Thursday, February 29, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 24, 2024
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh CLO gather dozens of performers for a production that speaks to the heart By SHARON EBERSON It takes a balancing act of faith, talent and chutzpa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Tomé Cousin directs and Etta Cox stars for barebones, in the Tony-nominated Dominique Morisseau play By SHARON EBERSON Tomé Cousin’s day launches as a professor of dance at Carnegie Mell…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:38PM[SHARE]‘Tevye is one of those roles that I’ve always felt I’m right for’ By SHARON EBERSON Tony Award-winning actor Shuler Hensley sounds a bit giddy on the phone, describing where he is: …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:35PM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2024
Compiled by SHARON EBERSON It’s time for curtains to rise on an annual rite of spring that begins in February: A comprehensive listing of high school musical theater productions throughout…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 17, 2024
Tony-Nominated Play Introduces Brandon Foxworth to Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON Brandon Foxworth’s path to City Theatre and the lead role in Fat Ham was a matter of happenstance, plus a wh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:33PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2024
“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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Jimmy Nicholas is an “and” guy, not an “or” guy. That’s how the actor explains all of the “ands” after acting jobs, including the title role in Pittsburgh CLO…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh theater-goers will soon have the opportunity to experience two writer-performers channeling multiple characters in distinctly different solo shows. While Tami Di…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:51PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON At the end of a decade marked by a pandemic, the opioid crisis and ideological division, we all could use a big hope-filled hug. In South Side Stories Revisited, the sequ…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Cirque: Crystal arrived in Pittsburgh Friday accompanied by cold and snow, appropriate for the company’s only show on ice. This Cirque du Soleil glides and flies through …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Tami Dixon has a case of “brain spaghetti,” as she calls it. It’s a condition she experienced 10 years ago, when she researched, wrote and performed the solo tour de …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:11PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON It is purely coincidence that Cirque du Soleil’s Crystal, the ice show coming to PPG Arena January 18-21, is led by Crystal Manich. Her resume by any other name would be …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]Friday, December 29, 2023
Penn State Alum Aidan Wharton Goes on Tour After Broadway Debut, Plans Proud Haven Fundraiser By SHARON EBERSON Although it’s the real deal, Aidan Wharton’s Broadway debut story sounds a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 28, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Well, practice, of course. And if you are Stephen Flaherty, you also become a hitmaker, and make your alma mater proud. The Dormont native …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 19, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON My Facebook timeline has of late been lighting up with exciting free programming at the Lounge at the Greer Cabaret Theater, in addition to the Trust Cabaret Series, CLO Ca…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2023
Christine Laitta, Aaron Galligan-Stierle Join Michael Cerveris’ Scrooge and a Cast of Dozens at the Byham Theater By SHARON EBERSON Some performers we know for decades, some come and go; t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON So much Pittsburgh theater, so little time is among my top picks for the subtitle of my theater-going life. A good overall title might be: “There’s No Business Like Cov…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 2, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Escape the holiday bustle and hustle and head over to the South Side, where you can join those crazy kids from Pride and Prejudice in a heartfelt romp, tinseled and decked …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Wanna find outWho’s naughty or niceAnd not have to askIf Santa checked twice?If you’re thinking it’s Scrooge,It could be, that’s true.But I’ll tell you right now:…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, with holiday-themed live performances ramping up throughout the region. It picks up this weekend with Miss Bennet’s Christm…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2023
COMMENTARY By SHARON EBERSON When I see the words “Starring Rob McClure,” I think, “I’m all in.” So tonight, when he and wife Maggie Lakis take the Benedum Center stage in the musi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:25PM[SHARE]All-Female ‘A … My Name is Still Alice’ and the Pittsburgh Premiere of ‘Bandstand’ Are on Tap for 2024 By SHARON EBERSON On a music-filled night representing Front Porch Theatrical…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:38AM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2023
Afro-American Music Institute Presents Pittsburgh-centric ‘Lady Day,’ Based on Vernell Lillie Work By SHARON EBERSON Broadway veteran and Clairton native Rema Webb made her second Pittsb…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 18, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Even as hell breaks loose in the Mamet masterwork American Buffalo, it is funny as hell, and full of heart. How perfect, then, that Patrick Jordan’s barebones productio…
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