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Theater Preview: Lobby Hero at the Pgh Public Theater

The Public's 30th season celebration concludes with Lobby Hero, from Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (You Can Count on Me) Kenneth Lonergan. Acclaimed for his sharp and honest writing (This is our Youth), Lonergan sets this viciously funny, modern morality tale in a Manhattan high-rise lobby where a lousy security guard, his officious supervisor, and two of "New York's finest" discover the damage caused by doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.

"Lobby Hero is not only the best drama this year; it's the best comedy, the best romance, the best character study and the best issue play all rolled into one." - Time Out New York

This show is performed with one 15 minute intermission and contains adult language.

PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

Tuesday – Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday performances at 2 and 7 p.m.; Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. on June 11, 18 and 25; Thursday matinee at 2 p.m. on June 23; The Tuesday, June 21 performance begins at 7 p.m.

No public performance on Wednesday, June 8

Previews begin: Thursday, May 26 at 8 p.m.;
Opening Night: Friday, June 3 at 8 p.m.;
Closing: Sunday, June 26 at 2 p.m.

Free talkbacks will be held after the 2 p.m. matinees on Sunday, June 12; Saturday, June 18 and after the 7 p.m. show on Tuesday, June 21.

Buy tickets online. Click here.

May 23: "The Underpants"

[pic courtesy of the Tribune Review]

Produced by: City Theatre Company

When: Previews begin at 7 p.m. today. Opens Wednesday. 9 p.m. May 28, June 4 and 11; 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays; 7 p.m. Tuesdays; 5:30 p.m. Saturdays; 2 p.m. all Sundays

Cost: $15 to $40

Where: City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St. at South 13th Street, South Side

Details: 412-431-2489 or www.CityTheatreCompany.org

Summary coutesy of Trib Review's Alice T. Carter:

The cynic would assume it was only a matter of time until someone wrote a play about the uproar that results when a woman has a wardrobe malfunction during a very public ceremony.

But playwright Carl Sternheim anticipated the flap over Janet Jackson's public revelation by nearly a century.

In 1910, Sternheim wrote a classic German comedy, "The Underpants," about a puritanical bureaucrat whose wife becomes an object of attention when she accidentally loses control of her underpants during a parade. read on...

May 23: Jimbo Mathus & his Knockdown Society

Venue: Moondog's
Date: Monday, May 23, 2005
Time: 8 p.m.
Ticket price: T.B.A.
Ticket contact info: 412-828-2040

378 Freeport Rd, Blawnox, PA (412) 828-2040

Jimbo Mathus formerly performed with Squirrel Nut Zippers and Buddy Guy

May 23: Late Show at Club Cafe

Can't make it for the early show at Club Cafe to catch Sophie B. Hawkins? Then check out the late-night scene on the South Side...and even satisfy any late-night cravings you may have!



Monday, May 23, 2005 at 10:30PM

The A to Z of Pop. The Sleaze sings every pop song ever written...and asks you to sing along! Guests are always welcome and Monday Night with The Sleaze is the perfect cure for the weekend. No Cover...KITCHEN OPEN UNTIL 11PM!!!

Doors Open At 10PM
NO COVER!!

Call Club Cafe at 412-431-4950 for more details.

May 23: Sophie B. Hawkins at Club Cafe

Sophie B. Hawkins
Special Guest - Joey Murphy and John Neilson

Monday, May 23, 2005 at 7:30PM

SOPHIE B. HAWKINS is lost in the WILDERNESS…right where she wants to be.On WILDERNESS--her first independently recorded, conceived and released album, co-produced with production wizards Christian and Frank Berman (Amber, Baha Men, Real McCoy)--the provocative singer/songwriter declares her freedom with, paradoxically, the most accessible project of her career.

Doors Open At 6PM
$18 in Advance and Day of Show
Tickets available through TicketMaster
Charge by phone 412-323-1919.
Call Club Cafe at 412-431-4950 for more details.

www.sophiebhawkins.com

Theater Preview: Heartbreak House at the Charity Randall

By George Bernard Shaw
June 2–25, 2005
Charity Randall Theatre, Oakland
A fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes.

The most powerful dynamics that the theatre can present.This season, PICT harnesses the opposing forces of comedy and villainy to explore the absolute limits of character. Join us for six taut confrontations, including three premieres, at the frontier between darkness and light.

Directed by Gregory Lehane. Starring Helena Ruoti, Laurie Klatscher, and Larry John Meyers.

Love versus Money. Witty, grand, and prodigiously wise, Shaw’s masterpiece has everything: young love, hypnotism, loud explosions, philandering, burglary, and music. Into the eccentric household of Captain Shotover and his daughter Hesione comes Ellie Dunn, a young woman ready to marry for money rather than love. Should financial concerns take priority over romantic ones, or should we hold on to our ideals, regardless of the consequences?

“Heartbreak House was far too lazy and shallow to extricate itself from this palace of evil enchantment. It rhapsodized about love; but it believed in cruelty.”

The Lowdown:
Visit the PICT Theater website for tickets and showtimes.