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·May 11

Morning Reckoning is the Nostalgic Teeny Bopper Comedy Millennials Need Right Now

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. …

Boy Bands

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Morning Reckoning is the Nostalgic Teeny Bopper Comedy Millennials Need Right Now
Morning Reckoning is the Nostalgic Teeny Bopper Comedy Millennials Need Right Now
Boy Bands

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·Apr 13

Review: The Artful Composition of Jasmine Roth’s “Painting Lessons” Balances Realism and the Abstract

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. …

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Review: The Artful Composition of Jasmine Roth’s “Painting Lessons” Balances Realism and the…
Review: The Artful Composition of Jasmine Roth’s “Painting Lessons” Balances Realism and the…
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·Apr 7

90s Boy Bands Unlock Millennial Nostalgia in Kelly Trumbull’s Morning Reckoning

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…

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90s Boy Bands Unlock Millennial Nostalgia in Kelly Trumbull’s Morning Reckoning
90s Boy Bands Unlock Millennial Nostalgia in Kelly Trumbull’s Morning Reckoning
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·Mar 15

Jasmine Roth’s play Painting Lessons Stops Time to Explore the Surreality of Grief

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…

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Jasmine Roth’s play Painting Lessons Stops Time to Explore the Surreality of Grief
Jasmine Roth’s play Painting Lessons Stops Time to Explore the Surreality of Grief
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·Mar 6

Review: Ambition and Purpose are an Effective Match in YS1 Yusef Shelton Da First’s Hip-Hop Show “Ignite”

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. …

Da First

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Review: Ambition and Purpose are an Effective Match in YS1 Yusef Shelton Da First’s Hip-Hop Show…
Review: Ambition and Purpose are an Effective Match in YS1 Yusef Shelton Da First’s Hip-Hop Show…
Da First

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·Feb 1

Ys1 Yusef Shelton Da First Sparks Your Spiritual Side with Hip-Hop Experience “Ignite”

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…

Ys1

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Ys1 Yusef Shelton Da First Sparks Your Spiritual Side with Hip-Hop Experience “Ignite”
Ys1 Yusef Shelton Da First Sparks Your Spiritual Side with Hip-Hop Experience “Ignite”
Ys1

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·Dec 21, 2022

Top 24 Albums of 2022

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 &…

Fka Twigs

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Top 24 Albums of 2022
Top 24 Albums of 2022
Fka Twigs

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·Dec 20, 2022

Review: Nathan Wagner’s Perdita Focuses on Hope in the Wake of Loss

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…

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Review: Nathan Wagner’s Perdita Focuses on Hope in the Wake of Loss
Review: Nathan Wagner’s Perdita Focuses on Hope in the Wake of Loss
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·Nov 23, 2022

Cut Pathways Season 3!

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…

Modular Synth

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Cut Pathways Season 3!
Cut Pathways Season 3!
Modular Synth

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·Nov 16, 2022

Grief, Empathy, and Education: Nathan Wagner Calls Upon Shakespeare in His New Teen Tragicomedy

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…

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Grief, Empathy, and Education: Nathan Wagner Calls Upon Shakespeare in His New Teen Tragicomedy
Grief, Empathy, and Education: Nathan Wagner Calls Upon Shakespeare in His New Teen Tragicomedy
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