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Monday, June 3, 2024

Review: Jeff Goldblum Makes New Pittsburgh Memories in One-Night-Only Concert by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON So many versions of Jeff Goldblum were onstage Saturday night, it was hard to keep track of which Jeff was which, except when he was making music with The Mildred Snitzer O…

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Review: ‘The Coffin Maker’ Turns the Tables on Injustice in Searing Debut by Sharon Eberson

The Powerful Premiere Concludes Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 2023-24 Season on a High Note By SHARON EBERSON The Coffin Maker, a riveting, provocative world-premiere work from Mark Clayton …

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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Barebones Delves Into Family Drama With New Play ‘The Animal Kingdom’ by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON The family drama The Animal Kingdom, which had its United States premiere in February, comes to Braddock for its Pittsburgh debut starting June 14, via Patrick Jordan’s b…

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Double Take: Monteze Freeland Directs Pittsburgh Public’s ‘The Coffin Maker,’ While His Own Play Debuts a Few Miles Away by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON In theatrical leadership, influence and inspiration, few can match the output and goodwill spread throughout Pittsburgh by Mark Clayton Southers and Monteze Freeland.  Thi…

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Monday, May 27, 2024

Jazzy Jeff Goldblum Heads to Pittsburgh, Then Off to Be the Wizard by Sharon Eberson

The West Homestead native Is in Concert on June 1 at the Benedum Center By SHARON EBERSON When Jeff Goldblum talks about returning to Pittsburgh, the phrase that comes most readily to mind i…

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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Pittsburgh CAPA, Avonworth and Thomas Jefferson High Schools Lead the Way at 2024 Gene Kelly Awards by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO’s 33rd annual Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater was a night to celebrate arts education, feel school and community pride, exp…

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Friday, May 24, 2024

New Horizon’s ‘The Nacirema Society’ Invites Audiences to Have a Ball by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON The New Horizon Theater has a ready-made invitation in the title of the upcoming The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First On…

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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Review: Pittsburgh CLO’s Transcendent ‘Lady Day’ Delivers a Star Turn as Billie Holiday by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON In an alcohol-fueled haze of heartbreak and sardonic humor, when it was a struggle to stand on her own two feet, it was music that sustained Billie Holiday. Lady Day at Eme…

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

‘An Old Sweet Song’: Pittsburgh CLO’s Lady Day Gets Into the Billie Holiday Spirit by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON For Gabrielle Lee, who has sung on stages all over the world, starring in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill will be a gateway back to her future. The future is tomorr…

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Front Porch Theatricals Takes Us Back to the Nineties With ‘A … My Name Is Still Alice’ by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON For some of us, the 1990s may seem like only yesterday. It was the decade that led to the launch of the Information Age. with the development of smartphones and the World W…

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

33rd Gene Kelly Awards Names 2024 Nominees, Representing 33 Allegheny County High Schools by Sharon Eberson

The 33rd annual Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater has announced the nominees who will take the stage for the ceremony and musical extravaganza on Saturday, May …

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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Study: Arts and Culture Nonprofits ‘Punch Above Their Weight’ for Allegheny County’s Economy by Sharon Eberson

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…

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Ramzi Khalaf Stars in ‘Kite Runner,’ Based on the Runaway Bestseller by Sharon Eberson

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…

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

City Theatre Stirs Things Up to Complete 50th Anniversary Season Lineup  by Sharon Eberson

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…

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

National August Wilson New Voices Competition Crowns Winners in Pittsburgh by Sharon Eberson

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…

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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Review: In Sizzling City Theatre Season Finale, Andy Warhol Debates Art and Politics in Iran by Sharon Eberson

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…

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Season Finale ‘Andy Warhol in Iran’ Marks Masterson’s Final Chapter as a City Theatre Artistic Director by Sharon Eberson

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…

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Monday, April 15, 2024

2024-25 Broadway in Pittsburgh Delivers 10-Show Extravaganza by Sharon Eberson

Tony-winners Kimberly Akimbo, Some Like it Hot, Life of Pi and MJ lead a pack that also heralds Hamilton return By SHARON EBERSON The 2024-25 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh season features 10 sh…

