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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Past PG Performers of the Year by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

2014 – Patrick Jordan: “A Steady Rain” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” (barebones productions). 2013 – Dana Michele Griffith: standout roles in seven plays at five different…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM

2016 PG Performer of the Year: James FitzGerald by Christopher Rawson and Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Theater is one place where evil really pays off, and no one had a more loathsome, villainous pair of leading roles to play on Pittsburgh stages in 2015 than James FitzGerald. His rise to the…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

New year brings about opportunity for cultural resolution by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The new year will open Friday with a blank slate and so much opportunity. Here are some New Year’s resolutions to consider from our cultural and style writers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazett…

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Sunday, December 20, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015

Quantum Theatre gets $10,000 by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a $10,000 Art Works grant to Quantum Theatre.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Saturday, November 28, 2015

5 Things We are Loving This Week, Nov. 28, 2015 by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Just don’t call them ‘Jofia’: Mt. Lebanon native Joe Manganiello and “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara tied the knot last Sunday night at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach, F…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Kenneth Branagh headlines 2016 PG London Theater Trip by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The 2016 Post-Gazette Critic’s Choice theater tour heads to London March 6-13, when the daffodils and magnolias will be in bloom. Among palaces, street life, museums, shops, cathedrals and…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Monday, November 2, 2015

Quantum leader and documentarian awarded $15,000 arts prizes by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Quantum Theatre founder Karla Boos and multidisciplinary artist Brett Kashmere will receive this year’s Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards, a recognition of excellence that comes w…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:12AM
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Saturday, October 24, 2015

5 things we are loving this week, Oct. 24 by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Never-ending tale of “Star Wars”: Let’s go back to the future with Bill Murray as lounge singer Nick Winters on “Saturday Night Live,” circa 1978, and see how prescient he was abou…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Saturday, October 17, 2015

5 Things We Love This Week, Oct. 17 by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Magnum Opus: Bill the Cat is back! As is Opus the penguin, Milo and Steve Dallas, who we’re betting still has the emotional maturity of a coat rack. After 25 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning …

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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Friday, October 9, 2015

Jay Leno books stand-up gig at Heinz Hall in March by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

No joke — busy Jay Leno is bringing his stand-up road show to Heinz Hall March 5.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:23AM
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

'Chicago' out, 'The Drowsy Chaperone' in for Point Park's musical theater season by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Chicago” has been replaced by “The Drowsy Chaperone” in the March 18-27 slot of Point Park University Conservatory Theatre Company’s 2015-16 season. Broadway’s long-running…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:59PM
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015

India in Focus: Six weeks of cultural events by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Dance, theater, music and visual art will be showcased as part of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s India in Focus, a multidisciplinary program beginning Friday and running through Nov.…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Friday, September 18, 2015

'Flashdance' musical back on Oct. 25 by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Flashdance the Musical," which had its world premiere in Pittsburgh in January 2013 and has been touring the country ever since, returns for one day only, 3 p.m. Oct. 25, at Heinz…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Thursday, September 17, 2015

RADical Days open doors to local culture by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The 14th annual RADical Days begin Saturday and run through Oct. 11, with more than 60 of the region’s cultural assets offering free admissions or programs.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

2015-16 Trust Presents runs gamut from 'India in Focus' events to 'Evil Dead' musical to The Tenors by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

There will be blood -- and music and dancing and much more during the 2015-16 Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents series. "Evil Dead the Musical" includes a Splatter Zone and is amo…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:16PM
Friday, August 28, 2015

Viola Davis, Denzel Washington reportedly collaborating on 'Fences' movie by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Denzel Washington will direct Viola Davis in a movie version of August Wilson’s “Fences,” the Tony Award-winning actress told The New York Times.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:11PM
Friday, August 21, 2015

Princeton Review ranks CMU No. 1 theater school by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Princeton Review has named Carnegie Mellon University the nation’s top college theater program in a poll of 136,000 students at 380 top colleges.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
Monday, August 10, 2015

Off the Wall postpones premiere of 'I Won’t Be in on Monday' by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Off the Wall Productions has postponed the world premiere of Anne Stockton’s one-woman show “I Won’t Be in on Monday” due to an illness in the playwright’s family.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:10PM
Sunday, August 9, 2015