A Dark Day for Pittsburgh Professional Theater: All Staff Members of Pittsburgh Public Theater Receive Same-Day Layoff Notices All staff members of Pittsburgh Public Theater were laid off e…
By SHARON EBERSON The raw and raunchy, punk-glam, title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Pittsburgh’s Treasure Treasure are a match so obviously made for each other, sparks fly from t…
Nominees for the The Henry Mancini Awards, celebrating outstanding student achievement in high school musical theater in Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, and Mercer counties, have been announced, a…
With news about Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the Theater Factory on the move, new show announcements by barebones and Kinetic theaters, Cre8Dance 2026, a cancellation by Pittsburgh Playwrights…
The 2026 nominees for Pittsburgh CLO’s Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater are here! onStage Pittsburgh has the full list of 35th annual awards ceremony and sho…
Carl Kurlander led a University of Pittsburgh crew to Vincenza, Italy, in 2024, to document the first production of August Wilson's "Jitney" in Italian. With that production arriving in Pitt…
The 67th annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, has announced this year’s full performance lineup as it readies to make a splash in i…
onSTAGE PITTSBURGH WEEKLY CALL BOARD Stephen Flaherty to receive the Richard Rodgers Award, presented at the Pittsburgh CLO 80th Anniversary Gala in June! MORE MUST-SEE PITTSBURGH for April…
The Impulse Festival, new this spring from Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for New Work, includes among its in-development offerings a musical collaboration with Pittsburgh CLO, and a …
Call Board for April 18: With news on off the WALL's finale and Carnegie Stage, and casting news from Prime Stage, Front Porch Theatricals, and independent Sixty-Nine—Seventy.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Manfred Honeck, will embark on a three-week 2026 European Tour, performing 13 concerts across six countries and nine cities, including tw…
Virginia Wall Gruenert, Ericka Cuenca and Ingrid Sonnichsen Reunite for company’s finale at Carnegie Stage By SHARON EBERSON Seated in a cozy corner of the Carnegie Stage lobby, three wome…
With news on Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Park celebrating the Bard’s birthday, independent productions ‘Shakespeare R&J’ and ‘Hamlet: The Bad Quarto,’ Rage of the Stage Play…
What Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre will be reading in May: May 16-17: A fundraiser and staged reading of "A Winter's Tale." May 19, 21, 23 & 24: 4th annual Bards From the Bur…
Theater is an art form that continues to expand humanity's understanding of reality through many different formats. We’ve seen the changes that theater has gone through and continues to do…
With news on City Theatre / Second City, Kelley Strayhorn’s Fresh Works, Attack Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and the 2026 Golden Quills, ðŸŽÂ ICYMI from oSP: We’re Off to See  
At age 23, costume designer, wardrobe supervisor and entrepreneur Dylan A. Blussick’s resume reads like an accomplished retiree’s. The well-traveled Washington County native boasts exten…
The reasons to flock to see Water for Elephants are not your typical musical theater must-haves. They include thrilling circus artistry and innovative puppetry, and, for those in the know, e…
By L.E. McCULLOUGH When singer Lilly Abreu and filmmaker Andrés Tapia-Urzua began contemplating how to devise a transformative multimedia music-and-film event, two core elements dominated t…
Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University has revealed key plans for the 2026-2027 season, including workshopping and premiering a new musical, and the return of legacy companies Playhou…
"Water For Elephants: The Musical," coming to the Benedum Center March 31-April 5, is purposefully, unapologetically theatrical. The show that takes its inspiration from the 2006 novel by S…
With news on JAMIE deROY, PITTSBURGH CLO, RIVER CITY BRASS BAND, PITT STAGES, PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE, PITTSBURGH OPERA’S SHANNON CROWLEY, PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA, STRAND THEATRE, TRUS…
With news on the Pittsburgh Opera Fashion Show, PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh, CSA Off the Page, Westmoreland ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Second City at City Theatre … ðŸŽÂ IN THE NEWS: ðŸ…
By SHARON EBERSON High winds and power outages this past weekend ushered in theater openings featuring provocative spins on hot-button issues, told with powerful performances. From uproari…
PITTSBURGH POWER OUTAGE ZAPS OPENING NIGHT OF CITY THEATRE'S "EUREKA DAY" First there was light, and there was none. And then there was light again. And then none. And then it was light aga…