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Jun 2, 2025
“Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble:” Vigilance Theater Group’s ‘Mac Beth’ Is Equal Parts Shakespeare and Brat Summer
Mac Beth is the refreshing take on Shakespeare you didn’t know you needed. As a “Brat” flag triumphantly flies near the end of the play, it becomes clear that Vigilance Theater’s Mac Beth is the kickoff to Brat Summer 2.0.
Jun 1, 2025
Vigilance Theater Presents: Mac Beth-- What Sleeps Beneath
Without spoiling the brilliance of it I will only say that it is somehow more devastating, more shocking, and a sharper lens through which darkness, chaos, and conflict thrive. “Double double toil and trouble” is much, much scarier when a group of schoolgirls are taunting you, even if you are a king.
May 26, 2025
‘Mac Beth’ Reinvents ‘Macbeth’ for Teen Drama Queens
“They’re really bringing energy, enthusiasm and a lot of humor,” Collier said of the cast. “It’s Macbeth, you know how it’s going to end, but the road to get there over the course of the 90 minutes is often very funny … in areas where there is a place for genuine humor.”
Nov 17, 2024
It’s Time for Something Powerful—A Review of 4:48 Psychosis
Vigilance continues to push the envelope with their unique immersive experiences. Whether they’re presenting an original work or interpreting someone else’s, their influence is impossible to ignore. Doing what most other companies can’t or won’t do puts them in an incredible position to bring unparalleled productions to the Pittsburgh area.
Jul 25, 2024
In this immersive play, the audience can't "Hide" from family drama and a werewolf
Regardless, it’s best you come prepared because “Hide,” the new play produced by Vigilance Theater Group (https://www.vigilancetheater.com/) completely immerses its audience in its supernatural world.
Jul 25, 2024
If You Seek a Unique Show, Seek This Out—A Review of Hide
Vigilance is a theater company that passionately pushes the medium forward. They eschew the passivity that is pervasive in a lot of theatre, and instead, advocate for more demanding productions that share powerful messages, whether they be completely original works or wild interpretations of more familiar fare. Pacifying people with run-of-the-mill entertainment is easy. Crafting an experience that will be sure to stimulate and stick with them, not so much. But time and time again, Vigilance Theater Group puts on a show that does exactly that.
Sep 9, 2023
I’ll Take S’more of That - A Review of Campfire Stories
This production’s conceit, although simplistic, is brilliant as an immersive piece of theatre. Not only are there the performances to enjoy, but there’s also the olfactory nirvana from the marriage of seemingly boundless nature and a controlled blaze, the delicious taste of toasty treats, the occasional water droplet from the branches above, all soundtracked by crackling of firewood and the dulled chatter of animals heckling from the shadows. It is a combination of artistic forms and styles that simultaneously innovates and harkens back to tradition.
Apr 4, 2023
Not your high school ‘Crucible’: Vigilance Theater Group putting on new version of Arthur Miller classic
Chances are good that at some point along your educational journey, someone made you read Arthur Miller’s 1953 Salem witch trials play “The Crucible.” For Renee Rabenold, that foundational academic milestone occurred when she was a senior theater major at Point Park University.