By JESSICA NEU Debuting on Broadway in 1970, Stephen Sondheim’s Company, is one of several musicals that underwent a reimagined revival in the 2010s & 20s. The 2021 reimagining brou…
With news about … Casting for Front Porch Theatricals’ Come From Away and Alumni Theater’s Once on This Island, The Theatre Factory’s farewell to Trafford, and Go See a Show goes on.…
Carnegie-based community theater Stage 62 is returning to the Greer Cabaret for the second straight summer, opening the musical Company this week. The initial move from their home at the And…
Kinetic Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s Henry Johnson marks the play’s Pittsburgh debut. It is also only the third production of the work, following its premiere in Los Angel…
By JAMES H. LEWIS The penultimate concert of the Petite Organ Summer series of Westminster Presbyterian Church featured a selection of liturgical music from the Reform Christian repertoire…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of August, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly…
ELECTRIFYING "DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA" As Roberta and Danny, Shannon Donovan and Michael Patrick Trimm provide enough sustained, electrifying performances and raw passion provide enough…
My experience of RealTime Arts’ Equitable Dinner will not be yours. Yet, I can wholeheartedly recommend that you snatch up whatever slots are left for the trifecta of a short play based on…
With news about … Henry Johnson’s David Butler on Robert De Niro and Katharine Hepburgh, the Rogue cast of Assassins, local playwrights honored, WQED New Hazlett documentary. ICYMI: CLO…
By CLAIRE STEVENS Even though it was not a Wednesday, the day the Plastics notoriously wear pink, a sea of pink apparel led me to the doors of the Benedum Center for the opening night of P…
The story of how the third production of David Mamet’s "Henry Johnson" landed at Carnegie Stage, and along with it, David Butler’s return to a hometown stage, follows the on- and off-ram…
Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center in Midland announces a nostalgic 2026-2027 season of musical theater, “bringing back some of our most popular and memorable productions of the past 20 y…
"Mean Girls" Marks the Beginning of the End after 80 years of Pittsburgh CLO Summer Seasons
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of August, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly…
"If this works, if [other independent projects] start to work, to us, it's about proof of concept, that this can be part of the landscape." — Michael Patrick Trimm Pittsburghers know Mich…
REALTIME ARTS' EQUITABLE DINNERS ARE DESIGNED TO MAKE IT "COMFORTABLE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER AGAIN." Originated in Atlanta, Equitable Dinners attracted the attention of RealTime Arts’ cofo…
With news about … Pittsburgh’s theater history, new company’s ‘Assassins,’ Anthrocon on parade, Canonsburg theater, National Opera House grant, PSO Christmas in July, and more ICY…
By HANNAH WING-BONICA Apparently, it’s a rare occurrence to see a concert featuring three tenors. The most famous concert took place thirty-six years ago in Rome, during the World Cup, and…
Ahead of the Pittsburgh premiere of a.k. payne’s BURNBABYBURN: an american dream, the local writer was named Best Playwright for her play Furlough’s Paradise at the 31st annual NAACP The…
By JESSICA NEU The 2026–2027 Mendelssohn Choir season is a combination of riveting and deeply personal pieces, the three-show season features the classic talent and entertainment of the f…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of August, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly…
By JESSICA NEU Despite its reference to an old United States Marine Corps slogan, “A Few Good Men” ranks among the more recognizable monikers in the entertainment industry, even as a sta…
With news about PA Arts Funding; the 2026 Jimmy Awards Local Winner; PSO Summer Soundtracks‘ Music from ‘Arcane’; Pittsburgh Youth Symphony’s New Leadership; and more. ICYMI: PA COU…
AN INSIDE VIEW TO THE FUTURE OF PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER AND PITTSBURGH CLO When their marriage becomes legal sometime this summer, only then will the new name and details of the Pittsburg…
Pittsburgh CLO’s 80th season opener, "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," rides the unstoppable wave of musical standards by one of the 30 greatest living American songwriters, according …
Pittsburgh Musical Theater has announced its 2026-2027 season, with performances at the Gargaro Theater, Byham Theater, and West End Canopy. “This season is an invitation, not just to se…
