Thursday, August 11, 2022
City Theatre has announced the six winning entries in the 23rd annual Young Playwrights Contest. The regional competition for students in grades 7-12 grants winners the opportunity to have t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:06PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Mitch Swain will retire from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council in March of 2023 after 17 years as the organization’s first and only CEO. Swain took the reins in 2005, w…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Pittsburgh CLO completes summer season 2022 with a production first, the uplifting Sister Act, and its filled with faces familiar to local theatergoers. It’s a delight to…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2022
Luminaries celebrating the long-anticipated grand opening of the August Wilson House on Saturday, Aug. 13, will include Denzel Washington, during a day of events that begins with a ribbon-cu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2022
By SHARON EBERSON Chita Rivera entered coyly onto the Greer Cabaret stage Monday night, but the audience wasn’t having any of it. Fans stood, whistled and applauded for the musical theater…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2022
Point Park University graduate Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters has won the 2022 Terrence McNally Award in playwriting for Acetone Wishes and Plexiglass Dreams. Philadelphian Walters (Class of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2022
Pittsburgh’s Accomplished Wilsonian Actor Makes His CLO and Benedum Debut in ‘Kinky Boots’ By Sharon Eberson What Wali Jamal lacks in enthusiasm, he makes up for in … forget it. When…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Spirit-lifting entertainment is always in too-short supply, but just now, it’s a necessity. Enter Kinky Boots, striding onstage at the Benedum Center to raise you up and …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Quantum Theatre founder and artistic director Karla Boos takes on thee iconic role of Madame Ranevskaya in "The CherryOrchard." I relate to her, in that she's on a different
wavelength," B…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:11PM[SHARE]Alan Stanford has been removed from his job as artistic and executive director of PICT Class Theatre, following an account of alleged sexual misconduct reported in Pittsburgh City Paper. In …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2022
As 'Robin Hood' and 'Love Letters' bring the Pittsburgh Public Theater season to a close, AD Marya Sea Kaminski talks about how her programming is aimed at the warm feeling audiences crave.
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Pittsburgh CLO has announced the full cast that will high step into next week with its first production of Kinky Boots. Previously announced Darius Harper as drag queen Lola, the role that g…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Kylie Edwards, representing Pittsburgh CLO’s Gene Kelly Awards at the 2022 National High School Musical Theatre Awards, was named best dancer among the winners announced …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2022
Families can take a step back to Medieval times and watch as Robin Hood and his Merry Men perform heroic deeds in Allegheny County Parks, thanks to Pittsburgh Public Theater. The Cultural Di…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:19AM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Here’s my weekend in Pittsburgh theater, or, more to the point, so much Pittsburgh theater, so little time … Pittsburgh theater – it’s worth saying a third time –…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2022
By Sharon Eberson From a bona fide Broadway legend to a TikTok sensation, The Drowsy Chaperone’s cast is sprinkled with the marquee names, familiar faces and newcomers that are a trademark…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:35PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2022
By Sharon Eberson The Tony Awards turned 75 with a celebration of youth and experience, the British influence on Broadway and a few surprises along the way. Best actor in a musical went to…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2022
By Sharon Eberson The highest praise for a comedy that strives to honor the French master Moliere is that it pummels hypocrisy and is as thought-provoking as it is laugh-inducing. Simon Brad…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2022
City Theatre has paid tribute to the legacy of Kuntu Repertory Theatre founder and artistic director Dr. Vernell Audrey Watson Lillie by renaming its studio theater in her honor. The former …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will present Mark Clayton Southers’ Savior Samuel at the “world’s largest event in Black theater,” the National Black The…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:12PM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Simon Bradbury and Andrew Paul go way back. So it’s somehow fitting that they both wound up connecting while both were in Las Vegas, even if their artistic collaboration …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:28PM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2022
By Sharon Eberson If you are a member of the Pittsburgh theater community, you know Billy Hartung as a performer; of course, He’s been to Broadway and back. As in back home, that’s back …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2022
August Wilson’s Two Trains Running is running on time for Pittsburgh Public, but How the Hell Did I Get Here? will not pull into the O’Reilly Theater as planned. First postponed from…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:50PM[SHARE]By Sharon Eberson Seven hundred Allegheny County students were singing, dancing, and accepting awards and scholarships last night, marking the return of the Gene Kelly Awards to a razzle-daz…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:14AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Front Porch Theatricals has had to close A Man of No Importance before its final performances this weekend, due to COVID-19 safety concerns. The award-winning musical, fea…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:21PM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2022
Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University has been approved for a $30,000 NEA Grant for Arts Projects to support a portion of its “Shaping the Arts: Black Women and Femme Artists and C…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Witnessing a slasher film from the safe distance between seat and screen is one thing, but just imagine being in the room where it happens when the masked killer strikes. N…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:02PM[SHARE]By Sharon Eberson New Horizon Theater ends its season with One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, a comedy set in 1970s Philadelphia that deals with the clash of values between middle-class and wo…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Tony Award-winner LaChanze, a nominee again this year for Trouble in Mind, is coming to Pittsburgh, one of the stars who comprise the 2022-23 Trust Cabaret Series. Two arti…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2022
By Sharon Eberson It is important, Front Porch Theatricals’ production of A Man of No Importance. Let me explain all the reasons why. It’s going to take a little time, so get comfortable…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]By Sharon Eberson During the epilogue of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations, the actor portraying group founder Otis Williams reminds us that there have been 24 Temp…
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