With the Hat) is a large ensemble work revolving around the death of a beloved nun in uptown Manhattan. There’ll also be new plays as part of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s India in Focus festival (see page 5) and, for the sanguinary-minded, Evil Dead The Musical (Oct. 29-31), a touring comic take on the gory “Evil Dead” films, at the Byham Theater. The Benedum Center, meanwhile, hosts the touring production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Nov. 17-22), the 2014 Tony-winner for best musical. And the revitalized August Wilson Center hosts the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (Dec. 10 and 11), a one-man show about famed 18th-century AfricanBritish composer and man of letters Charles “Sancho” Ignatius.
Remy Zaken in The Diary of Anne Frank, Sept. 24-Oct. 25
Theater-goers seeking older or classic work won’t be out of luck. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co., for instance, stages Dulcy (opens Sept. 26), an early one by hometown legend George S. Kaufman and collaborator Marc Connelly (himself a McKeesport native). As artistic director Mark Southers continues recuperating from a bad car accident, this 1921 comedy, with its cast of 11, is directed by Corey Rieger. Pittsburgh Public Theater opens its season with The Diary of Anne Frank (Sept. 24), the 1955 adaptation of the iconic book. Point Park’s Conservatory has both Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Oct. 16-25) and Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (Nov. 6). And Bricolage Productions has two live-radio-style Midnight Radio shows: a dramatic adaptation of Orwell’s 1984 (Oct. 29) and the rather lighter-hearted, locally customized holiday spoof Yinz’r Scrooged (Dec. 3). D R ISC OLL@ PGHC ITY PAP ER.CO M
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