Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Aaron Galligan-Stierle beamed through the Zoom screen when asked if he was familiar with the score to Sunday in the Park with George. He will play the show’s two artists named George – o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:59PM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2025
If there is such a thing as the “best hangman,” then it stands to reason that there is a second best.
Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy, "Hangmen," is based loosely on the well-chronic…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
An impossible task, it would seem to be, choosing symphonic soundtracks and creating a concert representing the breadth of movie music. It may be stating the obvious, but a good place to st…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:19AM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2025
Kathleen Marshall, the three-time Tony Award-winning director/choreographer who grew up in Pittsburgh, is now an inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame. Her name will be inscribed on the wal…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2025
Quantum Theatre brings director Joanie Schultz's gender-swapped adaptation of "The Seagull" to picturesque Chatham University. "What a gift to have somebody say, ‘Great, let's do it,’”…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:55AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2025
The transformation of Pittsburgh Musical Theater got off to a smashing start – a wall-breaking ceremony on July 9, with Mayor Ed Gainey and County Executive Sara Innamorato striking the bl…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2025
City Theatre has revealed the winners of the 2025 Young Playwrights Contest, an annual regional competition for grades 7-12. The Young Playwrights Festival’s public performances will take…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:04AM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2025
Juan Rivera Lebron has been hired to chair the Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts’ Department of Theatre, beginning July 1. In addition, the announcement on June 23, 202…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Pittsburgh Musical Theater turns 35 with a six-show 2025-2026 season, starting with the popular gorefest "Evil Dead the Musical," and ending with the premiere regional production of Tony Awa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2025
Pittsburgh CLO is bringing the Lerner & Loewe musical "Camelot" back for the seventh time, to lead off its 79th summer season, and the legend of King Arthur and the Round Table couldn’…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States, commemorating the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the final enforcem…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre’s third annual Bards From the Burgh series will feature four readings of new works by local playwrights. Each year, PICT selects one play from the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:24PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
I watch the Tony Awards with Pittsburgh in mind, because the pipeline of talent between here and Broadway is, hands-down, among the region’s chief exports. It also is the awards ceremony t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has announced the inaugural naming of Heinz Hall’s stage as the Simmons Family Stage, honoring contributions of $50 million – including the PSO’s larg…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Quantum Theatre, Shakespeare and Carrie Furnace will continue their triple-threat collaboration – innovative company, The Bard and a historic site – with "The Tempest," set for the summe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
The Chief is coming to the Pittsburgh Playhouse for the 2025-2026 Playhouse Presents season. The popular solo play about Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. returns Downtown to kick off 2026 at…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2025
A $10 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation – "among the largest philanthropic gifts to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in its four-decade-history" – has helped the nonprof…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:58AM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2025
The "Jaws"-inspired play "The Shark Is Broken" rides a wave of excitement into Braddock, buoyed by "Jaws" fever and three Patricks: Patrick Jordan, Patrick Cannon and Quinn Patrick Shannon.
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Co-stars Becki Toth and Allan Snyder Dish on Front Porch Theatricals’ First Production of 2025 By SHARON EBERSON When the musical Baby opened on Broadway in 1983, Frank Rich of The New Yor…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2025
The nominees for Pittsburgh CLO’s 34th annual Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater, recognizing 34 participating schools in Allegheny County, were announced on M…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Speaking of fabulous … when Patina Miller graced the stage with "Fabulous, Baby!" from "Sister Act," there wasn’t a doubter in the Greer Cabaret Theater audience that they were in for a …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Springtime for performing arts in the Pittsburgh region has come in like a lion and continues to roar as April gives away to May, with theaters either getting ready to close up shop for the …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2025
Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 5-8, moves to Strip District for 2025, while future Pittsburgh Cultural District home Arts Landing is under construction.
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON The new play Art of Wise opens with a heart-stopping scenario, then turns back the clock for a lyrical, gripping buildup to a fateful faceoff, during an enslaved man’s de…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2025
NEW 3-PLAY SUMMER FESTIVAL WILL HONOR AUGUST WILSON A newly minted three-play festival, titled the August Wilson American Century Cycle Experience, will run for six weeks this summer, said P…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON For 10 years, RealTime Arts – emphasis on the “real” – has set its creative sights on the people of Pittsburgh, their border-busting roots, and their place in the f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:35PM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s 2025 Jesus Christ Superstar opens with the leather-clad Treasure Treasure as Judas, frozen in the spotlight with an electric guitar. That alb…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:22PM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2025
The annual Pittsburgh Regional August Wilson New Voices Monologue Competition, presented by the Bill Nunn Theatre Outreach Project, takes place Monday, March 31, 2025, at the Manchester Craf…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Colleen Hammond is currently a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater, in partnership with American Theatre magazine. By COLLEEN HAMMOND The haunting jangle of an accordion…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 22, 2025
Mingsi Ma is a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater, in partnership with American Theatre magazine. By MINGSI MA Pittsburgh Opera’s new production of the renowned Madam…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:53PM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced a three-show 2025-2026 subscription season, featuring a raucous comedy, an adapted classic and a Pulitzer Prize-winner, plus the ann…
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