Friday, June 7, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Let’s get right to it, because I know you’re wondering: What the heck is Fishy Woo Woo? By the time the newly minted, uproarious comedy by Monteze Freeland reveals the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:28PM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:43PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:50PM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 26, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:29AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 18, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 4, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:53PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:05PM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:40PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:07PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2024
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:43PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2024
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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