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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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:53PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2023
The lineup for the 2023 Pittsburgh Humanities Festival will include This American Life host Ira Glass discussing “Seven Things I’ve Learned,” women in hip-hop and other timely presenta…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2023
City Theatre production introduces What the Constitution Means to Me to Pittsburgh By Sharon Eberson Humorous and harrowing are descriptions that don’t usually go hand in hand, but that…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2023
By Sharon Eberson It was never going to be nice and easy, if that’s what you are looking for in a musical. It had to be rough and raw for the theatrical world built around Alanis Morisse…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:01PM[SHARE]Modern revenge myth Is God Is comes to Braddock on February 24 By Sharon Eberson Patrick Jordan’s barebones productions is back in business in Braddock, opening season No, 20 with the reve…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2023
Chris Hoch was joking when he said, “I tend to do a tour about every 10 years.” Since graduating from Carnegie Mellon in 1998 and jumping right into a Pittsburgh CLO ensemble role, tha…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:37PM[SHARE]The nonbinary actor.plays a nonbinary character in the tour of the Alanis Morissette jukebox musical By Sharon Eberson When Jagged Little Pill was in its early days, the role Jade McLeod had…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2023
The award-winning play by Heidi Schreck makes its Pittsburgh debut at City Theatre By Sharon Eberson Tami Dixon wasn’t looking for a big bear of a role when What the Constitution Means to …
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