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By SHARON EBERSON It won’t be long before one of the busiest corners of the Pittsburgh Cultural District is fully illuminated again, with present technology lighting the way to the past. P…
City Theatre has announced the six winning writers whose one-act plays will be presented at the 24th annual Young Playwrights Festival in October. The winning entries in the regional playwri…
Three administrators have been appointed to integral positions by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, with the anticipation that they will “play instrumental roles in advan…
he 14th annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards, better known as the Jimmy Awards, streamed live Monday night from Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre, home of The Lion King. (A s…
Pittsburgh Musical Theater gets off to a “groovy” start and pulls in with a “million dollar” finish in the just-announced 2023-24 season. The return of Evil Dead the Musical kicks th…
“New name. New Show. Same panda. 🐼” RealTime Arts has replaced RealTime Interventions as the name of the “original, community-fueled theater,” the brainchild of Rusty Thelin and M…
The schedule includes Catch Me If You Can, Freaky Friday, Footloose, and Titanic Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center on Thursday announced its eight-show, 2023-24 subscription series, kickin…
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company’s production of 12:52 The Mike Webster Story premieres as part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival on Friday, before moving into the company’s Hill D…
The final two shows of barebones productions’ 20th season will be The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp (August 11-26) and David Mamet’s American Buffalo (November-December 2023). The Sound Insi…
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center is celebrated the one-year anniversary of August Wilson: The Writer’s Landscape on May 7th, in a big way. The permanent exhibition that e…
Nearly 100 elementary students from Pittsburgh will have the opportunity to sing and dance on the Byham Theater stage as the result of a grant awarded to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s ed…
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council didn’t have to go far from home to find the second CEO in the organization’s history. Patrick Fisher, who most recently served as executive director…
Pittsburgh CLO brings the stage and screen star to the Playhouse with ‘Being Alive Tour’ By SHARON EBERSON Bet you didn’t know that Mandy Patinkin makes his living as a mailman. He p…
City Theatre’s New Play Fest includes Screening of ‘Feeding the Dragon’ doc; Tami Dixon Revisiting ‘South Side Stories’; Martin Giles’ Solo Show and More City Theatre’s 2023 Mo…
New Horizon Theater presents Russell Thompkins Jr. and the New Stylistics May 6 at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty. Thompkins’ falsetto is recognizable as the original lead sin…
The free featured concerts that are a highlight of the 10-day Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 2-11 in the Pittsburgh Cultural District, have been announced by the Pittsburgh Cul…
The August Wilson New Voices Competition crowned its 2023 top three in Pittsburgh Monday night at the O’Reilly Theater. The city-wide monologue contest is open to all Pittsburgh high sch…
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company continues its 20th anniversary season with its second premiere in a row. Next up at the newly anointed Madison Arts Center in the Hill District is Pyra…
By MARIA SCIULLO Everything about Little Lake Theatre is about family. Currently mounting its 75th season at the Canonsburg, Washington County barn across the bridge, the spirit of founder W…
While the Greer Cabaret Theater makeover is ongoing, the Trust Cabaret Series continues tonight at the O’Reilly Theater with award-winning singer Carole J. Bufford. In The New York Times,…
‘A Christmas Story’ Returns for the Holidays Pittsburgh Public Theatre has announced three shows for the 2023-24 season, opening September 19 with the world-premiere production Billy Str…
The weather has given us only hints of spring, but here’s some news to warm you up. The 19th season of Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks gets under way next month with the 10th annual We…
The in-demand concert musical Six is providing thrills at the Benedum Center.
Newcomers include Mrs. Doubtfire and Girl From the North Country, plus revivals of The Wiz, Company and more By SHARON EBERSON And the answers are … For those of us who followed and solv…
The contemporary play company also boasts a musical collaboration with Pittsburgh CLO, plus an Andy Warhol trip, the post-Pride Benets and more By SHARON EBERSON Fat Ham, the 2022 Pulitzer P…