2025 Mainstage Shows set at South Park South Park Theatre launches into the holiday season with Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!), a co-production with Mon River Arts, along w…
By SHARON EBERSON Sherlock Holmes is the gift that keeps on giving to David Whalen and Andrew Paul, with another package about to be unwrapped for fans of both the timeless fictional detecti…
By SHARON EBERSON ENTREATY: The AMC movie chain plans to play a 30-second advisory before “Wicked: Part 1,” reminding moviegoers that “silence is golden”; in other words, no singin…
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company has announced three 2025 productions, including Two Trains Running, which will “be presented as part of a planned festival of August Wilson plays, ta…
Plus: GPAC Funds the Arts and PICT 2025 COMMENTARY You go away for a week, you could come back humming, What’d I Miss? Or, when it comes to Pittsburgh theater, you can check out What’s…
Mingsi Ma is currently a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater, in partnership with American Theatre magazine. This interview was conducted in Mandarin, and the quotes have…
City Theatre is getting decked out for the holidays with the second installment of the Jane Austen-inspired Pemberley trilogy, produced in association with the Carnegie Mellon University S…
Lindsay Anne Herring is currently a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater in partnership with American Theatre magazine. By LINDSAY ANNE HERRING During the crazed rush of perf…
By SHARON EBERSON “Because after all, everyone deserves one song …” That goes for the female serial killers of RealTime Arts’ true-crime concert musical Angelmakers, which returns st…
New Horizon Theater presents Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee, the story of six of the first African-American aviators in the United States Army Air Forces. Black Angels Over Tusk…
By SHARON EBERSON Laura Benanti never once said, “Hello, Pittsburgh!” Nor did she mention a sports team during her second show at the Greer Cabaret Monday night. Instead, the self-procla…
Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new speaker series Making Art Work kicks off five sessions on Monday with Mark Valdéz, artistic director of Minneapolis’ Mixed Blood Theatre, for a moderated…
For more performing arts scares and treats this spooky season, visit onStage Pittsburgh’s What’s On Stage, and check out VisitPittsburgh’s guide to Halloween events in Pittsburgh (it…
By SHARON EBERSON City Theatre has answered the question, “Where to begin?,” as it launches its 50th season this weekend, with the official opening of POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbas…
A new space dedicated to “performance, culture, conversation, community, and food” is coming to Wilkinsburg, in the Community Forge space that is home to Bricolage Production Company. Th…
Tamara Tunie, Tami Dixon and More Join Forces to Save a Stumbling Presidency City Theatre is getting ready to open its 50th season with an election-season farce, featuring a cast of formidab…
Evil Dead the Musical is on its way back for a fifth groovy, gory year at Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s West End Canopy. The cast for fall 2024 includes Brett Goodnack as Ash, a housewares …
The inaugural Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Icon Awards will be presented to Carol R. Brown, the Trust’s first president and CEO, philanthropist Teresa Heinz and sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, at T…
By SHARON EBERSON By the numbers, the Pittsburgh premiere of Bandstand: A New American Musical is the largest show ever mounted by Front Porch Theatricals. By the emotional breadth of the sh…
City Theatre and three regional partners have commissioned Lauren Gunderson, one of America’s most-produced playwrights, to adapt Little Women for a coast-to-coast launch. In partnership w…
Pittsburgh CLO has announced the extension of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, running now through September 29, 2024, at the Greer Cabaret Theater. The original PCLO cast of Dan DeLuca…
By CAMILLE AGIE A-listers such as Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington and the dozens of cast and crew members of the “Hamilton” tour have something in common when they work in Pittsburgh. …
Pittsburgh Public Theater has grown its team with “significant additions,” including Sarah Ashley Cain as Associate Artistic Director and Toby Guinn as its first Chief Development Office…
The distribution of arts and culture funding in the Greater Pittsburgh region is racially inequitable, according to a newly released research report from The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.…
By CAMILLE AGIE Imagine a universe in which Dr. Seuss’s imaginative whimsical world blends with Broadway star power. Beth Malone, recognized for her powerful roles in Fun Home (Tony nomine…