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Pittsburgh CLO Launches ‘Remove the Barriers’ Initiatives by Sharon Eberson

Suburban shuttles, childcare and family discounts are added to patron engagement programs By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO is shaking up how it does business for year No. 78, including a sum…

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Saturday, April 6, 2024

Review: Scenes of a Rabble-Rouser as a Renaissance Artist by Sharon Eberson

Lisa Velten Smith Executes a Demanding Role With Brio for Quantum Theatre By SHARON EBERSON Speaking truth to power is never easy, but when it comes in torrential waves, from a bawdy, bellig…

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Delana Flowers Revisits the Queen of the Blues in Pittsburgh Playwrights’ ‘Dinah’ by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON Just one more thing, Delana Flowers was saying, before our goodbyes. She had been discussing her return to Dinah: A musical revue, as Dinah Washington, who declared herself…

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Jeff Goldblum Returns to Pittsburgh in Role of Piano Man by Sharon Eberson

Pittsburgh CLO Concert With the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra is June 1, 2024 at the Benedum Center By SHARON EBERSON Twenty years after Jeff Goldblum romped as The Music Man for Pittsburgh CLO,…

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Sunday, March 31, 2024

Review: An ‘Earnest’ Display of Wilde Delights Awaits at Pittsburgh Public Theater by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON Undoubtedly, there are some who will arrive at Pittsburgh Public Theater’s latest iteration of The Importance of Being Earnest with favorite interpretations. After all, O…

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Love Among the Rules: Jenny Koons Goes Wilde for ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at Pittsburgh Public Theater by Sharon Eberson

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever marry, I’ll try to forget the fact. – From “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde By SHARON EBERSON Director Jenny Koo…

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Monday, March 25, 2024

‘Scenes From an Execution’ Takes a Quantum Leap Into the Power of Art by Sharon Eberson

Director Andrew William Smith and star Lisa Velten Smith discuss the Pittsburgh premiere and 2023-24 season finale By SHARON EBERSON Don’t be deceived by the title Scenes From an Execution…

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Friday, March 22, 2024

Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 50th Season Takes Epic Journeys With ‘The Hobbit’ and Full-Circle Public Works’ ‘Twelfth Night’ by Sharon Eberson

Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 50th anniversary season in 2024-25 will include a six-show lineup packed with Pittsburgh premieres, a slate of offstage programming, and a big, full-circle fini…

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Winner Takes It All: ‘Mamma Mia!’ at 25 Heads Back to Pittsburgh by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON Whether you love’em, hate ’em or judge each on its own merit, you can credit Mamma Mia! with paving the way to the jukebox musicals that have followed in the super trou…

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Meet the Dynamic Dancing Duo at the Helm of PMT’s ‘Grease’ by Sharon Eberson

Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique Bring Broadway, Ballet and ‘Fame’ to Their Work in Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON Catching up with Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique about their remarka…

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Saturday, March 2, 2024

Review: Prime Stage’s Powerful ‘And Then They Came For Me’ Tells of Survival in a World Gone Mad by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON History, no matter how traumatic, no matter how horrific, demands we bear witness, and, in the best of all worlds, we experience empathy, we fine-tune our humanity. We lear…

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Friday, March 1, 2024

City Theatre to Look Back and Ahead in 50th season by Sharon Eberson

2024-25 Season Includes New Reading Series, ‘POTUS,’ Pemberley for the Holidays and Celebratory Events City Theatre is gearing up for its 50th season with the announcement of four of fiv…

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Commentary: Pittsburgh Public’s ‘Dragon Lady’ Streamed Live; ‘Book of Mormon’: What’s Changed and What Remains the Same by Sharon Eberson

By SHARON EBERSON I was treated to a link last weekend to see Sara Porkalob’s final Pittsburgh Public Theater performance of Dragon Lady live, on a screen, in the comfort of home. I had se…

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