Reviewer: Beth Detloff Pull out your shoulder pads and tune up your keyboard ties, everyone’s favorite decade hits the stage in Saginaw. Season ninety-three at our local Pit and Balcony Theatre opens up with a heartbreaker. Over the next few hours that heartbreaker turns to a heartwarming happy ending for all. If you are already feeling the seasonal sadness pull you in as the sun sets early, pick up a ticket to The Wedding Singer and the laughs will pick up […]
Reviewer: Mark DeWolf-Ott After doing my research before going to the play; I didn’t expect much. I was surprised. I went into the theater with the idea that nothing is as funny as the articles say it is. I thought that I wouldn’t laugh. I was wrong. Many reviews compared the play to skits by Monty Python or maybe even Saturday Night Live. I would also compare it to The Honeymooners, I love Lucy, The Muppets, Adam Sandler, Weird Al Yankovic, […]
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 […]