Pittsburgh native Billy Porter has been named the 2024 recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, “in recognition of his outstanding dedication and contributions as an activist and sp…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. We try to list…
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Shares Report Revealing Social Benefits and $1.26 Billion in Direct Impact The contributions of a thriving arts scene to the economy and vitality of Allegheny…
Audiences for the performances at Attack Theatre Studios on Friday the 3rd and at the Silver Eye Center for Photography on Saturday the 4th each had their own unique experience with the Some…
The Play Closes the Broadway in Pittsburgh 2023-24 Season By SHARON EBERSON In the resume of Ramzi Khalaf, there are quite a few attention grabbers. In 1993, he toured as bar mitzvah-boy Jas…
2024-25 will include DNAWORKS’ The Real James Bond … Was Dominican’ City Theatre kicked off the month of May by completing the lineup for 2024-25, the South Side company’s 50th anniv…
City Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater are co-hosts of the 2024 spring meeting of the League of Resident Theatres, being held starting today, May 1-3, in Downtown Pittsburgh The gather…
Nominees Representing Four Counties Announced Broadway actress Arielle Jacobs will help celebrate high school musical theater excellence as the speaker at th 2024 Henry Mancini Awards, which…
By SHARON EBERSON The 2024 Tony Award nominations were announced today, with many shows having opened just this month to earn consideration. The mad scramble for Tonys voters included shows …
Pittsburgh CLO has revealed the cast and creative team of summer season opener Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, with Gabrielle Lee as Billie “Lady Day” Holiday, directed by Tomé…
By SHARON EBERSON The spirit of August Wilson permeated the O’Reilly Theater Monday night, as the monologue and design competition that bears his name came home to Pittsburgh for the first…
By JESSICA NEW If we reflect on pop culture history, we can likely recall numerous examples of allegorical tales of suburban relational dysfunction. From American Beauty to Revolutionary R…
Dramady with Operatic Interludes Opens at the Byham By George B. Parous The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, as is widely known by now, is a play rather than an opera. There certainly is pia…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. We try to list…
By SHARON EBERSON Blending bold brushstrokes of historic events with insightful artistic license, Andy Warhol in Iran prods and pokes at a topical piñata, unleashing debates over art, polit…
The Mendelssohn Choir, Soloists and Two Commissioned World Premières Add to What May Be the Most Remarkable Concert of the Season By GEORGE B. PAROUS Routinely, Manfred Honeck and the Pitts…
Prime Stage Theatre’s upcoming presentation of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution is a gripping courtroom drama of love betrayed, and murder avenged. Witness for the Pro…
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the premiere production of The Coffin Marker, the newest addition to Mark Clayton Southers’ cycle of plays set in the…
The season welcomes renowned University alumni, brand new suites of programming, and more. Point Park University‘s vision for the award-winning Pittsburgh Playhouse‘s 2024-2025 seas…
By SHARON EBERSON It won’t be long before Marc Masterson wakes up to new adventures and some well-earned “me” time, and without the exhilaration and headaches of running a theater comp…
“In 1943, the National Negro Opera Company is set to perform on a floating barge to evade racially-segregated venues,” the opera’s program notes tell us. “But when bad weather threat…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. We try to list…
Powerful Program Thrills Audience and Scores Another Success for PSO By GEORGE B. PAROUS Everything was thrillingly perfect at Heinz Hall last evening. That about sums it up. But a few more …
By JESSICA NEU Music historians often reminisce about unique times throughout the 1900s that helped to shift, transform, or inspire the musical zeitgeist of the era. Stories are told of the …
Three local students will represent Pittsburgh in the national August Wilson New Voices Competition, to be held at Pittsburgh Public Theater on April 29. In its 18th year, this is the first …