Thursday, July 19, 2018
Kiya Tomlin will be in conversation with the director of the Broadway revival of “Fences” and TV’s “Hairspray” and “The Wiz.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:53PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Highlights of the Lerner & Loewe musical include dancers Garen Scribner and Erica Wong and singing leads Jeff Kready and Eryn LeCroy.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:52PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor and author Louie Anderson returns to his stand-up roots Saturday for a one-night-only appearance at Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:24AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Thursday, July 12, 2018
When Agnes de Mille was pioneering musical theater choreography in the 1940s, she exploded the possibilities of ballet and modern dance, incorporating the grit and swagger of homesteaders to…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMMonday, July 9, 2018
As much fun as “The Full Monty” is — and the musical is a rollicking good time — it’s also a lens into what brought us to this moment.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:09PMSunday, July 8, 2018
The voice coming from the stage at the Stephen Foster Memorial Theater shook Mark Clayton Southers to his core. It was the 1980s, and he was taping a performance of August Wilson’s “Ma R…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:47PMThursday, July 5, 2018
If you had to guess an out-of-towner’s first Broadway show in the early 2000s, you might immediately go for a long-running standard, such as “The Lion King” or “The Phantom of the Op…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:00AMThursday, June 28, 2018
Four years gone, and of course some things have changed for Carnivale Theatrics — for one it has dropped the second “r” from what was Carrnivale.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMThursday, June 21, 2018
Bradley Dean hasn’t stepped foot on a Pittsburgh stage since 2006, when the Carnegie Mellon University graduate appeared here in the touring company of “Spamalot.” He had performed in …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMSunday, June 17, 2018
The “Lights Out Celebration!” for the public to bid farewell to the 85-year-old Pittsburgh Playhouse on Monday is sold out, but if you are going to be in the neighborhood that night, pre…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:00AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Jeff Goldblum invited everyone home for a pool party Thursday, while accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:32PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
It may be that “The Rhythm’s Gonna Get You,” as one of Gloria Estefan’s chart-topping hits declares, but it’s her steamy love story with husband Emilio that brings the heat and the…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:04AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
“The Band’s Visit” winning 10 Tonys is the equivalent of an art house movie collecting 10 Oscars and beating out three cinematic blockbusters.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:09PMMonday, June 11, 2018
Sunday, June 10, 2018
The 72nd annual Tony Awards were ruled by the enchantment of a world of magic and a small town in Israel, as “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two” and “The Band’s Vi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:36PMThursday, June 7, 2018
Brruuuuce! The Boss of Rock ‘n’ Roll and now Broadway, Bruce Springsteen, will receive a special Tony Award Sunday for his one-man show and — set your DVRs now — will perform at the …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:22PMBilly Porter is striking a new pose on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. The magazine’s annual LGBTQ issue features the cast of “Pose,” the new FX drama that boasts TV’s largest cas…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:31PMWhat started as a kernel of “some kind of legacy production” built up over 10 years until “On Your Feet!” — the story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine — l…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:00AMSunday, June 3, 2018
Darren Criss had just delivered his version of "Genie in a Bottle," giving fans at the Benedum Center a hometown jolt with a Christina Aguilera song, when it became apparent he had…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:14AMFriday, June 1, 2018
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Melody Herzfeld of Parkland, Fla., has been named the fourth recipient of the Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre Education Award, co-presented by Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Herzfeld, …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:15PMNasir Butler bops into a Pittsburgh CAPA rehearsal room, smiling and soft-spoken, wearing camo shorts and a T-shirt that gives away why he is there at 10 a.m. on a school day. The logo is fr…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:30AMThe Reduced Shakespeare Company is a company without a building, so it relies on the hospitality of stages throughout the world, including one of its homes away from home, Pittsburgh Public�…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
It’s usually the case with Quantum Theatre that the who and the what come long before the where. In its upcoming season, the avant-garde company has all the “w’s” covered for two of …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:57PMNew theaters, productions and companies of all shapes and sizes are popping up in and around Pittsburgh with a mind-numbing frequency.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00PMSaturday, May 26, 2018
Nasir Butler of Pittsburgh CAPA and Johanna Loughran of Oakland Catholic High School are headed to New York City after winning the top acting awards at Pittsburgh CLO’s 28th annual Gene Ke…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:30PMThursday, May 24, 2018
Between his most recent theater jobs, Marc Masterson spent some time exploring South America and logging 6,000 United States miles in a vintage Airstream trailer. He is finally ready to sett…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:30PM“Building the Wall” opened in New York a year ago this week, six months after Donald Trump was elected. The work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan (”The Kentucky Cy…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Gordon Schwinn is having a rough time of it. He is a songwriter reduced to writing for a puppet named Froggy. Gordo’s a prickly guy anyway, and now he’s having hallucinations — just be…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:41PMThe Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts is back and expanding its scope, adding premieres from the United States — including some from right here at home — for three weeks in the…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:30AM 
