The new 4-acre Downtown park Arts Landing was given a blockbuster welcome on April 17, 2026, when local and state dignitaries including Governor Josh Shapiro attended a ribbon-cutting ceremo…
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK 5, 4, 3, 2, 1—lift off! This is not the much-narrated Apollo 11, nor is it the latest Artemis II mission. In fact, the subject here is not the renewed space ra…
This year marks Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks’ 22nd season of bringing free Shakespeare into city parks and different public and private spaces. The company has performed in countl…
Call Board for April 18: With news on off the WALL's finale and Carnegie Stage, and casting news from Prime Stage, Front Porch Theatricals, and independent Sixty-Nine—Seventy.
Pitt Stages, the production arm of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Theatre Arts, has unveiled its 2026–2027 season, themed Perseverance. This season’s lineup blends mainstag…
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Manfred Honeck, will embark on a three-week 2026 European Tour, performing 13 concerts across six countries and nine cities, including tw…
If you love rapid-fire, eye-rolling puns, the North American Tour of "Shucked," now at the Benedum Center, will fill you to overflowing with "farm to fable" lunacy and laughter.
“In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.” — Ludwig van Beethoven Chamber Music Pittsburgh has announced its 66th MainStage Live…
COMMENTARY by SHARON EBERSON How do you give a stage production a “best” award and not even nominate the lead performer? That’s what the 2026 Olivier Awards did this past weekend. Ma…
Pittsburgh Public Theater, following the finale of its 51st season, has announced that Homewood-based Alumni Theater Company will present "Once on This Island" at the Public’s Downtown hom…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh stages this week and through the end of May from onStage Pittsburgh. We strive to highlight as many performances as possible, but the…
By HANNAH WING-BONICA Peep show. Stuffed animals. Fortune cookies. Witch. Femur. These are a few of the words spoken by Alida, a writer of a fairytale at the beginning of off the WALL’s …
By GUILHEREME MELETTI YAZBEK There is something inherently unstable about a mixed repertory program. Unlike a full-length work, which unfolds through a sustained aesthetic trajectory—devel…
By Guilherme Meletti Yazbek Last night, I found myself laughing—a lot. Sitting in the audience at City Theatre, watching The Second City’s Laugh Harder, Not Smarter, I was carried along…
Virginia Wall Gruenert, Ericka Cuenca and Ingrid Sonnichsen Reunite for company’s finale at Carnegie Stage By SHARON EBERSON Seated in a cozy corner of the Carnegie Stage lobby, three wome…
By JESSICA NEU Walking into the Playhouse theater for their current production of Thornton Wilder’s classic play, Our Town, you are greeted with a barren stage immersed in three-quarters…
With news on Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Park celebrating the Bard’s birthday, independent productions ‘Shakespeare R&J’ and ‘Hamlet: The Bad Quarto,’ Rage of the Stage Play…
What Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre will be reading in May: May 16-17: A fundraiser and staged reading of "A Winter's Tale." May 19, 21, 23 & 24: 4th annual Bards From the Bur…
In Ty Greenwood’s powerful new drama, "Paradox of Education," a group of Black students discover that scholarships to a PWI — predominantly white institutions — come with student debt,…
By JESSICA NEU Pittsburgh native Maria Caruso is known for many things – owning the dance company Bodiography, performing her own solo shows, educating, choreographing, producing, directi…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh stages this week and through the end of May from onStage Pittsburgh. We strive to highlight as many performances as possible, but the…
Theater is an art form that continues to expand humanity's understanding of reality through many different formats. We’ve seen the changes that theater has gone through and continues to do…
10 Out of 12 — the working and break hours in a day prescribed by union rules — celebrates the unsung behind-the-scenes heroes who make sure the magic happens. It’s also a time when mu…
Writer Ty Greenwood and Director Maurice Redwood Connect on Work Inspired by James Baldwin By SHARON EBERSON Few works on Pittsburgh stages have deeper roots within the city limits than Ty G…
By MINGSI MA Water for Elephants is a no-doubt true showstopper, and I find it hard to select a single aspect to praise because there are so many stunners throughout the performance. First …