Wednesday, December 6, 2017
This weekend, there will be two scandalous Victorian shows at The Frick Pittsburgh: the “Undressed” exhibition organized by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, and “Wilde at the F…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Ahead of her interview to become artistic director of Pittsburgh Public Theater, Marya Sea Kaminski took a stealth trip from Seattle to take the measure of the Steel City. She had been told …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:28PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Kinetic Theatre’s latest production debunks the notion that “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” In the case of “Love, Love, Love,” what happened in Vegas is about to happen in…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:32PMMonday, November 27, 2017
Front Porch Theatricals’ seventh season of musicals brings “A New Brain” and “Grey Gardens” to the New Hazlett Theater during the summer of 2018.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:29PMMonday, November 20, 2017
No need for 3D to keep it real when you can see it live. Here are some ways to give the gift of being there:
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:03PMSunday, November 19, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
“The Color Purple” might as well be ripped from the headlines of 2017, so prescient is the early 20th-century story of abuse and retribution, redemption and forgiveness. Brimming with po…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:22PMOn Light Up Night, here are 12 holiday-themed stage shows leading up to First Night:
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Lucie Arnaz doesn’t hold back in concert, not in her singing, her passion, her warmth, her revealing banter ... Well, there were a couple of times Monday night when she started stories and…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:17AMThursday, November 9, 2017
When Dahlak Brathwaite decided to tell his story as a play with a hip-hop edge, he couldn’t see the connection between his music and theater that seems so obvious to him now.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIt was freshman year when seven Carnegie Mellon School of Drama students gathered to figure out how they might tell a compelling ghost story. They had a week before they would present that s…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
People think they know Lucie Arnaz because they believe they knew her parents, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who spent decades on our TV screens, inventing and perfecting the television sitco…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:14PMCostume designer Susan Tsu and visual artist Sarika Goulatia are the winners of this year’s Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards, recognizing the works and achievements of one establ…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:38AMThursday, November 2, 2017
A hint that Arcade Comedy Theater had room to grow was when it had to rent additional spaces to accommodate all of its activities.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:04PMThe ravages of World War I on the other side of the trenches made Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 novel "All Quiet on the Western Front” a sensation everywhere but Germany, where it w…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Matt Bomer will make his Broadway debut, joining fellow Carnegie Mellon graduate Zachary Quinto of Green Tree, Jim Parsons and Andrew Rannells for a limited 2018 run of “The Boys in the Ba…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:53PMThe just-married couple’s first dance was to Elvis Presley’s “I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You.” It was an appropriate choice for the venue. The dance and the “I d…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:30AMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Lily Tomlin called “Xanadu” one of the “giddiest, silliest, sweetest stage musicals you could ever hope to see” in introducing the 2008 nominee at the Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:56PMIn the Pittsburgh premiere of Tom Stoppard’s latest play, Quantum Theatre employs every tool in its creative arsenal as it paves the way to ponder “The Hard Problem.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:30AMThursday, October 26, 2017
Quantum Theatre invites you to join them in wrestling with “The Hard Problem,” Tom Stoppard’s 2015 play that asks tough questions about biology and consciousness, science and faith.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Billy Porter has been cast in the new Ryan Murphy series “Pose” for FX Networks.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:47PMDuring the dozen years Don Wadsworth has been teaching the Business of the Business class for Carnegie Mellon University senior actors, there have been occasional discussions about the casti…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMThe annual collaboration of Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s Richard E. Rauh Conservatory and the Pittsburgh CAPA Orchestra is “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” at the Byham Theater, Down…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, October 19, 2017
At some point in “DODO,” I felt like I was floating. Or was it a waking dream?
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:17PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
“School of Rock the Musical” harnesses the crude-cute appeal of the 2003 Jack Black movie and pumps up the volume for a hard-rockin’, good-time stage comedy.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:56PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
“The Godfather” meets Shakespeare in PICT Classic Theatre’s “Romeo & Juliet.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:26PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Rob Colletti had never heard of W.C. Fields’ warning to “never work with animals or children.” The star of the national tour of “School of Rock” will be at the head of the cl…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, October 13, 2017
By late fall, for the first time in 18 seasons, there will be a new artistic director at Pittsburgh Public Theater. It may take another full season before City Theatre undergoes a similar se…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:10AMThursday, October 12, 2017
You have to believe that nothing can stand in the way of “Xanadu,” the magical musical that has been reimagined for CLO Cabaret and makes its latest debut this weekend.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Off the Wall productions debuts a new play this weekend by writer/actor Anne Stockton and director Austin Pendleton, then sends it on to New York in February as part of the Carnegie company&…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:24AM 
