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Written by Laura Izzo ​ Bravo to the cast and crew of Pit and Balcony’s production of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” It is a powerful performance of a powerful masterpiece.    This classic play opened Jan. 26 and the entire stage came to life as the cast embodied the persona of their characters and the dramatic lighting engaged the audience to follow the characters as they took ownership of the stage.  ​During the concluding “talk back” session, Director Danielle Katsouls  shared […]

Written By Mark De Wolf-Ott A sense of magic was in the air when Pit and Balcony opened its production of “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” on Friday night (Dec. 1). There were all kinds of characters in this C. S. Lewis imaginary snowy kingdom. A white stag, a unicorn, beavers, wolves, a faun (half man, half goat), a centaur (half man, half horse), a fox and a deer — and they all talked! How enchanting is that? […]

Written By Mark DeWolf-Ott And so it goes, heaven knows Anything Goes And it certainly did as the 86th season of Pit and Balcony Community Theater of Saginaw opened on Friday, Oct. 6, with a revival of the so-named popular Cole Porter Broadway show. Directed by Michael Wisniewski, the musical began with a few missed cues, technical glitches and opening night jitters. But it passed as Reno, played by Kaitlyn Riel, started the show with “I Get a Kick Out […]

by Janet I. Martineau  Hang on, Pit and Balcony Community Theatre patrons, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. An extremely bumpy ride that may leave you feeling a little nauseous now and then. But what’s this…did I hear myself laughing at perhaps inappropriate times? Tonight P&B opens perhaps its most risky show ever, “Heathers The Musical,” based on the popular 1988 cult film. This 2014 musical adaptation literally gives new meaning to the words satire, dark comedy or black […]

Review by Janet I. Martineau Memo from Pit and Balcony Community Theater of Saginaw to the Bay City Players: back at ya, game on. There is no way these two companies could have collaborated on producing back to back two of the most grandly written ensemble plays, with rich and deep human stories, based on the playwright’s life, with brilliant acting, direction and staging. But there we have it. Wow. Last weekend Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” opened in Bay City […]