By SHARON EBERSON With the season-opening rolling premiere of Refugee Rhapsody, the 30-year evolution of PICT is firmly in the Elizabeth Elias Huffman Era. What started as Pittsburgh Irish &…
By SHARON EBERSON As In Clay readies its Pittsburgh debut at City Theatre, its London-based creators mused about it finding a fandom in China, before being introduced in the USA. “It’s s…
There likely will be changes ahead for Quantum Theatre, when Katie Brook takes the helm as Artistic Director, but one thing that won't change: "It's safe to say that we're going to continue …
Mandy Gonzalez, the original Nina in the Tony Award-winning In the Heights, possesses a genre-defying voice that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to gush that she is "one of the greatest singers …
By SHARON EBERSON Nicholas Perez-Hoop‘s tenure as Artistic Producer of City Theatre had only just begun as he was quizzed about what comes next — the overall theme of the season, and a t…
"RENT," the smash hit rock musical that launched Sewickley native PETER MATTHEW SMITH to Broadway, brings him home later this month, to direct the show for the second time in his hometown. W…
By SHARON EBERSON The new name is here — Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh — and with it, the hope for a fresh start and the creation of a sustainable, year-round Downtown resident theate…
By SHARON EBERSON a.k. payne sets the stage for their new play with a voiceover about the 2019 study that revealed Black women in Pittsburgh experience poverty at rates higher than in 85% of…
Kiesha Lalama’s vision as the head of Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University is building for the future by staying relevant in the present, reviving cherished parts from the past, a…
The world premiere of the award-winning playwright a.k. payne's "BURNBABYBURN! the american dream" is a co-production of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company and the August Wilson House. I…
ROGUE ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH'S "ASSASSINS" FEATURES KILLER CAST The production of "Assassins" now at the Greer Cabaret fires on all cylinders in its choice of cast, a group of vocally gifte…
'RENT' AT THE GREER The Greer Cabaret continues asthe Downtown place to be for locally produced musical revivals. Coming up in September: BDE Productions rents the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust…
Michael McKelvey's return to Pittsburgh includes producing and directing musicals with Pittsburgh theater artists, starting with "Assassins," the Sondheim-Weidman show with Carnegie Mellon r…
FRONT PORCH GETS TO THE HEART AND SOUL OF 'COME FROM AWAY' Front Porch Theatricals’ second summer season offering is the first locally produced version of the 2017 Tony Award-nominated mu…
With news about ... PBT receives $1 million grant; PSO Passport unveiled; The Next Act, and The Next ...; naming the merged Pittsburgh Public & Pittsburgh CLO; Squonk's Joy Machine; Dall…
TALKING "COME FROM AWAY" WITH LISA ANN GOLDSMITH AND DREW LEIGH WILLIAMS Lisa Ann Goldsmith was “a plane person” on September 11, 2001, bound from Ohio for her home in New York. Drew Le…
By SHARON EBERSON Exquisitely presented and performed by an illustrious cast, Kinetic Theatre’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd invites everyone, even those who arrive knowing the “who” in…
A CLASSIC AGATHA CHRISTIE WHODUNIT IN CARNEGIE Sam Tsoutsouvas portrays Hercule Poirot in Kinetic Theatre's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."
MARK FLEISCHER AND PITTSBURGH CLO EXIT “It's been an honor to work here. I take a lot of pride in what we've done, and the people I've worked with, the staff, the donors, the crew, but I …
FORGING AHEAD: NEW HAZLETT THEATER REBRANDS FOR THE FUTURE The New Hazlett Theater has appointed Melissa Cardello-Linton as the first Artistic Director in its 20-year history, in conjunctio…
A CHAT WITH "SUFFS" TONY-NOMINATED DIRECTOR LEIGH SILVERMAN The graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s BFA Directing and MFA Playwriting programs, and an intern for Pittsburgh CLO in 1994 — “W…
Six things to know about the "Suffs" National Tour, presented by Pittsburgh CLO as the Benedum Center July 21-26, 2026.
"THE TEMPEST" DELIVERS QUANTUM MAGIC TO CARRIE FURNACES An event delayed, and delayed, and delayed again serves to build anticipation, so it was with an exhale of relief and exhilaration th…
Carnegie-based community theater Stage 62 is returning to the Greer Cabaret for the second straight summer, opening the musical Company this week. The initial move from their home at the And…
ELECTRIFYING "DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA" As Roberta and Danny, Shannon Donovan and Michael Patrick Trimm provide enough sustained, electrifying performances and raw passion provide enough…