City Theatre has completed its 2015-16 season schedule with Pittsburgh premieres and one world premiere, the Cold War drama "Some Brighter Distance" by Keith Reddin.
A troubled woman and a man in trouble meet in a bar and head back to her place for let's-forget-our-troubles sex … and so begins an alcohol-fueled walk on the wild side.
The nominees for the 25th Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater were announced this morning. The annual awards ceremony for participating Allegheny County schools w…
You can't list just the highlights when a show is a parade of just that, so let me tell you about "Broadway Showstoppers," start to finish.
PICT Classic Theatre's "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" " or to the point, "living in Pittsburgh," as director Alan Stanford said in his opening-night remarks Saturday --…
Broadway-bound Telly Leung is making a Pittsburgh stop along the way for "Broadway Showstoppers," the first time the Trust Cabaret will feature four performers in one series show.
"An American in Paris," the new musical co-produced by Pittsburgh CLO leader Van Kaplan, and "Fun Home" led the way with 12 Tony Award nominations each, one ahead of "Something Rotten!,…
Douglas Levine had of course heard of Jacques Brel and knew some of his songs, but "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" was new to the music man of local theater when he…
"Hamilton" and "An American in Paris" were 1-2 in nominations for the 2014-15 Drama Desk Awards, announced Thursday afternoon, with 13 and 12 respectively. While those sh…
The musical "Peter Pan" is having a moment -- several, actually -- mostly on the screen, so you have to crow when a stage production comes along to remind us of the first time Peter makes hi…
Peter Pan is flying high these days, from the live musical watched by millions on television to Broadway's "Finding Neverland" to the star-packed October film "Pan," …
April 27 would have been the 70th birthday of August Wilson, who died nearly 10 years ago on Oct. 2, 2005. The celebrated Pittsburgh playwright and chronicler of the African-American experie…
Van Kaplan, executive producer of Pittsburgh CLO, was facing his first Broadway opening as a lead producer when he sat down to discuss "An American in Paris," the new musical inspi…
NEW YORK " So this is the view from the other side, standing onstage at Broadway's century-old Palace Theatre. Downstage center, alone except for crew members and a few ogling visitors, stan…
NEW YORK " Every so often a gem the likes of "An American in Paris" is brought from screen to stage, and for a moment you can stop asking why so many movies are made into musicals. …
Living in Las Vegas and working as a freelance director on the West Coast hasn't changed Andrew Paul much. The founder of Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre and now Kinetic Theatre here …
Teagle F. Bougere, so impressive in the one man tour-de-force "An Iliad" last year, was an obvious choice to climb the theatrical mountain that is "Othello." But when Pittsburgh Public Theat…
Karla Boos and Barbara Luderowski think so far out of the box, they are more inclined to first reimagine the box's square shape, then see just how far they can get from it.
"Dirty Dancing" the stage musical gets off on the right foot, first with a silhouette foreshadowing a familiar romantic team, then with dance pairs getting down and dirty to the song "This M…
Beautiful to gaze upon and a delight to revisit, this latest touring version of "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" is a reminder that the animation giant's leap to live theater was launched wit…
It took 25 years and a Bruce Springsteen concert for screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein to adapt "Dirty Dancing" into a live musical. Now, 10 years old and a success from Australia to Europe, th…
World premieres are playing at two of Pittsburgh's most intimate venues: the family drama "Endless Lawns" and the bio-musical "Dinah," about Queen of the Blues Dinah Washington.
Alan Stanford's "summer vacation" from his duties as head of PICT Classical Theatre came early this year, and it wasn't much of a vacation. He temporarily rejoined his former home, the Gate …
The Rep, Point Park University's professional theater company, closes its 2014-15 season with the world premiere of Pittsburgh playwright Anthony McKay's "Endless Lawns."