Till the World Ends
by Dani Janae, staff writer One of the last things I did before COVID hit was perform some of my poems for Locals Only at Thunderbird. The show was organized by local drag and video artist Gia Fagnelli. Locals Only is a show that is curated to feature primarily Pittsburgh artists and creatives. Normally, I would perform a couple times a month, then take a couple months off to regroup, and I had a few more appearances lined up that got canceled or moved online. That night, I got the pleasure of meeting and seeing the artist Moody Ting perform on sax. When she opened playing Britney Spears, I knew I was in for a great night.
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Whodunit fans can test their detecting skills with season two of Prime Stage Theatre’s Mystery Theatre podcast series.
The first episode of “The Play’s the Thing,” written by Pittsburgh science fiction/mystery author Lawrence C. Connolly, will debut Thursday, with four more following on subsequent Thursdays.
“Lawrence Connolly’s Mystery Theatre podcast really sparks the imagination as ‘you’ try to solve each mystery,” said Wayne Brinda, producing artistic director of Prime Stage, based in the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh’s North Side.
Delana Flowers in
Sojourner Being cast as a historical figure is one thing, but getting approval from the figure s descendents adds a whole other level. This is what happened when Delana Flowers took on the role of Sojourner Truth for
Sojourner, a new production at Pittsburgh’s Prime Stage Theatre. Set in 1851, the one-woman show, written by Richard LaMonte Pierce, stars Flowers as the abolitionist preparing to give her most famous speech at a women s rights conference in Akron, Ohio. “While I am waiting to go out and speak, a Black journalist comes in and wants to do a short greeting,” says Flowers, a local performer, writer, and teaching assistant. “The play is me talking to this journalist and recalling different things in my life.”