Thursday, April 5, 2018
Park anything resembling shame at the door, and don’t feel awkward about laughing, even though the subject is alcoholism.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
Pittsburgh theater companies often use artwork as a tool in their storytelling arsenal. Here are some examples on display.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00PMPaul Bernardo awoke from a motorcycle accident to broken ankles, a broken shoulder, broken ribs, a concussion. He was in an ambulance, and he had no memory of the incident or the woman who h…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:00AMTuesday, April 3, 2018
Paul Bernardo awoke from a motorcycle accident to broken ankles, a broken shoulder, broken ribs and a concussion. He was in an ambulance, and he had no memory of the incident or the woman wh…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:34AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
America at the end of the millennium was a place where HIV/AIDS wasn’t necessarily a death sentence. A new generation was waking up to the idea that, with knowledge and drugs such as AZT, …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:09AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
Beverley Bass has seen “Come From Away” 101 times, and she has no intention of stopping there.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:31PMMonday, March 26, 2018
Get ready to celebrate the new year in a big way. “Hamilton” arrives in Pittsburgh and stays for four weeks, Jan. 1-27, 2019.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00PMSunday, March 25, 2018
You know the drill. You follow the rules to the letter and still get shut out of seeing your favorite band or musical the moment tickets go on sale. And if you still want a ticket, there are…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMThursday, March 22, 2018
That number “20” in the “Rent 20th Anniversary Tour” was correct two years ago, when the tour launched to commemorate the 1996 rock musical that reimagined the opera “La Boheme” …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00PMPittsburgh CLO was thinking both big and small when it dreamed up the Spark festival of small musicals and put the plan into action. Now, more than a decade and millions of dollars in t…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:59AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
The extraordinary life of Lorraine Hansberry, the activist and writer of “A Raisin in the Sun,” is showcased in the documentary film “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,” at the August Wilso…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00PMFriday, March 16, 2018
Tony and Emmy winner Lillias White will replace LaChanze in two Trust Cabaret Series concerts April 16.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:48PMPittsburgh joins in the fun happening around the globe March 21, taking a cue from the World Day of Puppetry to have a celebration of its own. Courtesy of the Puppetry Guild of Pittsbur…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:52AMThursday, March 15, 2018
The Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s 10th anniversary season was given a boost Thursday with two grants totaling $200,000.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:53PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Tony Award winner Beth Leavel is among some of the guest artists announced Wednesday for Pittsburgh’s inaugural SPARK musical theater festival.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:49PMMonday, March 12, 2018
Anyone who frequents a neighborhood grocery will recognize it in the set for “Citizens Market.” The vinyl floor, the hand-written signs, the stocked produce stand … it all adds up to a…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
“Heisenberg” is a play that’s all about romantic chemistry, but with a title about a physics theory — the same one that gave “Breaking Bad’s” Walter White his alias ... well, l…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
City Theatre has been running full-steam ahead without an artistic director, but that will change in the coming months. The search to replace Tracy Brigden, who left in June, is being whittl…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:15AMFriday, March 2, 2018
The nightly offering over at CLO Cabaret through Tax Day is a Super Saver special — as in, superheroes who dance and sing and save the day.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:45AMThursday, March 1, 2018
Playwright Cori Thomas describes the theme she turns to time and again as an exploration of otherness. Not just the outsider or the newcomer, but “wanting people to see other as not other.…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:15AMAaron Kleiber used to ride his bike over to his neighborhood Carnegie Library and sneak into the abandoned auditorium. Now that it’s the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall, the stage is his …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMDesi Oakley was in Boston and on the phone as she talked about coming to Pittsburgh as pie maker extraordinaire Jenna, the star-crossed title character in “Waitress.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
You hear the word “overblown” bandied about when it comes to the movie and the live show of “The Bodyguard,” as if that’s necessarily a bad thing.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:01PMPittsburgher Gab Cody was born in Juno, Alaska, moved to Wasilla, Alaska, and was 5 when her parents divorced and she and her mother departed.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Marya Sea Kaminski officially will step into the role of Pittsburgh Public Theater artistic director on Aug. 1, but she is making her presence known even before she steps up to the plate.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00PMMonday, February 26, 2018
Of all the movies that have been gone from screen to stage, you’d think “The Bodyguard” would have been among the swifter transitions and not nearly 25 years in the making.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMFriday, February 23, 2018
Janis Burley Wilson describes her job as leader of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown, as “building a plane while we are flying.” Some of the pieces are alre…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:30AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
The Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures” and Wynn Thomas have a lot in common. When the second Black Bottom Film Festival bestows its Excellence in Cinema Award to production designer T…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMMonday, February 19, 2018
Spring starts in February and lasts into May when it comes to the season’s high school musicals in Western Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:30AMThursday, February 15, 2018
Pittsburgh was Paris to Steubenville, Ohio, native Jeffrey Hatcher when he was growing up. But London was all about Sherlock Holmes.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:30AM 
