Sunday, May 29, 2022
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:07PM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2022
By Sharon Eberson It’s good to be the boss, especially when that boss is a fictional version of Motown founder Berry Gordy in Ain’t to Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. The m…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2022
By Sharon Ebderson The nominees for the 31st Annual Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater, this year representing 32 schools in Allegheny County, were announced thi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Thoughts of cabaret nights in Pittsburgh usually conjure the local and national headliners who grace the Greer Cabaret, Downtown. But some familiar names, in a perhaps unfa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:40PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Patrick Jordan is giddy with anticipation these days, having spent much of the past two-plus years keeping up our spirits while working tirelessly toward this moment when b…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:06PM[SHARE]By Sharon Eberson Oh, the places you’ll go. Take Jaquel Spivey, who graduated from Point Park University last year with a degree in Musical Theatre. This year is a Tony Award nominee. For …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2022
A cohort of five Pittsburgh arts groups has created the Talent & Equity Director position and today announced Fatima Bunafoor as the choice to “advance equity and inclusion practices a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
By Sharon Eberson It’s been a long time coming, Richard Thomas onstage as Atticus Finch. He was announced to lead the tour back in May 2019 – that was the second appearance of Pittsburgh…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:22PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Robert Ramirez was named to head the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, one of the most prestigious theater arts programs in the world. Ramirez will be on the job …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:24PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2022
By Sharon Eberson It’s not your typical PICT Classic Theatre offering, The Boys in the Band. Still, as a play that has been heralded as “a true theatrical game-changer,” it certainly f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:26PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Ken Gargaro makes the bold statement that Jesus Christ Superstar in the West End will “inaugurate a new chapter in the history of Pittsburgh Musical Theater.” His own r…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2022
By Sharon Eberson It would be nice if time travel was as easy as saying: “See you later. It’s later.” In Will Arbery‘s Plano, people go from now to then just that quickly. “That su…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2022
By Sharon Eberson The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Children’s Theater Festival marches into its 36th year with a return to in-person festivities May 14-15. Activities and performances by …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:09PM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2022
March 18th to 20th, 2022 By Sharon Eberson My theater card is full these days, and that’s such a welcome feeling. I am getting back into the habit of chronicling my weekend’s entertainme…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:07PM[SHARE]By Sharon Eberson The landmark August Wilson House will celebrate the restoration and public unveiling of August Wilson’s childhood home in the Hill District, with community programming th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s, which completed a Broadway run in January of this year, will lead off City Theatre’s just-announced 2022-23 season branded as “Tastes Like H…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Broadway’s Norm Lewis and Hugh Panaro are coming to Pittsburgh to join Billy Harting in “Lifting Our Voices,” the annual fundraising gala for The Center for Theater A…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:19PM[SHARE]Monday, February 28, 2022
By Sharon Eberson When the going gets tough, there’s no one like a theatermaker for getting the job done. Even before the pandemic shut down live theater, podcasts such as City Theatre’s…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:27PM[SHARE]By Sharon Eberson In his latest musical venture in Pittsburgh, Theron Brown sees himself as a link in the jazz chain that stretches from Detroit to Pittsburgh. A circa-1949 jazz club in the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 20, 2022
By Sharon Eberson If you’ve wondered what Neil Haskell’s been up to in the 15 years since he finished third on Season 3 of So You Think You Can Dance, look no further than the biggest mu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 15, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Karen Akers, all slender 6 feet of her, appeared on stage late Monday night in a high neck-to-floor rose red dress, a human Valentine to the art of cabaret. The performer j…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:51PM[SHARE]Monday, February 14, 2022
By SHARON EBERSON New Horizon Theater is in the midst of its 30th season, and it’s first with the designation “Pittsburgh Cultural Treasure.” The Heinz Foundation bestowed the honor in…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:53PM[SHARE]Friday, February 11, 2022
By Sharon Eberson Karen Akers was honing her song list just a few days ahead of her Valentine’s Day cabaret, but she was sure of one thing: It’s all about love. Akers is up next for two …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 2, 2022
By Sharon Eberson More than 30 years ago, we couldn’t get enough of Pretty Woman, which ranks among the highest-grossing rom-coms of all time. With a title taken from one of the most popul…
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