321 stories by "Sharon Eberson"
Suburban shuttles, childcare and family discounts are added to patron engagement programs By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO is shaking up how it does business for year No. 78, including a sum…
Lisa Velten Smith Executes a Demanding Role With Brio for Quantum Theatre By SHARON EBERSON Speaking truth to power is never easy, but when it comes in torrential waves, from a bawdy, bellig…
By SHARON EBERSON Just one more thing, Delana Flowers was saying, before our goodbyes. She had been discussing her return to Dinah: A musical revue, as Dinah Washington, who declared herself…
Pittsburgh CLO Concert With the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra is June 1, 2024 at the Benedum Center By SHARON EBERSON Twenty years after Jeff Goldblum romped as The Music Man for Pittsburgh CLO,…
By SHARON EBERSON Undoubtedly, there are some who will arrive at Pittsburgh Public Theater’s latest iteration of The Importance of Being Earnest with favorite interpretations. After all, O…
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever marry, I’ll try to forget the fact. – From “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde By SHARON EBERSON Director Jenny Koo…
Director Andrew William Smith and star Lisa Velten Smith discuss the Pittsburgh premiere and 2023-24 season finale By SHARON EBERSON Don’t be deceived by the title Scenes From an Execution…
Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 50th anniversary season in 2024-25 will include a six-show lineup packed with Pittsburgh premieres, a slate of offstage programming, and a big, full-circle fini…
By SHARON EBERSON Whether you love’em, hate ’em or judge each on its own merit, you can credit Mamma Mia! with paving the way to the jukebox musicals that have followed in the super trou…
Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique Bring Broadway, Ballet and ‘Fame’ to Their Work in Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON Catching up with Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique about their remarka…
By SHARON EBERSON History, no matter how traumatic, no matter how horrific, demands we bear witness, and, in the best of all worlds, we experience empathy, we fine-tune our humanity. We lear…
2024-25 Season Includes New Reading Series, ‘POTUS,’ Pemberley for the Holidays and Celebratory Events City Theatre is gearing up for its 50th season with the announcement of four of fiv…
By SHARON EBERSON I was treated to a link last weekend to see Sara Porkalob’s final Pittsburgh Public Theater performance of Dragon Lady live, on a screen, in the comfort of home. I had se…
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh CLO gather dozens of performers for a production that speaks to the heart By SHARON EBERSON It takes a balancing act of faith, talent and chutzpa…
Tomé Cousin directs and Etta Cox stars for barebones, in the Tony-nominated Dominique Morisseau play By SHARON EBERSON Tomé Cousin’s day launches as a professor of dance at Carnegie Mell…
‘Tevye is one of those roles that I’ve always felt I’m right for’ By SHARON EBERSON Tony Award-winning actor Shuler Hensley sounds a bit giddy on the phone, describing where he is: …
Compiled by SHARON EBERSON It’s time for curtains to rise on an annual rite of spring that begins in February: A comprehensive listing of high school musical theater productions throughout…
Tony-Nominated Play Introduces Brandon Foxworth to Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON Brandon Foxworth’s path to City Theatre and the lead role in Fat Ham was a matter of happenstance, plus a wh…
Front Porch Theatricals has announced casting for its 2024 summer musicals – A … My Name is Still Alice and Bandstand – with familiar faces taking the lead in shows making their loca…
Pittsburgh Public Theater will live stream the final four performances of current show Dragon Lady, through a partnership with the emerging nonprofit League of Live Stream Theater. In a firs…
By SHARON EBERSON Billy Hartung and a few of his Broadway friends are set to help Pittsburghers kick off your Sunday shoes, lose your blues, and everybody, cut footloose. It’s been 25 ye…
By SHARON EBERSON It is evident there was a divine plan from birth for Sara Porkalob. Deliver her into a family of strong women with irresistibly juicy stories to tell, and have her grow up …
By SHARON EBERSON Willie Dixon stands as tall in forging the foundation of American popular music as a certain “ten-dollar Founding Father” did in paving the foundation of our country. B…
Pittsburgh-based playwright Tammy Ryan has been named the inaugural recipient of The Boost, a new commission awarded to a woman, trans or nonbinary playwright over the age of 40, for a play …
“The blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits.” – Willie Dixon By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh actor Sam Lothard will channel blues pioneer Willie Dixon in the premiere productio…
