By JESSICA NEU Sitting amidst a hazy theater, I was scrolling through my phone when I heard the beat start. I immediately put my phone down and smiled. Then I heard the first few “La da d…
With news from Arcade Comedy Theater, Off the Record, New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh CLO, and Pittsburgh Festival Opera HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE AT ARCADE COMEDY The new comedy show Night of the…
Utopia, Limited, is one of the duo’s rarest and most ambitious operettas. First performed in 1893, Utopia, Limited tells the story of a secluded island kingdom determined to transform …
An adaptation of "Bartleby, The Scrivener," written and performed by Sam Tsoutsouvas and directed by Andrew Paul for Kinetic Theatre, delivers a pitch-perfect solo retelling as Melville told…
[Contains spoilers about the end of the show] Saturday evening, October 18th , Pittsburgh Opera will open this season with Puccini’s La Bohème, one of the most beloved and frequently perf…
Winner of over 35 international awards, including two 2022 Tony Awards, Six returns to the Benedum Center through October 12th. By JESSICA NEU As women, we often find ourselves in spaces …
By JESSICA NEU One of the aspects I love most about events at the Greer Cabaret Theater is that conventional theater rules do not necessarily apply to the performers. There’s a sense of…
Among the loudest applause on opening night of Noises Off at Pittsburgh Public Theater was the turntable reveal of the play-within-the-play’s backstage, to begin the second act. Another bi…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh stages this week and through the end of October, brought to you by onStage Pittsburgh. We strive to highlight as many performances as…
By SHARON EBERSON A dictator’s wife behaves like a spoiled child, oblivious to her people’s cries of anguish. What could possibly go wrong? The First Lady of the USA premiere play Firs…
By Guilherme Meletti Yazbek This one-act play by multidisciplinary artist and actress Moire del Carmen is the result of a creative process developed during the Freshworks artist residency …
Seductive multilingual, multicultural, multimedia "Another Kind of Silence," now at City Theatre. contains standard plot points from relationship dramas, but the playwright has wrapped the w…
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC), in partnership with Hazelwood Local, invites families, friends, and neighbors to step into The Electric Playground on this Sat…
IN MEMORAM: GEORGE B. PAROUS, OUR OPERA AND CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWER George B. Parous, onStage Pittsburgh’s cherished contributor and reviewer of opera and classical music, passed away une…
Noises Off, a backstage farce amid a play within a play, has been the gold standard of theater comedies since the work was first produced in 1983. For Pittsburgh Public Theater, the current …
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh stages this week and through the end of October, brought to you by onStage Pittsburgh. We strive to highlight as many performances as…
This fall, Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Freshworks creative residency returns to KST’s Alloy Studios, showcasing two new performance works-in-progress that transform deeply personal exp…
An early sign of how Pittsburgh’s largest producing theaters may share or merge services came today, as City Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater announced a collaboration to “take in m…
Fab 4 Set for barebone’s ‘God of Carnage’ Barebones productions has announced the cast of its next show, Yasmin Reza’s God of Carnage, with artistic director Patrick Jordan join…
First performed in 1893, Utopia, Limited tells the story of a secluded island kingdom determined to transform itself by adopting the institutions, fashions, and foibles of Victorian Eng…
The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh will present a season unlike any other in its 2025–26 series, Cirque de Cinéma, exploring the powerful interplay between choral music and the moving image. T…
By SHARON EBERSON American Theatre Magazine has released its lists of the Top 10 Most Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights for the upcoming 2025-2026 season, with Pittsburgh c…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh stages this week and through the end of October, brought to you by onStage Pittsburgh. We strive to highlight as many performances as…
By JESSICA NEU Renowned visionary and choreographer Hervé Koubi greeted a nearly sold-out crowd at the Byham Theater Saturday evening. He introduced his critically acclaimed show Compagn…
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK In This Moment celebrates the 15th anniversary of Texture Contemporary Ballet, and the company takes the stage with maturity and strong presence. Under the arti…