A Set to Behold!

Ingrid Sonnichsen and Weston Blakesley
– photo by Heather Mull
Off the Wall Theater was fortunate to have Tony Ferrieri create our current set. Besides being named Designer of the Year by the Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tony has 35 years’ experience with City Theatre.

So what can you expect when you enter through the front door of our theater? More doors! How many doors do you think Tony worked into this intricate set? 10, 20, 30, 50?  Keep going. We’re over halfway to the final count, but not quite there yet!  Keep reading for the answer.

If you’re wondering why the focus on doors, you’ll catch yourself chuckling when you hear the line “There used to be doors everywhere. I’ve forgotten what doors look like.”

A Feminine Ending, by Sarah Treem, is the story of a female composer trying to make it in a man’s world. As she works to advance her career as a female composer, it seems as there are no open doors; that all possible doors to her dreams are simply shut.

You can behold this marvelous set and see this bittersweet comedy at our theater through March 15, 2014. So how many doors are there? 80 to be exact!


A Feminine Ending
Written by Sarah Treem.  Directed by: Matt M. Morrow
Playing through March 15, 2014

Starring: Erika Cuenca, Ingrid Sonnichsen, Andrew Wind,
Shaun Cameron Hall, and Weston Blakesley

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About Tony Ferrieri (Scenic Designer): Awards and milestones include 35 years with City Theatre, New Works Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, “Designer of the Year” by Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Frankel Award,” “Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement,” “Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award,” features in Live Design and Stage Directions, and over 500 designs.  Recent designs include: Judge Jackie Justice -Trials of Love, Side by Side (CLO Cabaret), The Mountaintop, South Side Stories, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Charles Ives Take Me Home, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (City Theatre), Parlour Song, Mneumonic (Quantum Theatre). Other credits include designs for Milieu Theatrics NY, Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Carrnivale Theatrics, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Emelin Theatre, Northlight Theatre, barebones productions, Madison Rep, TheatreWorks, 1812 Productions, Playhouse Rep, Playhouse Conservatory, Tuesday Musical Club, Theatre at Hartwood, Gargaro Productions, Physical Theatre Project, Spur of the Moment Theatre, Chatham College, University of Pittsburgh, Development Dimensions International, Saltworks and Unseam’d.  Tony wishes to express his appreciation to all those who made this production possible.


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