Opinion by SHARON EBERSON & GEORGE HOOVER As 2024 comes to a close, here are a few thoughts for 2025. 10: Our loyal readers are cherished, and newbies are always welcome. 9: Here’s h…
By SHARON EBERSON Little Lake Theatre is ready to ring in its 77th season in 2025 with good news not often heard these days. The Washington County company that bills itself as “the region…
By SHARON EBERSON Award-winning director, author and educator Mel Shapiro, who headed the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and began his professional directing career at the Pittsburgh Playho…
By SHARON EBERSON It’s been a bumpy road to get to the best-of list, with a forecast of potholes and promise for the foreseeable future. So fasten your seatbelts, and let’s go. If achi…
By SHARON EBERSON To begin with, descending into the depths of the Stephen Foster Memorial, I was immediately transported into the combined worlds of Dickens and Doyle. With immersive stagin…
Nearly one-quarter of artists who filled out the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s 2024 Artist Community Survey said they are earning less than $15,000 annually, indicating a poverty rate …
By SHARON EBERSON Head to Google, and you will find tens of thousands of folks asking the burning question, “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” Bricolage Productions, back in the Midnight R…
Emma Diehl is a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater, in partnership with American Theatre magazine. By EMMA DIEHL Ever wonder if the Grinch is well-endowed? Pittsbur…
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 …