Sunday, December 22, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON It’s been a bumpy road to get to the best-of list, with a forecast of potholes and promise for the foreseeable future. So fasten your seatbelts, and let’s go. If achi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON To begin with, descending into the depths of the Stephen Foster Memorial, I was immediately transported into the combined worlds of Dickens and Doyle. With immersive stagin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Nearly one-quarter of artists who filled out the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s 2024 Artist Community Survey said they are earning less than $15,000 annually, indicating a poverty rate …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Head to Google, and you will find tens of thousands of folks asking the burning question, “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” Bricolage Productions, back in the Midnight R…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Emma Diehl is a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater, in partnership with American Theatre magazine. By EMMA DIEHL Ever wonder if the Grinch is well-endowed? Pittsbur…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:53AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2024
2025 Mainstage Shows set at South Park South Park Theatre launches into the holiday season with Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!), a co-production with Mon River Arts, along w…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Sherlock Holmes is the gift that keeps on giving to David Whalen and Andrew Paul, with another package about to be unwrapped for fans of both the timeless fictional detecti…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:47AM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON ENTREATY: The AMC movie chain plans to play a 30-second advisory before “Wicked: Part 1,” reminding moviegoers that “silence is golden”; in other words, no singin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company has announced three 2025 productions, including Two Trains Running, which will “be presented as part of a planned festival of August Wilson plays, ta…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Plus: GPAC Funds the Arts and PICT 2025 COMMENTARY You go away for a week, you could come back humming, What’d I Miss? Or, when it comes to Pittsburgh theater, you can check out What’s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:52PM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2024
Mingsi Ma is currently a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater, in partnership with American Theatre magazine. This interview was conducted in Mandarin, and the quotes have…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2024
City Theatre is getting decked out for the holidays with the second installment of the Jane Austen-inspired Pemberley trilogy, produced in association with the Carnegie Mellon University S…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:24PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2024
Lindsay Anne Herring is currently a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater in partnership with American Theatre magazine. By LINDSAY ANNE HERRING During the crazed rush of perf…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON “Because after all, everyone deserves one song …” That goes for the female serial killers of RealTime Arts’ true-crime concert musical Angelmakers, which returns st…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 19, 2024
New Horizon Theater presents Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee, the story of six of the first African-American aviators in the United States Army Air Forces. Black Angels Over Tusk…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Laura Benanti never once said, “Hello, Pittsburgh!” Nor did she mention a sports team during her second show at the Greer Cabaret Monday night. Instead, the self-procla…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:16AM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2024
Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new speaker series Making Art Work kicks off five sessions on Monday with Mark Valdéz, artistic director of Minneapolis’ Mixed Blood Theatre, for a moderated…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2024
For more performing arts scares and treats this spooky season, visit onStage Pittsburgh’s What’s On Stage, and check out VisitPittsburgh’s guide to Halloween events in Pittsburgh (it…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:44PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON City Theatre has answered the question, “Where to begin?,” as it launches its 50th season this weekend, with the official opening of POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbas…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2024
A new space dedicated to “performance, culture, conversation, community, and food” is coming to Wilkinsburg, in the Community Forge space that is home to Bricolage Production Company. Th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Tamara Tunie, Tami Dixon and More Join Forces to Save a Stumbling Presidency City Theatre is getting ready to open its 50th season with an election-season farce, featuring a cast of formidab…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:14PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2024
Evil Dead the Musical is on its way back for a fifth groovy, gory year at Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s West End Canopy. The cast for fall 2024 includes Brett Goodnack as Ash, a housewares …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2024
The inaugural Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Icon Awards will be presented to Carol R. Brown, the Trust’s first president and CEO, philanthropist Teresa Heinz and sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, at T…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON By the numbers, the Pittsburgh premiere of Bandstand: A New American Musical is the largest show ever mounted by Front Porch Theatricals. By the emotional breadth of the sh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2024
City Theatre and three regional partners have commissioned Lauren Gunderson, one of America’s most-produced playwrights, to adapt Little Women for a coast-to-coast launch. In partnership w…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:28PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2024
Pittsburgh CLO has announced the extension of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, running now through September 29, 2024, at the Greer Cabaret Theater. The original PCLO cast of Dan DeLuca…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:52PM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2024
By CAMILLE AGIE A-listers such as Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington and the dozens of cast and crew members of the “Hamilton” tour have something in common when they work in Pittsburgh. …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
Pittsburgh Public Theater has grown its team with “significant additions,” including Sarah Ashley Cain as Associate Artistic Director and Toby Guinn as its first Chief Development Office…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2024
The distribution of arts and culture funding in the Greater Pittsburgh region is racially inequitable, according to a newly released research report from The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2024
By CAMILLE AGIE Imagine a universe in which Dr. Seuss’s imaginative whimsical world blends with Broadway star power. Beth Malone, recognized for her powerful roles in Fun Home (Tony nomine…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Seated in rocking chairs and shaded from the sun, with a panoramic view of the Allegheny River, it’s easy to see how this place amid the backroads of Longue Vue Club came…
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