Sunday, March 12, 2017
With the return of spring, you can be sure that a fresh crop of visual arts events will be sprouting. Here are some of the most promising.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:42AMThursday, January 26, 2017
The true story of the French revolutionary soldier was so grotesquely dramatic, we knew it had to be told – with puppetsWhen we first came across the story of Tarrare – a perpetually hun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Choosing the Post-Gazette Performer of the Year is never easy, and in the award’s 33rd edition, it was especially challenging. In 2016, audiences saw a number of superb ensembles at Pittsb…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, December 23, 2016
The New Year on Pittsburgh stages kicks off with “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” -- one of the best plays of the decade -- arriving at the Benedum Center on Jan. 3.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:44AMFriday, November 25, 2016
NEW YORK — Times Square was blanketed in Pittsburgh black and gold on Nov.16, when 130 Western Pennsylvanians showed their true colors and gathered for a photo that celebrates our region�…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:22PMSaturday, October 8, 2016
More than 20 artists have withdrawn from this weekend’s Open Studios STL presented by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The moves come amid criticism of a racially charged exhibit at the …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:32AMSaturday, August 27, 2016
With the change in seasons come new and notable exhibitions for St. Louis museums and galleries.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:30PMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Veteran theater actor Ken Page, who plays the regal African king Amonarso in the Muny’s current production of “Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida,” stepped out of character at Tuesday ni…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:37PMMonday, June 6, 2016
National Post theatre critic Robert Cushman and his son Mitchell Cushman, who is directing adaptations of Shakespeare's histories, discussed the Bard and his works
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:43AMSaturday, March 5, 2016
Missouri History Museum will display more than 60 dresses for the exhibition"Little Black Dress: From Mourning to Night."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:20PMSunday, January 17, 2016
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 12:00AMThursday, June 18, 2015
July 9 at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End BAFTA Award-winning writer and actor Stephen Merchant makes his West End debut in Richard Bean’s comic two-hander The Mentalists, runni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMWednesday, June 3, 2015
Among candidates for a Tony Award for best musical, which carries the most economic clout, one of the favorites is “An American in Paris.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, May 25, 2015
And . . . performances I'd gladly watch again: Michael Hayden. Doing extraordinary double duty for the Shakespeare Theatre Company as Richard II and Henry V, Hayden confirmed his status as a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMThe numbers are in and this year's highest-grossing tours belong to rock veterans Bon Jovi, Roger Waters, AC/DC and U2, Pollstar reports.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMSignature Theatre is hosting "Pride Night" on Friday for members of the LGBT community. The event will showcase a performance of "Sunset Boulevard" at 8, followed by a one-hour reception wit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMThe sounds of the suburbs Orchestras may be part time, but they're passionate. E2
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMAfter staging impromptu mini-performances around town, playing percussion on trash cans and pipes at Union Station, for example, the cast of the Jam Theatricals production of "Stomp" has sho…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMTo mark the 10th anniversary of Michael M. Kaiser's tenure as president of the Kennedy Center, the celebrants have gathered a few of his favorite people.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company's production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMGeorgetown University, with Arena Stage, is holding a Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival through April 16. Among highlights:
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMThe performing arts are burgeoning in suburban Washington despite the region's economic struggles.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMSunday, May 24, 2015
NEW YORK – The lifeblood of Broadway is musicals, and they’re still pumping away — the old warhorses (“Phantom,” “Chicago”), the young warhorses (“Jersey Boys,”&#…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, April 12, 2015
NEW YORK -- The familiar faces from stage and screen began to arrive on the red carpet a little after 4 p.m. at the Palace Theatre, where “An American in Paris” made had its officia…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:18PMThursday, July 17, 2014
Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's wryly ac…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:16PMSaturday, March 15, 2014
If you were going to reinvent dinner theater for the digital age, the first thing you'd do is get rid of the theater. Delete: singing Mormons. Insert: computer-generated animation, multichan…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:01AMMonday, April 4, 2011
As a Manhattan-born teenager at the High School of Art & Design on East 57th Street, I was star-struck. I would go to a Broadway show whenever I could afford it. I practically lived at t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:24AM 
