PREPARE TO BE HYPNOTIZED Garden Party: Gothic Friday, June 12, 2026 | GA: $125 | VIP: $375 Step out from the shadows and onto the dance floor for Mattress Factory’s biggest party of the year, Garden Party: Gothic. Your support keeps Mattress Factory in the black. 100% of Garden Party: Gothic proceeds benefit the artistic, education, and community outreach programs that make Mattress Factory a pillar of the arts. And now, the moment you’ve been waiting for: The official Garden Party: Gothic entertainment announcement is here. As always, Garden Party will be MC’ed by the ever-ethereal Kat De Lac. 💃 RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE ENTERTAINMENT From haunting melodies to high-energy dance floors, performances will echo through the night across multiple stages from the following acts: CARSICKNESS Pittsburgh punk legends. 'Nuff said. slowdanger A performance entity made of anna thompson and taylor knight, creating work at the intersection of dance, sound, and techno...
The Cast of Our Town Photo Credit all to Kgtunney Photography I remember reading Thornton Wilder’s homey play, Our Town , while still in high school. Young, naïve and wet-behind the ears, I, living in a small Western Pennsylvania town at the time, related to the play on a visceral level. Richeyville, where I grew up starting at age 12, was enough like Wilder’s Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire to strike a familiar chord. Both had a soda shop, paper boy news deliveries, dairy delivered to the front door and a homespun atmosphere where folks took their time and lived mostly uneventful lives among tree-lined streets and middle-class sensibilities. Years later, now middle-aged, I saw my first live performance and spent much of the experience comparing it to the memories of my youthful introduction to the drama as well as feeling it again with a sense of nostalgia. Wilder wrote the work in 1938, but set it a few decades earlier in the years 1901 to 1913. Apparently a simp...