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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2025
By MARIA SCIULLO Now you see her, now you don’t. And here she is, again. What a treat. Liberty Magic, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust‘s top-notch series of prestidigitations, returns June …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]UPDATE: Due to a scheduling conflict, the March 26 and 27 shows of the Bebento Productions Inc./Daniel Gerroll show DR GLAS have been cancelled. The schedule goes on as planned March 28-29 a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2025
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2025–2026 Pops Season, a lineup that includes performances billed as blending “timeless favorites, thrilling new collaborations and ge…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:42PM[SHARE]By MARIA SCIULLO Now you see her, now you don’t. And here she is, again. What a treat. Liberty Magic, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust‘s top-notch series of prestidigitations, returns June …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2025
BY SHARON EBERSON Catch my interview with Marc Masterson on the CitySpeaks: A New Play Podcast, conducted in advance of Masterson’s return to City Theatre for Birthday Candles, at the Sout…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2025
By PRIA DAHIYA Pria Dahiya is currently a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater, in partnership with American Theatre magazine. Degenerative genetic disorders, alcoholism,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2025
The 31st annual Shakespeare Monologue and Scene Contest Showcase of Finalists was presented by Pittsburgh Public Theater on Monday, February 24, 2025, at the O’Reilly Theater. Along with…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2025
It used to be that Monday nights were a day of rest in the theater world, but more and more, dark Mondays have seen the light. CITY REWINDS: CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS On February 24, 202…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2025
Catching up with Tina Finkelman Berkett, artistic director of the renowned L.A.-based dance company By PRIA DAHIYA Pria Dahiya is currently a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public T…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Pittsburgh Playhouse doubles up with shows at its largest theaters February 19 – 23, 2025. Opening on Thursday in the Playhouse’s Highmark Theatre is Jerry Girls, a revue featuring Jer…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:20PM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2025
Marc Masterson, in announcing his retirement as City Theatre co-artistic director in June, also announced his imminent return as a director. That time has arrived, with the opening March 14,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON When Witch arrives at Carnegie Stage on March 7, it will mark seven years since the team behind the drama Orphans have presented a follow-up theatrical event. Just as befor…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2025
Whatever’s Next, I’m All In With Support for Western PA Duo Kooman and Dimond, the Musical Theater Team Behind ‘Finn’ By SHARON EBERSON The dictatorial new wave at the Kennedy Center…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:11AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
Tony nominee Daniel Jenkins and Tasha Lawrence will star and spar as George and Martha in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The veteran Broadway a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2025
New Horizon Theater returns to Layon Gray’s history plays with the regional debut of his new work about a shameful chapter from history. Layon Gray’s Feed the Beast, opening February 13,…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON Rise up, Pittsburgh. You can now boast, “George Washington sang here.” Hamilton Tony nominee Christopher Jackson is best known for his role as the USA’s Revolutiona…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2025
Current weather aside, Front Porch Theatricals is ready to swing into summer, with the announcement of the casts of its two-show season. First up is Baby, May 16-25, 2025, at the New Hazlett…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON When actor Dihlon McManne reconnected with a friend over coffee and conversation, he was reminded of a play he had seen more than a decade ago. In its debut at the Beverly …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Anya Martin has announced the end of the 15-year-old Hiawatha Project, as the company’s founder exits to pursue her burgeoning playwriting career beyond Pittsburgh. Martin is the founding …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:52PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2025
By SHARON EBERSON At a time when federal funding for the arts is so precarious, I thought I’d tell you a little bit about my past few weeks of attending theater. By the numbers, starting o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council has awarded 36 Southwestern Pennsylvania organization a total of $180,000 to support arts and culture work and programming as part of the Pennsylvania Cou…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2025
Prime Stage Theatre’s 5th annual High School Drama Awards, honoring excellence in nonmusical plays by student theater-makers, proved to be a big night for Pine-Richland High School. At the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast of the backstage drama Trouble in Mind, the 1955 Alice Childress play that debuted on Broadway in 2021, and was nominated for four Tony Award…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:52PM[SHARE]By SHARON EBERSON The actress playing Fanny Brice, Leah Platt at Tuesday’s opening-night performance of Funny Girl, opens the show with, “Hello, gorgeous.” That’s really not fair, to…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2025
This article first appeared in Pittsburgh Magazine. By SEAN COLLIER Comtra Theatre, the community theater organization that has presented plays and musicals in Cranberry for decades, is clos…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Opinion by SHARON EBERSON & GEORGE HOOVER As 2024 comes to a close, here are a few thoughts for 2025. 10: Our loyal readers are cherished, and newbies are always welcome. 9: Here’s h…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 28, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Little Lake Theatre is ready to ring in its 77th season in 2025 with good news not often heard these days. The Washington County company that bills itself as “the region…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:01AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON Award-winning director, author and educator Mel Shapiro, who headed the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and began his professional directing career at the Pittsburgh Playho…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON It’s been a bumpy road to get to the best-of list, with a forecast of potholes and promise for the foreseeable future. So fasten your seatbelts, and let’s go. If achi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2024
By SHARON EBERSON To begin with, descending into the depths of the Stephen Foster Memorial, I was immediately transported into the combined worlds of Dickens and Doyle. With immersive stagin…
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