By Vanessa Reseland — Continuing Recital’s sponsored partnership with the New Hazlett Theater, we are presenting a series of editorially-independent previews and reviews of the 2022–23 Community Supported Art (CSA) Performance Series. …

By Vanessa Reseland — Kelly Trumbull is an actor, director, and collegiate theatre arts educator. With Morning Reckoning, she adds “playwright” to her multi-hyphenate status. A first-time playwright, Trumbull approaches her work with thoughtfulness, humanity, and a delightful sense of humor. Her upcoming play, the final show in the 2022/2023 CSA series at the…

By Vanessa Reseland In the wake of her Father’s passing, multi-talented theatre artist, Jasmine Roth, began writing. She wrote as a tool for healing. She explored what would happen if one could stop time and bring a loved one back to fulfill plans made in life. What if the fantasy…

By Vanessa Reseland — Continuing Recital’s sponsored partnership with the New Hazlett Theater, we are presenting a series of editorially-independent previews and reviews of the 2022–23 Community Supported Art (CSA) Performance Series. …

By Vanessa Reseland Artist Ys1 — Yusef Shelton Da First — is a true orator out of Homewood in Pittsburgh. I recently sat with him to discuss his upcoming hip-hop musical experience, Ignite, the first New Hazlett Theater CSA show of 2023. Each response to my questions flowed with the…

FKA twigs — CAPRISONGS (Young/Atlantic) Francis Plagne — The Refrain (Black Truffle) Paul Giger — ars moriendi (ECM) The A’s — Fruit (Psychic Hotline) The Smile — A Light for Attracting Attention (XL) Eiko Ishibashi — For McCoy (Black Truffle) Pedro The Lion — Havasu (Polyvinyl Records) Dewa Alit &…

By Vanessa Reseland and David Bernabo — Continuing Recital’s sponsored partnership with the New Hazlett Theater, we are presenting a series of editorially-independent previews and reviews of the 2022–23 Community Supported Art (CSA) Performance Series. Below is our review of Perdita by Nathan Wagner, a collaborative response from Vanessa Reseland and David Bernabo with guest panelists Eric…

Learn about the history of University of Pittsburgh’s Electronic Music Studio — Cut Pathways, a podcast developed by the Oral History Program at Carnegie Mellon University, debuts four new episodes from their third season, “Steel City Outsiders and the Institutional Avant-garde.” Check out the latest episode about the history of University of Pittsburgh’s Electronic Music Studio here: “The Buchla synthesizer experienced…

By Vanessa Reseland — High school can be a trying place under the best of circumstances. Despite the excitement of growing up, hormones and independent streaks often derail the innocent childhoods on which teens once coasted. In less protected communities and households, that naivete was lost before freshman year. With less supervision and more…