Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The free featured concerts that are a highlight of the 10-day Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 2-11 in the Pittsburgh Cultural District, have been announced by the Pittsburgh Cul…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2023
The August Wilson New Voices Competition crowned its 2023 top three in Pittsburgh Monday night at the O’Reilly Theater. The city-wide monologue contest is open to all Pittsburgh high sch…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2023
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company continues its 20th anniversary season with its second premiere in a row. Next up at the newly anointed Madison Arts Center in the Hill District is Pyra…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2023
By MARIA SCIULLO Everything about Little Lake Theatre is about family. Currently mounting its 75th season at the Canonsburg, Washington County barn across the bridge, the spirit of founder W…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:45PM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2023
While the Greer Cabaret Theater makeover is ongoing, the Trust Cabaret Series continues tonight at the O’Reilly Theater with award-winning singer Carole J. Bufford. In The New York Times,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2023
‘A Christmas Story’ Returns for the Holidays Pittsburgh Public Theatre has announced three shows for the 2023-24 season, opening September 19 with the world-premiere production Billy Str…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2023
The weather has given us only hints of spring, but here’s some news to warm you up. The 19th season of Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks gets under way next month with the 10th annual We…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Monday, March 13, 2023
Newcomers include Mrs. Doubtfire and Girl From the North Country, plus revivals of The Wiz, Company and more By SHARON EBERSON And the answers are … For those of us who followed and solv…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2023
The contemporary play company also boasts a musical collaboration with Pittsburgh CLO, plus an Andy Warhol trip, the post-Pride Benets and more By SHARON EBERSON Fat Ham, the 2022 Pulitzer P…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2023
The new musical ‘Shantytown’ is now scheduled to open on March 17 at Madison Arts Center. The following story about the construction of the venue has been updated to reflect the postpone…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2023
Point Park alum Jana Larell Glover is an alternate for three lucky queens in the national tour of the ‘concert spectacle’ By SHARON EBERSON Welcome to the Queendom of SIX, where history …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:59PM[SHARE]Co-stars Evelyn Hernandez and Laurie Klatscher the play about feuding neighbors By SHARON EBERSON Native Gardens is a play about neighbors learning to get along, so you just know it was dest…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2023
‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ added as the season’s August Wilson play The new musical Shantytown. The Ballad of Fr. James Cox by Ray Werner marks a new era for Pittsburgh Playwrights…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Surely you’ve at least heard of The Chronicles of Narnia, among the widely read books in any language. The fantasy series emerged from the pen of C.S. Lewis, a Christian …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Take a family tragedy from Greek mythology, pepper it with Shakespeare most foul and a Tarantino revenge fantasy, tie it together with the unbreakable bond of twin sisters,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:58PM[SHARE]March has come in like a lion for Pittsburgh theater-going, and the roar only builds as the month marches on. March 2nd through 4th, Thursday through Saturday last week, there was so much to…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The 29th annual Shakespeare Monologue and Scene Contest at Pittsburgh Public Theater reached the Showcase of Finalists on Monday, with the winners announced today. Finalists of the 2023 Shak…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Once has a special place in David Toole’s career, and his heart. For an actor-singer-musician, it combines all those things in an unconventional romantic story. “And I…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2023
If you follow Pittsburgh theaters on social media, you know that casting news has been coming at a fast-and-furious pace, with City Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater each announcing the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:25PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON NEW YORk, N.Y. — Picture this: Shubert Alley, in the heart of Times Square. At one end, there’s the 1,500-seat Shubert Theatre on 44th Street, across the street from Sa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
The National High School Dance Festival, the first in three years, will return to Point Park University’s Downtown campus March 1-5, with 1,200 students from more than 70 high schools acro…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON The Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre announced today that PICT will return, with Elizabeth Elias Huffman as its new artistic director.Huffma…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Bee … Before “it’s showtime” in Pittsburgh, before summoning the fast-talking scoundrel from the Netherworld, let’s conjure a couple of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 18, 2023
Here’s musical theater casting news to look forward to, from Pittsburgh Musical Theater and Front Porch Theatricals: ‘Once,’ Pittsburgh Musical Theater Husband and wife David Toole a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:35PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON NEW YORK, N.Y. — My return to New York after more than three long years away was a three-day, four-show whirlwind (reviews to come) that had to include time for the newes…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON Spring is in the air, and not just because of the mild temperatures. High school musical theater season is underway. While many of those talented teens are in competition f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:50PM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2023
Award-winning Broadway star Rema Webb, fresh from The Music Man on Broadway, headlines the annual Center for Theater Arts‘ One Night Only gala at Heinz Hall on March 11. The Clairton nati…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2023
By SHARON EBERSON If you are seeking further proof that Shakespeare is a universal language, pliable to different cultures, aesthetics and genres, look no further than the O’Reilly Theater…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2023
By Sharon Eberson New Horizon Theatre opens Black History Month with American Menu, the story of five women working in the kitchen of a segregated diner in a Texas town, circa May 1968. Each…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Demeatria Boccella weaves cultural touchstones into costumes for Pittsburgh Public’s all-Black production By Sharon Eberson This enchanting moment has been 20 years in the making for Demea…
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