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…
By SHARON EBERSON Seated in rocking chairs and shaded from the sun, with a panoramic view of the Allegheny River, it’s easy to see how this place amid the backroads of Longue Vue Club came…
By CAMILLE AGIE “They say I have the best ass below 14th Street,” is a declaration spoken by Mimi, a young woman and drug addict, with a perfect combination of confidence and humor. Funn…
Pittsburgh CLO has revealed casting to finish out summer and head into the holiday season. The news includes who’s joining Beth Malone in Seussical, who’s returning as star of Who’s Ho…
The gala on September 21 includes a concert with Kelli O’Hara, Sierra Boggess, Jessie Mueller, Adam Pascal and Norm Lewis Leading lady of movie musicals, Oscar winner and Smithton, PA, nat…
By SHARON EBERSON PICT’s Bards From the Burgh 2 Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre’s second Bards from the Burgh, a fundraising reading series of four plays by Pittsburgh playwrigh…
Despite risks magnified by a devastating pandemic, Pittsburgh artists continue to carve out new choices for the theater scene By CAMILLE AGIE Theater companies all over the world are still a…
Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center has announced its 2024-25 subscription series of musical theater and dance, featuring an extended holiday stay for its annual The Nutcracker. Charlie &…
Little Lake Theatre is pitching something new under the sun this weekend, when Broadway at the Ballpark – a live, cabaret-style revue with more than 50 performers – is staged at the Wild…
The Pittsburgh New Works Festival enters its 33rd season partnering with local theater companies to present world premieres of 15 one-act plays, August 22-September 22, 2024, in the Genesius…
By SHARON EBERSON The rare sights of a standing ovation before the bows and audience members wiping away tears speak volumes about Pittsburgh CLO’s new production of The Color Purple, powe…
Column By SHARON EBERSON It’s Monday night, and the final seconds of the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals are ticking away as I write this. The live YouTube broadcast of the 2024 Jim…
DISCOUNTED TICKETS TO PITTSBURGH CLO’S THE COLOR PURPLE: BEFORE choosing show date and time, enter Promo Code: CLOPURPLE and receive $10 off each ticket purchased. (Discount will show at…
By Camille Agie “You won’t leave here as you came,” said PNC Pops conductor Bryon Stripling before the start of the concert, “Let’s Groove Tonight: Motown & The Philly Sound,…
Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s 2024-25 season will include the regional premiere of Waitress, the musical “about liberation, empowerment and pie,” with songs by Grammy-winner Sara Bariel…
Pittsburgh Public Theater has launched Public On Demand for its recent production of The Coffin Maker, a world premiere play by Mark Clayton Southers. Public On Demand provides “cinema-qua…
‘The only thing I’ve ever known is to show up for equality and justice.’ By SHARON EBERSON Billy Porter will step onto the stage at Lincoln Center on Sunday, already knowing he is a To…
By CAMILLE AGIE When West Side Story made its Broadway premiere in the 1950s, it was revolutionary. The legendary and immortal musical, which opens Pittsburgh CLO’s summer at the Benedum C…