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  Donovan Elliot-Smith as Prince Charming, and  Shannon Jennings as Cinderella Credit all Photos Alisa Innocenti Lately, I started to do something I rarely do - watch scary movies. Solely to get me in the mood of Halloween, I sat through the haunted darkness of The Nun, the mayhem of Terror of Hallow’s Eve, The Curse of Crom: The Halloween Story, the eerie, bleakness of The Wind, the spine tingling Before I Wake and the strange Catholic mysticism of The Sentinel.     Today I found the antidote, the remedy and the balance for all this cinematic darkness,   something at the opposite end of the spectral spectrum in the form of . . . drum roll, please, Cinderella.     To help celebrate the tenth birthday of Resonance Works Pittsburgh, I headed down to the studio theater at the Carnegie Library and Music Hall in Carnegie for a staging of Cinderella, an unheralded opera by Pauline Viardot. While the Steelers were getting shellacked at home by the Jaguars, I enjoyed a glass of punch and o

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  A magical holiday season with Pittsburgh Festival Opera awaits! This December you have two opportunities to hear world-renowned singers perform live in unforgettable Legends in the Limelight concerts. Tickets are going fast. Get yours today! Legends in the Limelight : Csilla Boross Csilla has sung in many opera houses in the world. Now she is singing for you. Don’t miss your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear this powerhouse vocalist in an intimate concert right here in Pittsburgh. VIP ticket holders can meet Csilla at a private post-performance reception. Friday, December 1 2023 | 7:30pm Carnegie Music Hall 300 Beechwood Ave. Carnegie PA 15106 TICKET OPTIONS $65 General Admission (Concert only) $90 VIP : includes both the concert and a post-performance reception $15 student ticket (with valid ID) TICKETS Legends in the Limelight : A Christmas to Remember featuring Greg Kunde Enjoy the signature event of the holiday season! Join PFO for an incredible concert by the one and only

  Last evening, I caught a comedy titled "Himbos," at the New Hazlett Theatre on Pittsburgh's North Side.   Took along theater groupie, Iris Holleran, a good choice because Iris has a great sense of humor. She loved the show as did I, though not quite as much as she did. Playwright Brian Pope creates a male version of Hooters in which all the waiters and staff are scantily clad, but tastefully so. No nudity here.   The over-the-top antics of the actors were hilarious. In the post-show discussion, the cast were so articulate and discussed the comedy intelligently, all the while maintaining awry   sense of humor.   There's one more showing this evening, so, if you want to chuckle and laugh, get a little levity in your life, Himbos is a good remedy. Thanks to Iris for pointing out the adaptation of the word Bimbos into the comedy's clever title Himbos.

  JAZZ CONCERTS November 8 & December 13   Additional tickets available! Additional Tickets Available for November & December Jazz Concerts!  If you're already registered for one or more of the upcoming jazz concerts, thank you! If you haven't registered yet (or want to bring some friends), good news: Additional tickets are now available!  Special Addition! Frank Lloyd Wright's Southwestern Pennsylvania  open during Cocktail Hour (6-7pm) The Museum's Cantilever Gallery will remain open during the Cocktail Hour before each concert.  Frank Lloyd Wright's Southwestern Pennsylvania  includes a viewing theater showing three of Wright's unrealized Pittsburgh designs as a  digital animation film, with an accompanying musical score by Daniel May with Marty Ashby, produced by MCG Jazz . Concert Details Wednesday, November. 8 Cocktail Hour & Cantilever Gallery Open (6-7pm) Jazz Concert: Eric DeFade (7-9pm*) * Enjoy a complimentary coffee at intermission. Wedne

  Zanny Laird as Bella and Dan Mayhak as Marc Credit Jason Snyder     For its landmark 100th production, Quantum Theatre has selected a timely staging of a work about the love and artistic life of Marc Chagall and his wife, Bella, a poet and writer.     I use the word timely because the Chagalls lived, loved and worked through some tumultuous times, including Russian pogroms against the Jews in their native town of Vitebsk (Belarus), the Russian Revolution and both World Wars. They experienced war and political upheaval, much like what’s currently plaguing the world of today in the Ukraine and Gaza.     Referencing the couple’s Russian-Jewish heritage, which made its way into Chagall’s paintings, the production features Klezmer music written by Daniel Jamieson and Ian Ross. and includes and whimsical sets by scenic designer Stephanie Mayer-Staley, in which Marc and Bella are the picture of a head-over-heels romance, floating over a Russian village or the Eiffel Tower,     To ca

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