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After managing to provide live performances to small audiences (with free live streams to larger ones) during the difficult days of the pandemic, Pittsburgh Opera has announced more…
Opening This Week The Current War Presented by Quantum Theatre at Westinghouse Park, Pittsburgh PA Quantum Theatre announces the return to live performance with The Current War, by Micha…
After such a long pandemic induced intermission, live in-person performances are roaring back this holiday week, starting with Little Lake Theatre’s season opener, SHIRLEY VALENTINE a…
Pittsburgh, PA ∙ May 21, 2021 – Pittsburgh CLO announced today that Van Kaplan, CEO, will be retiring from his position as the head of the 75-year-old arts organization in September 2021…
Dr. Hollyhood and Jon Quest, co-creators of Quest and the Girl with the Yellow Jacket, talk with Kristin Helfrich, New Hazlett Theater’s Director of Programming, about the process of combi…
The lead story this week is not what’s on, but what won’t be on this summer. Front Porch Theatricals announced the cancellation of their summer season since current guidance from both he…
Pittsburgh Opera Saturday evening gave the first of six performances of Handel’s Semele, a company first, and the baroque opera will bring to an end a season that’s been full of first…
Choreolab by the Conservatory Dance Company at Point Park University, May 12 – 16. Conservatory dance students and faculty collaborate in the choreographic process to create fresh, incred…
The return to Broadway in Pittsburgh is led by The Band’s Visit; the last Broadway event to play the Benedum Center in March 2020 The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced today that The Ba…
Checkout some of what’s happening in the greater Pittsburgh theatre scene this week. Want your company’s shows to be listed here, drop us the info and pictures at info@pghintheround.com …
Reviewed by Jessica Neu This past weekend, Cranberry’s Comtra Theater hosted their first musical in over a year. Batavia Musical Theater, located in Mars, PA, performed the Lion King Jr.…
By Hallie Donner (ATC provided press release) Something big is happening at Alumni Theatre Company on Saturday, May 8th! A cast of ATC Young Artists will fearlessly take the stage and perf…
Sunsum is Spirit is an immersive experience that combines original music with traditional and contemporary African dance, movement and storytelling. This surrealist performance captures a li…
Happy Birthday, Will! Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks presents a whole lot of Will for the 457th celebration! It’s WEEK OF WILL: IN THE WORKS. Read on for the season ann…
Photo: Music Director Manfred Honeck leads the PSO in “Carmen & Beethoven,” an inventive program of stellar works. Photo credit: Julie Goetz This concert was recorded live at Heinz H…
As Pittsburgh begins to gear up for the reopening of our beloved theaters and safely welcome guests back, the Pittsburg Cultural Trust has announced the first theaters or performing arts v…
Pittsburgh CLO today announced it will bring Broadway back to the ‘Burgh this summer at Heinz Field in a first-ever partnership with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The two-show “Summer Under t…
When you’re a Greaser, you’re a Greaser all the way. It may not have the same ring to it as the iconic lyric I’m repurposing here, but it’s no doubt the credo for the characters i…
Reviewed by Ralph Leary As every new parent knows, babies don’t come with an owner’s manual. Books stores are filled with shelves of advice and guidance, and thousands of sites are jus…
By Eva Phillips Obsession and compulsion are curious things. Often, there is an ascetic sterility that’s assumed—fastidiously organizing all the marginalia of one’s existence so nothin…
By Eva Phillips Dungeons and Dragons (D&D, colloquially) has achieved and maintained a level of popularity, notoriety and infamy since its creation in 1974 that is just as grandiose as t…
By Cayleigh Boniger With the resounding success of the U.S. Women’s soccer team and their dramatic win of the World Cup, Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan have become household names. But wh…
By Brian Pope Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The patriarch of a white (usually Southern) family dies. This tragic inevitability sets his family (primarily his adult children) on …
I don’t believe there was a more viscerally tempestuous and discombobulated time in my young life than when I was fully immersed in team sports. Questionably coordinated and ravaged by …
