Traditionally, summer is the season of seaside holidays, sun and fun, baseball, barbecues, and on a less celebratory note, CONSTRUCTION. This summer the Bobcat Players have fallen prey to the construction blues as our theater, the Ed Schaughency, will undergo a very necessary overhaul. Consequently, our show scheduled for July, One Man, Two Guvnors, will now be moving to our 2020 season. It is certain to be a stellar addition to a new slate of plays that we are just now beginning to consider. In the meantime, the Bobcat Players are not content to rest on past laurels this year. Although our theater space will be dark, we will be busy with our return to the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. We
As Mother's Day approaches and we celebrate the women around us, we thought it was the perfect time to showcase our all-female team of directors for the 2019 season. As you may recall, Jessica Patterson-Galayda directed our season opener, Enchanted April. Barbara Burgess-Lefebvre will direct Red Herring in September and Artistic Director Patti Ross will direct A Streetcar Named Desire in November. Lora Oxenreiter was scheduled to direct One Man, Two Guvnors this summer, but due to scheduling conflicts, the show will be postponed until next season (more on that in a later entry). Last month, I was fortunate enough to question these four talented women about the lessons they have learned as di
