DNAWORKS looks to create a unique identity in Fort Worth and Pittsburgh by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Quantum Theatre announces new executive director as subscriptions rise by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland closed for renovations until 2024 by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Cuts in Chautauqua's opera and arts programs provoke donor strike and high drama by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Playhouse appoints new managing and artistic director by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A Pittsburgh opera company is reinventing itself in the wake of poor attendance and financial turmoil by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh’s arts landscape is struggling to stabilize in the wake of the pandemic and low attendance.

Adapting to survive: Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, one of the oldest in the country, launches its final summer festival Friday by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble is taking drastic steps to insure its future.

Key funding: Pittsburgh’s music groups must play to foundations’ tunes to survive by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh symphony music donate tickets foundations arts funding diversity

Review: At the Pittsburgh Symphony, new music about steel forging is wonderfully cinematic — later, the ballet joins for a stunning 'Bolero' by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Symphony’s latest premiere was a musical depiction of the steel-making process.

Pittsburgh's symphony and ballet partner to bring Ravel's brief, maddening 'Bolero' to life by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Composer Maurice Ravel’s music was popular in his lifetime, but audiences grew came to associate him primarily with one tune: “Bolero.”

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 1,200 students have a new dean by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is adding a new position to allow for greater focus on the school’s pre-professional offerings.

NEA awards $285,000 in grants to Pittsburgh arts organizations by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Review: When a small opera company stages 'Macbeth,' the witches crackle by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Concentrating resources on the musicians rather than attempting to fully stage a production could help improve quality.

Catch these classical music and dance events all summer around Pittsburgh by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Review: After an opera about America's failings, Pittsburgh police disarm a man with a knife by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Opera's season finale explores political resonances from the 1985 MOVE bombing by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“We Shall Not Be Moved” originally premiered in 2017 is set in North Philadelphia in the abandoned headquarters of the MOVE organization.

Review: An hourlong, brilliantly meta, must-see show is live at Pittsburgh Opera by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The underbelly of the internet remains a dark place... In 2017, the Russian Duma criminalized the creation of pro-suicide groups.

Two Russians livestreamed a standoff with police in 2016, and now it's an opera. Sort of by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“In opera, if we end up telling new stories in old ways we haven’t gotten ourselves much farther down the road.”

4 openings, 800 young applicants: The Pittsburgh Ballet holds grueling open auditions by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It was audition day at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, which set a recent record with the “Nutcracker,” with around 32,000 tickets sold.

Review: A smart new series at the symphony seeks to introduce listeners to classical music — it needs polish by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

This wasn’t a typical concert, where listeners sit in silence. It was more interactive — at times for better and at times for worse.

New play 'Perseverance' captures jeweler's memories of the Holocaust and new life in Pittsburgh by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In the 1970s, Melvin Goldman bought a tape recorder and talked through his memories of his early life and the Holocaust...

A new immersive play opening in Pittsburgh throws shareholders on the devil's mercies by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The play sounds a bit like a cross between a murder mystery, an art installation and a reality TV show.

Review: Pittsburgh Opera's latest is a must-see, on par with cult classics by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It’s a bit like if Shakespeare drafted a mistaken identity plot and threw in some infanticide on a ghastly whim.

Review: The Pittsburgh Symphony married music and religious tradition — it was a touch unsettling by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mozart didn’t finish the “Requiem” before his death at the age of 35.

Commentary: Does anyone read 'expert' music reviews anymore? by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Even the classical fans that still attend concerts can’t easily articulate why they like a Beethoven symphony.

Ahead of his Pittsburgh Symphony appearance, 'White Lotus' and 'Amadeus' actor F. Murray Abraham discusses musicality in acting by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

This week, Murray appears with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Mozart’s “Requiem,” his final — unfinished — composition.

Two Pittsburgh orchestras to play musical tales of trickery and devilry this weekend by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For Attack Theatre's intimate upcoming show, 'selling out' the hall is only 100 people — does size matter? by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Attack Theatre’s next show is “Behind Ourself Concealed,” which features contemporary dance set to a variety of jazz, folk and world music.

Pittsburgh Opera's 2023-24 season highlights the distinction between operas and musicals by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The opera on Wednesday announced its lineup for the 2023-24 season which includes “The Barber of Seville” and other favorites.

Pittsburgh arts organizations oppose plan to raise visa fees, which could hamper showcasing international talent by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A proposed increase in visa application fees could threaten a core practice of American arts organizations.

Pittsburgh's ballet's next season has fairy tales and a Holocaust-themed world premiere by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s next season includes a regular blend of story ballets and mixed repertory programs.