young woman just out of prison trying to start her life over, July 28-Aug. 6 (Apple Hill). The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Jay Presson Allen’s drama about an eccentric girls’-school teacher in 1930s England, July 28-Aug. 13 (Little Lake).

AUGUST The Birds. Contemporary playwright Conor McPherson’s adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier story about marauding birds in small town, Aug. 4-21 (Twelve Peers). CONTINUES ON PG. 54

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