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has revealed Arts Landing public events through September 2026. In addition to food truck Wednesdays, free happenings throughout the week include music on the D…
By JESSICA NEU Oh my gosh, you guys! Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center concludes its 2025-26 season with Legally Blonde The Musical. Written by Heather Hach, with music and lyrics by …
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of August, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly…
By SHARON EBERSON Karla Boos’ admits her singular vision might at times seem “batshit crazy” to the rest of us. “I do things that I don’t understand, and don’t know how to do,”…
By GUILHERME YAZBEK Upon entering the New Hazlett Theater for Resonance Works’ production of Roméo et Juliette, one is struck by how little there is to see. Four simple platforms cove…
"Hamlet: The Bad Quarto", a script that predates the best-loved published Folio, employs some names, phrasing and layering that resemble an early draft, before the Bard really got going on e…
The BNY Classics season finale featured dancers from Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre By CLAIRE STEVENS The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concluded its BNY Classics season with Appalachian Spring…
By CLAIRE STEVENS The opening of the Summer Company’s production of Our Town is heralded with the sound of a clock chime signaling the significance of the passing of time …
1971 Was One Fine Year: The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated Baltimore in the World Series, Carole King released "Tapestry," and Pittsburgh CLO enlisted a cavalcade of Broadway and local stars, …
It's a busy weekend, Pittsburgh! Check out Call Board for news about: City Theatre's record-breaking 'Hedwig'; Pittsburgh Playwright's 'BURNBABYBURN' reading; Prime Stage on WQED; PSO's Manf…
By MINGSI MA Directed by Connor McCanlus and written by Sean Collier and Renee Rabenold, Closing Time at the Moonside Cafe is an original interactive theater piece that invites audien…
Resonance Works concludes its 13th season with Roméo & Juliette, Charles Gounod’s operatic retelling of Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers and the devastating cost of hatre…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of August, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly…
What happens among four teens in the 2019 play by Alexis Scheer, "My Dear Dead Drug Lord," is the stuff of pubescent histrionics, paranormal activity, and parental nightmares. It would be hy…
PITTSBURGH CLO 80th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: ONE BRIEF SHINING MOMENT During a nostalgia packed night — including the honoring of former CLO intern Stephen Flaherty, the award-winning compose…
INTERVIEW with director JEREMY SEGHERS, who has chosen "HAMLET: THE BAD QUARTO" for his second directorial project in Pittsburgh — after his dramatization of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." T…
When truth is stranger than fiction, in a playwright's hands, it can go a few steps further into bizarro world, or find a pathway to grounded reality. Such is the case of the third annual Li…
BANDALOOP, featured performers at the 2026 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, are hard to pin down — literally. Earlier this week, the troupe known for its "perspective-bending dance"…
It's a busy weekend, Pittsburgh! Check out Call Board for news about: City Theatre's record-breaking 'Hedwig'; Pittsburgh Playwright's 'BURNBABYBURN' reading; Prime Stage on WQED; PSO's Manf…
The cast of "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord," the “ferocious, darkly funny” coming-of-age play opening this weekend at barebones productions, answer questions about their first professional pr…
MANFRED HONECK SIGNS PSO CONTRACT EXTENSION THROUGH 2032-33. Manfred Honeck will become the longest-serving Music Director in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s 131-year history, after …
GREAT NEWS OUT OF CARNEGIE! Claire DeMarco has put her money where her theater dreams are, and partnered with theater artist and administrator Erika Cuenca to save Carnegie Stage, that vita…
By HANNAH WING-BONICA It’s been twenty years since Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home made itself known in the graphic novel scene. It was only ten years later that Bechdel’s work became a hi…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of August, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly…
