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Are you looking for a fun evening out after a day of shopping?  An exciting venue after a day of self-indulgence around the dinner table?  The perfect show to jump-start your holiday spirit?  If you answered yes to any of these, then come join us at our small, friendly Pittsburgh theater for a dance show to remember. This weekend is your last chance to see ‘Express Burlesque with a Holiday Encore’ for an evening of tantalizing entertainment. During this Holiday Encore show, there will be a special appearance by Samuel Mancini from the Voice.  Samuel will make a fun appearance that will cause the girls to make special Christmas wishes! Come enjoy this old burlesque style show that will set your holiday spirit on fire.  What is Burlesque?  Burlesque is a form of entertainment based around dance, music, and the art of tease performed by professional dancers (not strippers) with degrees in dance.  The RED City Live Entertainment company is bringing back this art form to Pittsbur

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to enjoy a theater production at a small, friendly theater?  Well wonder no more. Click here to ‘stroll’ through our intimate Pittsburgh theater. Be sure to enter the theater stage area by ‘walking’ through the red curtains.  Come early and enjoy offerings from the Carnegie Coffee Company before the show. After strolling through our theater, you will understand why our next production, Well , is perfect for a theater like ours.  The play’s unique structure, both narrative and interactive at the same time, lends itself to our playhouse. Off The Wall Theater not only becomes the play’s setting, but you will feel like you are part of the play, as the cast and characters interact both with each other and with you. Well, a 2006 Tony Award-nominated play written by Lisa Kron, is a hilariously funny production that you don’t want to miss. Well is a story about a mother’s ability to heal others, but not herself, and the challenges that this juxtapos

Join us for a very special appearance by none other than Samuel Mancini from the Voice. During this Holiday Encore, a fun appearance by Samuel will cause the girls to make special Christmas wishes! The dancers might not be the only one making Christmas wishes.  What will you wish for as these 5 gorgeous professional dancers take you on a journey through your emotions? This is what Susie Dohmlo, co-producer, has to say about the dancers: “5 very different Flavors in one tastefully amazing tease. The Holiday encore is sexy and the costumes alone are worth checking out!” Express  Burlesque with a Holiday Encore is an exciting burlesque-style dance review that combines an old burlesque feel with a provocative, yet classy, modern twist. ONLY 4 MORE APPEARANCES AT OFF THE WALL THEATER. BUY TICKETS NOW AND LET SAMUEL MANCINI  AND THE DANCERS WOW YOU! November 22-23, 29-30, 2013 at 8:00 PM. Pittsburgh Theater Live Express Burlesque with a Holiday Encore is a special Off Th

Kick off your holiday spirit with this special showing of “ Express Burlesque with a Holiday Encore ” where 5 sexy, professional dancers will set the stage on fire!  Each dancer has her own unique stage personality. About the show:  Gorgeous professional dancers will take you on an exciting musical journey that’ll make you want to get up and dance, with a holiday ending that is sure to set your holiday spirit a blazing. Come meet these dancers at our special theater,  where every seat is a good seat. Roxy is fiery and is the life of every party Scarlett is classy, sexy & sophisticated Cat is hot and cool & moves with her own awesome flavor Jewel is the girl next door with a twist of sultry seduction Cherry is on a mission to lead the pack with eyes of mystery that keep you glued to her performance like a trance Let's Turn this City RED! November 22-23, 29-30, 2013 at 8:00 PM. Pittsburgh Theater Live!  This is a special Off

Express Burlesque with a Holiday Encore “Express Burlesque with a Holiday Encore" is playing tonight at Off The Wall Theater. If you haven’t been to our theater, you’ll be amazed at how intimate it is. You won’t get this close and personal to the show anywhere else. So come enjoy this old style burlesque show and set light to your holiday spirit now. These highly trained dancers (not strippers) will take you on a musical journey that you will enjoy and remember.  Let’s help RED City Live Entertainment turn this city RED! Nov. 15, 22-23, 29-30, 2013 at 8:00 PM. Pittsburgh Theater Live!  This is a special Off The Wall Theater event, produced by Susie Dohmlo & Reid Gustin of RED City Live Entertainment.   Click here for tickets and information.

Express Burlesque with a Holiday Encore Dancers Are you looking for a show to warm up your winter?  Then come see ‘ Express Burlesque with a Holiday Encore ’ for an evening of tantalizing entertainment. The RED City Live Entertainment  is bringing back a nearly lost art form to Pittsburgh. Burlesque is a form of entertainment based around dance, music, and the art of tease.  The highly trained dancers (that’s right, dancers, not striptease artists), will take you on a musical journey that will make you want to get up and dance.   Come enjoy this old burlesque style show that will set your holiday spirit on fire. Nov. 15, 22-23, 29-30, 2013 at 8:00 PM. This is a special Off The Wall Theater event, produced by Susie Dohmlo & Reid Gustin of RED City Live Entertainment.   Click here for tickets and information.

