Monday, May 26, 2025
The Scottish play has awakened passions since Shakespeare’s day, inspiring countless interpretations and re-imaginings along the way. Enter Mac Beth by Erica Schmidt, “equally giggly an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO’s 34th annual Gene Kelly Awards, a celebratory ceremony of recognition for excellence in high school musical theater, has crowned the 2025 winners among 34…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
The Henry Mancini Awards, representing high schools in Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties, crowned its 2025 winners on May 18. Congrats to all!
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2025
It's true. It's ture. Pittsburgh CLO has named the cast of "Camelot," starring Adam Kantor ("The Band's Visit") as King Arthur.
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 11, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON The four-day symposium hosted by the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater will be filled with performances and legacy showcases, but the focus is the way forward for the East Liberty th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON The cuts have been expected, but now that the axe has come down, arts and culture organizations nationwide are feeling the pain and contemplating next steps. The Trump Admi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:02PM[SHARE]Admittedly, as an opening salvo to Kinetic Theatre's 2025 season, "Embers" is not an easy watch. But Andrew Paul has faith in Kinetic's audience to go where his taste for emotional and histo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:34AM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2025
"Twelve Angry Men" was written in 1954 by Reginald Rose as a teleplay, then adapted into a stage play in 1955, and an Oscar-nominated film in 1957. The play opened on May 2, 2025, at the Ne…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 4, 2025
"Mark Fleischer, who knows Matt [Castle] and Frank from Brainstorm Records, called them and said, ‘What on earth is this thing you're doing with my favorite Champagne?’ And they said, …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2025
The 78th annual Tony Awards nominations were announced on Thursday, May 1, 2025, with, as is often the case, Carnegie Mellon University alums front and center. Megan Hilty earned her second …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2025
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company and the August Wilson House have made it official, setting the schedule for a 2025 three-play summer festival, titled August Wilson's American Century …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:49PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON It might put you at ease to know that you don’t have to be a sports fan to cheer for King James, a funny and poignant ode to lifelong fandom and an underdog friendship, s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2025
The enchantment begins the moment you enter ASCEND, a circle of wonder within the Pittsburgh Playhouse, where an original, interactive visual feast, in the style and grandeur of Cirque du So…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:51PM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Elizabeth Eliza Huffman wanted Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre to open 2025 with a classic, and had her heart set on Miss Julie, the 1888 play about power and desi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2025
Michael Patrick Trimm on the Pittsburgh premiere of "King James," about friends bonded through a love of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, at City Theatre: “This play is as much ab…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2025
"Some Like It Hot," the musical, pays tribute to the “enduring treasure” of a film, with antics and jokes that are a throwback to the Roaring '20s, plus an updated twist or two, for a ro…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Some Like It Hot is a movie with music that swings, and the musical based on the movie takes that to heart. Set in the Prohibition era, the stage production dances and sing…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:21PM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2025
City Theatre heads into the 2025-2026 season with an expansive five-show subscription lineup that features three world premieres, a Pittsburgh premiere, a revival in the heart of the Pittsbu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2025
Lucas Fedele takes the lead as co-director/choreographer of PMT's "Jesus Christ Superstar," starring Treasure Treasure and Brecken Newton Farrell.
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Repulsing the Monkey is coming home to the South Side. The play with the memorable name, about the fate of a family-owned tavern on the Slopes, had its first staged reading…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2025
Nick: You’re all crazy: nuts.Martha: Awww, ’tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads. … Relax; sink into it; you’re no better than an…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Quantum Theatre gave a few dozen patrons a peek at the future on Saturday, March 15, with a preview of the first show of the 2025-26 season, the Joanie Schultz adaptation o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON Birthday Candles leans into the poignancy of one woman’s journey of 100 years, punctuated by personal events that warm and break hearts, along with the inevitable family …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Change is in the air at Easy Piney Grove Baptist Church, and for longtime parishioners, nothing good can come of it. Uncompromising, disapproving elders and rebellious yo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 8, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON The spellbinding production of Witch now at Carnegie Stage has inspired the punster in me, and in that spirit, the word that comes to mind most is “soul-searching.” In …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Having seen Kimberly Akimbo once, what I missed the most the second time around was not knowing what comes next. The Tony Award-winning musical that skated into the Bened…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 1, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Justin Cooley speaks in the most humble terms of leap-frogging past college, from high school to Broadway, as a “strange transition.” Most people would call his life …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2025
The Star of ‘The Oval’ Directs His Own Work for Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company By SHARON EBERSON Even with rehearsals underway, Javon Johnson is still surprised that Sanctified i…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:51PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Knowing the destiny of the unwilling participants in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment doesn’t ease the heartbreak stirred by the men of Feed the Beast. Writer, d…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Actress Wiletta Mayer has been invisible in plain sight, without even realizing it. But that’s about change. After 25 years as a performer, the Black actress has earned…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:48PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Two old friends walk into a coffee shop, having not seen each other for eight years. They hug, they reminisce, they sip their coffees, they argue, they each deliver shock a…
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