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…
By SHARON EBERSON The Bennet sisters and their beaus have some unfinished business to attend to, two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice. So ingloriously did Jane Austen make that …
Classic Oratorio Receives an Outstanding Performance By George B. Parous The usual elements surrounding the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and a performance of George Frideric Handёl’s tim…
By JESSICA NEU Each year, as the holiday season draws near, there are countless symbols, themes, metaphors, and representations of Christmas. The spirit of Christmas is all around, from song…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. While we e try…
Somber Program for a Wintry Night By George B. Parous A program of curiously somber works, so close to the holiday season, was offered at Heinz Hall last evening, and for those braving the c…
By SHARON EBERSON It’s A Musical Christmas Carol for the hat trick, in Charles Shaughnessy’s 21-year journey with Pittsburgh CLO. The UK-born 5th Baron Shaughnessy, who most TV audiences…
Freeland Embraces the Opportunity to Advance the Future of Black Arts in Pittsburgh. He will assume this new leadership role and kick off ATC’s season in June 2025. ATC’s Board Chair Tra…
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…
Enjoy Christmas classics and popular favorites, and even sing along to some of the best-loved traditional carols with the PCC at three different venues between December 6 – 8, 2024. This y…
By SHARON EBERSON On a celebratory night of songs and surprises, Front Porch Theatricals announced the company’s 2025 summer shows, both Tony Award rivals for best musical in 1984. They ar…
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 Everything old is new again isn’t just a saying this holiday season. It’s a promise of more of what has proven popular, and in one case in particular, a welcome back. …
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. While we e try…
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…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. While we e try…
Melodious, Family-Friendly Phantasmagoria Charms Large Audience By GEORGE B. PAROUS Resonance Works gave the first of two performances of Rachel Portman’s charming The Little Prince last e…
By GREGORY LASKI A visit to Heinz Hall, with its luxurious red interior and stately marble columns, is always a treat. Soon, the venue will offer even more gifts when the skyscraper Christm…
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…
BY JESSICA NEU What comes to mind when you hear the name Michael Jackson? Perhaps “King of Pop,” Genius, the moonwalk, a Glove, white socks and black shoes, the Jackson 5, Bubbles the C…
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…
BY JESSICA NEU I was a senior in High School when I was first introduced to the multi-hyphenate Broadway extraordinaire Jason Robert Brown. My friends at CAPA were doing Parade as their S…
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…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. While we e try…
By JESSICA NEU By definition, a constellation is a group of visible stars that form a visible pattern. This pattern, however, is based solely on one’s perception, thereby rendering infinit…