Robyne Parrish - Director of The Zero Hour Robyne Parrish, director of The Zero Hour, woke up this morning wondering if those reviews were real or if they were just a dream.  Robyne, we have news for you.  Those reviews were real! Here’s a quick recap of a few: “I give the cast and crew high marks for an emotionally moving and intellectually stimulating performance.” Rick D’Loss of The Carnegie Shul “The play was warm, compelling, provocative, very funny with some piercing sadness and exceedingly well done.” Maggie Forbes, Executive Director at Andrew Carnegie Free Library “I find it exhilarating to see theater whose artifice is transparent, as here… Quick costume changes take place on stage. The same person plays many roles. It’s a stunt, in a way, like watching the Cirque de Soleil of acting. But the level of acting here goes beyond virtuosity.”   Arlene Weiner of the Coal Hill Blog "Madeleine George's 2010 play, directed here by Robyne Parrish, moves qu

This is your last chance to catch The Zero Hour right here in Pittsburgh!  We welcome you to join us at our small, intimate theater where you will be delighted by our actors as they seamlessly transition both roles and costumes right before your eyes.  Every seat is a good seat, and the actors will transport you from your seat to a bedroom, a subway station, a therapist’s office and a bar with the help of the well-done sound effects, lighting and staging. To learn more about The Zero Hour, scroll through our recent blogs. There you’ll find a variety of pictures and synopsis’s. Click here for the latest review by Arlene Weiner of the Coal Hill Blog, where Arlene emphatically states, “It’s a stunt, in a way, like watching the Cirque de Soleil of acting. But the level of acting here goes beyond virtuosity. Cuenca and Griffith inhabit their roles, make them human—and, not incidentally, sympathetic.” The Zero Hour explores and questions honesty, love, what is authentic, what can and

Erika Cuenca and Daina Michelle Griffith – Photo by Heather Mull Earlier this week we posted the review by Rick D'Loss from The Congregation Ahavath Achim, Carnegie. Maggie Forbes, Executive Director at Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, also attended the opening night, and this is what she had to say in response to Rick’s blog: “I was blown away by the caliber of what I was calling the “Lesbians and Nazi’s on the No.7 train” play.”  “The play was warm, compelling, provocative, very funny with some piercing sadness and exceedingly well done.” Click here to read the full article and comments.   What will you have to say about the play?  Let us know on Twitter  and Facebook . Last Chance!    Buy Your Tickets Now.  The Zero Hour’s final nights are this Thursday, Friday & Saturday (November 7-9).  Come see two of Pittsburgh’s finest female actors, Erika Cuenca and Daina Michelle Griffith, directed by the brilliant Robyne Parrish (currently Artistic Dir

“It’s not often that we get a Holocaust themed play in Carnegie. I am probably understating the obvious; we probably have never had a Holocaust themed play in Carnegie!”  Erika Cuenca and Daina Michelle Griffith – Photo by Heather Mull That’s what Rick D’Loss of the The Carnegie Shul had to say about The Zero Hour.  But that’s not all Rick had to say.  Rick delved into the intricacies of the play, the struggles of how to make the Holocaust relevant to 7th graders, especially given that the writer is both a Jew and homosexual, and the challenges of describing the enormity of it all. Rick does a wonderful job capturing the essence of the play: the intertwining of living a lie, the tension that comes with living a lie and the resulting complications when he states  “I especially liked the intertwining of the “living a lie” theme as Rebecca describes a “closet” Jew living with false papers in Berlin, while Rebecca herself is hiding her true life from her mother.”   Rick goes on to

Daina Michelle Griffith - Photo by Heather Mull O, a chronically unemployed lover in a relationship with Rebecca, who is not out of the closet, will escort you through a range of emotions throughout the play. O will make you laugh .  Whether she’s prostrating herself asking for forgiveness, taking pictures of Rebecca just about everywhere, or demanding attention when Rebecca is on the phone with her mother, she will make you laugh. O will make you think .  In her own obstinate, childlike way, O demands to know why the full truth cannot be told.  Why is the whole Holocaust story not told to 7th graders?  Why can’t Rebecca tell her mother she is a lesbian? Why can we not all be honest? O will make you feel .  O will make you feel what it’s like to disappoint your lover, what it’s like to miss someone, and what it’s like to carry anger against those you love. Michelle Pilecki of The Pittsburgh City Paper had this to say about O and the play: “The real fun is that Griffith p