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Reviewer: Elizabeth Detloff Occasionally one might find themselves scrolling on Facebook and suddenly come across a photo of an old high school friend. One might discover their friend is cast in Pit and Balcony’s After Dark holiday show called The Eight Reindeer Monologues. One may grab another high school friend and tickets to the Saturday show and head to their first After Dark production.  I have been a long time fan of Pit and Balcony and have been to many Friday night […]

Reviewer: Elizabeth Detloff Season ninety-two aptly themed desires & disasters proved with the opening play that it would be delivering both. Seats in our lovely community theater filled in the fading summer warmth. Did the audience know it would be taken on an emotional journey that would leave them questioning if clapping was the correct response to the scenes witnessed.  The audience is dropped right into the storyline, making you feel as if you might be missing information. It does not […]

Reviewer: Kristine Gotham Pit and Balcony Theatre opened the final show if their 91st season last evening, with a powerful and emotionally charged performance of Theresa Rebeck’s two-act play, Sunday on the  Rocks.  The play was presented in  Black Box format, seating the audience directly on the stage, within a few feet of the actors.  It felt as if one was a fly on the wall, intimately observing the characters as they moved through their daily activities, unobserved but impacted by the emotions […]

Reviewer: Kristine Gotham Casey (Heather Koch) and Aaron (Justin Russell) are meeting for the first time. Each one is hopeful that this might actually be “the one” that they have been looking for, the one who will heal all the hurts from the past, the one that will make them feel whole and complete. Pit and Balcony’s presentation of First Date, chronicles Casey and Aaron’s date from arrival to the walk home. A cast of five supporting actors, portraying a dozen or […]

Reviewer: Kristine Gotham Pit and Balcony Theatre continued its 91st season with the Regional Premier of Sweat by Lynn Nottage.  The play focuses on seven people who work or have worked in a local manufacturing plant, some have worked there for years, some are newcomers, and one worked there until he was injured and let go.  Each character appreciates having a job with a salary that is far above what they might find elsewhere.  They can afford to live their life and have extras […]