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CP Staff, Pittsburgh City Paper
Pittsburgh City Guide 2018
Midnight Radio at Downtown's Bricolage theater is live theater at its best.
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Tiffany Raymond, Pittsburgh in the Round
Midnight Radio: Frankenstein
"Frankenstein is a dark story, but the visuals and old-fashioned sound effects offer a counterbalance that brings lightness to the story and keeps it relevant."
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Ted Hoover, Pittsburgh Current
Bricolage Midnight Radio’s Frankenstein Is True To Mary Shelley’s Vision
"Jefferey Carpenter handily directs an agile cast of top-notch performers. Brett Goodnack plays Victor Frankenstein and, as he did so remarkably with Bricolage’s 1984, creates a fully realized and tortured character using just his voice. In that he’s joined by Cotter Smith as The Creature."
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Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Radio twist brings 'A Christmas Story' to life on stage
The result, as “Midnight Radio” fans know, is guaranteed fun. Bricolage has made the genre its own (maybe even invented it) and has polished it to a happy sheen.
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Michelle Pilecki, Pittsburgh City Paper
A radio-style adaptation of the beloved film is a delight
Wait till you see/hear the celebration of the Major Award, and the twisted-carol version of the jingle for the “show’s sponsor,” Meatloaf and Cabbage.
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Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi, PGH in the Round
Midnight Radio A Christmas Story
A complimentary “Happy Half-Hour” warmed bellies and spirits as guests interacted with holiday-themed activities (I couldn’t pass up the giant present selfie station!) pulled from threads woven through the show we were all about to enjoy.
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Bill O’Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper
Short List: Dec. 7 - 14
You knew it was coming: Midnight Radio, the Bricolage Production Company series that performs old-school radio plays live, follows its holiday stagings of It’s A Wonderful Life (2014) and Yinz’r Scrooged (2015) with A Christmas Story.
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Gwendolyn Kiste, Pittsburgh City Paper
Midnight Radio’s Holiday Spectacular! at Bricolage
"Performed in the style of a 1940s radio program, this Bricolage production is a delightful nod to holiday mainstays while including plenty of local flair and Pittsburgh in-jokes."
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Claire DeMarco, Burgh Vivant
A Hoot of a Holiday show – a review of “Holiday Spectacular”
"This ensemble performs seamlessly, almost effortlessly — transitioning from one character to another, developing different accents and ages, creating different sound effects with ordinary props as they guide us through an evening of fun and satire – all with a Christmas theme."
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Claire Juozitis, Pittsburgh in the Round
5 Holiday Shows You Don't Wanna Miss
"Holiday radio programs have been a nostalgic staple in this country ever since kids were decoding crummy commercials for Ovaltine in the 40’s. Bricolage Production Company continues their popular series, Midnight Radio, to bring this beloved Christmas entertainment to life!"
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CP Staff, Pittsburgh City Paper
Short List: Dec. 1-7
"Midnight Radio’s Holiday Spectacular returns, with its wry take on 1940s-style radio"
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Kellie Gormly, Pittsburgh in the Round
Midnight Radio's Holiday Spectacular
"Structured like a 1940s radio broadcast with commercial parodies and music, the performers do zany skits before the audience."
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Sharon Eberson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Bricolage's 'Midnight Radio' invites you to get zombified
"Bricolage's twist adds more Pittsburgh flavor, humor and commercial spoofs to "feast on your funny bones as yinz laugh your brains aht."
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Michelle Pilecki, Pittsburgh City Paper
Night of the Living Dead N’at at Bricolage, a parody of the zombie classic delivers
"Cheesy, camp, funny and fast. Midnight Radio is a brilliant concept, and Bricolage Production Co.’s current edition, Midnight Radio: Night of the Living Dead N’at, delivers."
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Claire Juotzitis, Pittsburgh in the Round
Midnight Radio's Night of the Living Dead N’at
"You don’t miss a full set or costumes, and you come to appreciate the true skill in voice acting. This show had us in stitches, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a few folks decided to rise from the dead just to see it."
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CP Staff, Pittsburgh City Paper
Bricolage re-animates the Living Dead
"Bricolage Production Company blends a 1968 movie with 1940s radio techniques to spoof local zombie culture."
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Michael Buzzelli, Burgh Vivant
Dead Man’s Party – a review of “Night of the Living Dead N’at”
“Night of the Living Dead N’at” is a spooky, yet humorous take on the nearly fifty-year old film, “Night of the Living Dead,” with scenes from the movie played on a big screen behind the actors "
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Jennifer Baron, NEXTpittsburgh
12 Pittsburgh events not to miss in October
"Bricolage is breathing new life—and death—into the cinematic classic, updating it with a raucous yinzer twist. Bricolage’s longtime fan favorite Midnight Radio Series returns to dish out a comedy-laden revamping of the flick complete with a contemporary “yinzerized” script adapted by the company’s producing artistic director, Tami Dixon. Paying homage to the Godfather of Zombies, the spine-tingling show will be augmented by the eerie live music of classical rock powerhouse Cello Fury."
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Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
'Yinz'r Scrooged' puts Pittsburgh touch on Dickens' classic
“Midnight Radio does mimic the format of a 1940s radio show, where script-holding actors perform live while simultaneously generating sound effects and delivering jokey commercials. Dixon and Turich's adaptation promises parody and comedy without minimizing Dickens' concerns about poverty, class and the public's indifference to the misery around”
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Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stage review: Bricolage gives Pittsburgh twist to classic 'Christmas Carol'
“This Midnight Radio adaptation by Tami Dixon, staged by Bricolage and directed by Sam Turich, purports to be a parody, but actually it’s pretty close to the real thing, albeit Pittsburgh-ized with local names, places, accents and jokes. Strip away those comic elaborations and you have a condensed but otherwise true-to-the-heart conversion story of the unhappy old miser, trapped in his self-defeating greed, along with a forceful version of Dickens’ denunciation of the ravages of the industrial revolution”
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Elvira DiPaolo-Hoff, Pittsburgh Magazine
Pittsburgh’s Best Cultural Events of November
“Midnight Radio series: an adaptation of George Orwell’s eerie masterpiece 1984, in which Big Brother always is watching.”
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Jennifer Baron, NEXTpittsburgh
1984 Redux: Bricolage’s Midnight Radio Season 7
“Get set to be transported to Airstrip One in Oceania for a surreal saga of war, government surveillance and dictatorship. Using the age-old art of radio to bring Orwell’s seminal science fiction book to life in eerie new ways, the chilling production will take the form of a classic 1940s radio broadcast with patrons playing the role of the live studio audience.”
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Jen Saffron, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Community Voices
Forget Zombies. This is about Mind Control
"Currently in the middle of mounting George Orwell’s 1984 in Bricolage’s signature Midnight Radio format, the dystopian story was recently mirrored by a form of um, dystopian marketing – if there wasn’t such a thing before, there is, now! If taking to the streets with immersive theater is where it’s at, then why not do the same with promotions?"