Last Chance Weekend: Only 2 Performances Left

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 can’t be said, and the impact that secrets can have on the mind.  It will make you laugh.  It will make you feel.  It will make you think.  I’ll leave you with this quote by Oscar Wilde as to how the theater relates to a human being:

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” 

The Zero Hour:  
Written by: Madeleine George
Directed by: Robyne Parrish
Starring: Erika Cuenca, Daina Michelle Griffith, John Steffenauer

Playing this Friday and Saturday.  Limited Seating.  Click here for Tickets.

Daina Michelle Griffith - Photo by Heather Mull

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