By JESSICA NEU Miguel Muñoz, World Champion of Magic, opens Liberty Magic‘s 2024-25 season with his show What is Magic for You? Muñoz is a magician, circus artist, and Puntocero co-dir…
By GREGORY LASKI On a late September evening in a rehearsal room perched on the third floor of The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts student act…
Three Culturally Distinct Choruses, One Extraordinary Performance The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (MCP) presents its groundbreaking new initiative, CrosSING Bridges, with a free RAD Da…
By SHARON EBERSON Charles Gray, who served as executive director of Pittsburgh CLO from 1982 to 1996, years that included the founding of the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School …
Pittsburgh Musical Theater (PMT) offers another way to revel in all things Fall: gore, horror, and fun this Halloween season with one of the craziest musical experiences ever. While it of…
New Resident Artist Speaks of Upcoming Season Opener – and Himself Saturday, October 5, 2024, marks the season opener of Pittsburgh Opera, with Puccini’s ever-popular, always exciting To…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area this summer. Wh…
By Bob Hoover Don’t you love farce? Of course you do, and City Theatre is giving you one of the most raunchy, pratfall-filled comedies ever staged in Pittsburgh. With its awkward subti…
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…
By SHARON EBERSON It’s hard to imagine how a play with so much Pittsburgh heart and soul was met with such fondness in previous productions in Los Angeles and Chicago, and now that Andy Wa…
City Rewinds: 50 Years of New Plays‘ provides a decade-by-decade retrospective of the organization’s most beloved shows. City Theatre’s new reading series that celebrates some of the c…
Presents Debut of Its Reson8 Vocal Octet in Eclectic Program By GEORGE B. PAROUS Sunday afternoon at the Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside, marked the debut of a Resonance Works first – …
UPDATE: After this story was published, Susan Davey had to leave the production and was replaced by Phoebe Lloyd (Carnegie Mellon Class of 2023). By SHARON EBERSON “It’s a typical Pittsb…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area this summer. Wh…
By JESSICA NEU Texture Contemporary Ballet’s Fragments of Time opened Friday evening at the New Hazlett Theater. The show opens Artistic Director Alan Obuzor’s 2016 work “Un-Pres…
By SHARON EBERSON You can see Carnegie Mellon School of Drama alumni on almost any given day there is a live performance in the region, but the university was looking for a direct way to bri…
By SHARON EBERSON Kelli O’Hara’s voice emanated from the phone Thursday morning, talking about Shirley Jones. Musical royalty gushing about royalty. Sublime. There’ll be more of that a…
The Theatre Factory presents Misery, William Goldman‘s haunting play based on Stephen King‘s novel. Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon (Lingenfelter), who is re…
Renn Woods, film, television, stage star, and vocalist, is in Pittsburgh to portray Grandma Sadie for the encore performance of The Awakening. Written by Pittsburgh playwright Lorenzo Bo…
By SHARON EBERSON The easiest decision about celebrating Shirley Jones’ life, career and legacy was that it would take place in Pittsburgh. “I wouldn’t have wanted to do it anywhere …
If you’ve ever wanted to have an intimate conversation about Oreos or Fig Newtons with the fellow who invented them, stop by Homewood Cemetery on the afternoon of September 28th and meet S…
In 2010, following her successful six-year tenure as Dance Alloy’s Theatre’s Executive Artistic Director, Beth Corning turned her creative energies to solely focusing and producing her o…
By SHARON EBERSON Fresh but still glowing with period flare, and dare I say fun when the subject is murder, Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 50th season is off to a fine-tuned, stylish start. T…
The trio comprises Back to the Future tour, Disney’s Frozen and Camelot By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO’s 2025 three-show summer season, announced to subscribers on Friday, arrives as p…
Portraying "Hamilton" Tyler Fauntleroy leads us on a journey. Fauntleroy's Hamilton is near perfection. He adds his own modulations and inflections throughout the show to make the character …