By JESSICA NEU It’s a “tale as old as time, and a song as old as rhyme.” Beauty and the Beast is the classic tale of Belle and the Beast that many people, young and old, have become fa…
Updated with corrections. Grease is the word for Pittsburgh Musical Theater March 7-17 at the Byham Theater, with Maya Santiago and Davis Wayne as the couple of destiny at Rydell High. Maya …
Front Porch Theatricals has announced casting for its 2024 summer musicals – A … My Name is Still Alice and Bandstand – with familiar faces taking the lead in shows making their loca…
By JESSICA NEU I had the pleasure of attending the opening night performance of Faculty Choreolab, presented by the Conservatory Dance Company of the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park …
The aptly titled Emerald Season features four full-length story ballets and one mixed repertory program, including family-friendly ballets, Pittsburgh premieres, world premieres, and wor…
“We all have memories of that one teacher that got us into trouble. When “I wasn’t even doin’ nothin’!” Adapted from SHAE WOFFORD’s story in the ATC Insider Nothing’s wors…
A new voice on the Pittsburgh theater scene, Gold Pyramid Screen and Stage, LLC, has announced itself as “telling the stories mainstream won’t” with Lorenzo Boone’s play, The Awakeni…
The February 17th & 18th concerts at Eastminster Presbyterian Churchfeatures soloists Graham Fandrei and Nicole Tascarella A requiem is said to be a Mass for the dead; Brahms’ Ein Deu…
Pittsburgh Public Theater will live stream the final four performances of current show Dragon Lady, through a partnership with the emerging nonprofit League of Live Stream Theater. In a firs…
By SHARON EBERSON Billy Hartung and a few of his Broadway friends are set to help Pittsburghers kick off your Sunday shoes, lose your blues, and everybody, cut footloose. It’s been 25 ye…
The New Hazlett Theater presents the premiere of Teaira Whitehead, playwright Melanie Taylor’s new play about finding truths in Pittsburgh’s past. Inspired by actual events, Teaira …
By SHARON EBERSON It is evident there was a divine plan from birth for Sara Porkalob. Deliver her into a family of strong women with irresistibly juicy stories to tell, and have her grow up …
Resident Artist Tenor Speaks of Upcoming Production Next Saturday, February 17, 2024, marks the first production by Pittsburgh Opera of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Proving Up, a work …
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. Apart from the…
By JESSICA NEU My husband, Ben, and I just celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. We met 13 years ago, in person, at work. Had someone asked me the day before I met my now husband all of th…
By SHARON EBERSON Willie Dixon stands as tall in forging the foundation of American popular music as a certain “ten-dollar Founding Father” did in paving the foundation of our country. B…
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Pittsburgh CLO, has announced a starry concert production of Fiddler on the Roof, with Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley as Tevye. And…
The performance brings life to composer Heinrich Biber’s imaginative and dramatic Sonatas on the Mysteries of the Rosary. Chatham Baroque welcomes Grammy-award-winning Baroque group Apo…
Pittsburgh-based playwright Tammy Ryan has been named the inaugural recipient of The Boost, a new commission awarded to a woman, trans or nonbinary playwright over the age of 40, for a play …
The Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh, with guest tenor Timothy Stoddard, will perform the rarely heard masterpiece, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings by Benjamin Britten, as well as…
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this timeless tale about the transformative power of love. Beauty and the Beast is a whimsical, imaginative storybook ballet whose charming characters and c…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. Apart from the…
“The blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits.” – Willie Dixon By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh actor Sam Lothard will channel blues pioneer Willie Dixon in the premiere productio…
Enthusiastically Received at Trinity Cathedral Last Night; Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church for Sunday Matinee By George B. Parous “The Lamps may be different, but the Light is the same.” …
Broadway couple Libby Servais (Wicked and The Strand’s Heroes & Villains) and husband Stephan Stubbins (Mary Poppins) will present their romantic musical celebration, Broadway i…