off the WALL productions at Carnegie Stage A Pittsburgh Theater

Purchase one of our season packages  and enjoy  four plays for the price of three. In addition, receive discount on other Carnegie Stage events. off the WALL productions has once again put together a diverse lineup for the 2016-17 Pittsburgh Theater Season. For our 10th season, you can expect a variety like never before. Our acting company continues to address challenging topics, using various theater techniques. Not only will this year’s selections bring about a wide range of emotions, sometimes resulting in laughter, other times tears; they’ll also bring about a better awareness and understanding of what others experience and perhaps add a new perspective to all our lives. Click here for our Season brochure Packages/Discounts – click here Ticketing Links: Opening Night Regular Run    Super Saver

Pittsburgh’s drinking troupe with a sketch comedy problem!   Matt Butoyak, Nathan Bell, Heidi Nagle, Tyson Schrader, Monica Stephenson    June 17 & 18 @ 8:00 pm, June 19 @ 2:00 pm $ 10.00 in advance ($ 15.00 at door) .   BUY TICKETS HERE As someone once so eloquently put it,  “WE’LL DO IT LIVE! F#@K IT! WE’LL DO IT LIVE! I CAN – I’LL WRITE IT AND WE’LL DO IT LIVE! F#@KIN THING SUCKS!” We’ve done live sketch comedy before, in ways that even Bill O’Reilly couldn’t imagine. Conspiracy theorist weathermen, jilted lovers at the gates of heaven, sex toys, celebrity nudes, lesbian weddings, and awkward teens. It has all been done and seen before. Until now. Now, The Harvey Wallbangers get lucky with five, and we promise you that this show will be, by far, the most recent. But either way, we're doing it live.   The Harvey WALLbangers at Carnegie Stage A Pittsburgh Theater operated by The Off The Wall Charitable Trust

Linda Haston -  Photo by Heather Mull When Linda Haston, star of Mother Lode , a new play written by Virginia Wall Gruenert, first acted in the show in 2013, her feelings about her mother were very close to the surface. Her mother had passed away in 2011, and she describes still being very raw. “The first time we did this show it was more of a catharsis,” she said. “I was still fresh from her death, reeling from everything that we went through.” Haston describes that she felt unable to give the play the space that it needed, and that she was having trouble separating her performance from the complicated issues she was still dealing with regarding her complicated relationship with her mother. “I suggested that we do it again, rewritten, and I was much more able to get into it.” For Haston, the passage of the three years between the productions had allowed her to come to terms with some of the issues that had been holding her back before. The portrayal of her mother ...