Wednesday, 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 10:24AMIn the basement below their storefront theater in the Pittsburgh Cultural District, the team at Bricolage Productions has been thinking big.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMSaturday, October 7, 2017
The tempest stirred up “Equus” when it galloped onto the theater scene in the 1970s continues in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s stunningly crafted production, featuring intense performanc…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:06PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts, which celebrated its 30-year anniversary on Sept. 25, is part of the Doors Open Pittsburgh event this weekend.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:37PMMonday, October 2, 2017
Unleash “Seinfeld” on a no-holds-barred cable network, where jokes about rape and vibrators set the tone in a cancer ward, and you have some idea of where the new play at City Theatre is…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:00PMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Ted Pappas marches into his final season as leader of Pittsburgh Public Theater in dramatic fashion, opening with a play that caused a sensation when it burst on the scene in the 1970s.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:27PMPittsburgh Playwrights Theatre will make Eugene Lee a Pittsburgher for a month, when it performs his play “East Texas Hot Links.” Director Montae Russell, who grew up here before heading…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:30AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
If you want to bask in the glow of 70 minutes that flash by in a New York minute, spend some time with Kelli O’Hara.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:44PMAllegheny County’s arts and cultural organizations are in good overall health and continue to be among the nation’s leaders in economic impact on their communities, according to a new st…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:00AMThursday, September 21, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Mark Clayton Southers arrived home from Scotland's Edinburgh Festival Fringe a couple of weeks ago and went right to work on a new season at his Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company an…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Conner John Gillooly will take center stage on Broadway for matinees of “School of Rock — The Musical.” The recent graduate of Point Park University, out of Seneca Valley High School, …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:57PMMonday, September 11, 2017
A white man insists that nine black men perform a song about his sweet home Alabama. You know the one, he tells them. It’s the one he loved hearing as it rose above the cotton fields. “A…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:08PMFriday, September 8, 2017
An all-star Broadway team including Tony Award-winners Billy Porter and Renee Elise Goldsberry and Tony nominee Norm Lewis will gather Oct. 2 and 3 for readings in New Jersey and New York of…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:59PMThursday, September 7, 2017
Rick Maue, a magician and mentalist, is set to give the performance of a lifetime.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
The coming of autumn heralds changes at the top at Pittsburgh Public Theater and City Theatre. Both 43-year-old companies open their 2017-18 seasons as farewells to outgoing, longtime leader…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:17PMJohn Kander and the late Fred Ebb have created an art form of remaking history into groundbreaking musicals.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:45AM1931: On March 25, a fight breaks out between groups of young black and white men on a freight car in Alabama. Nine black youths, age 12 to 19, are arrested, and rape charges are added based…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:45AMFriday, September 1, 2017
The Catechism crowds are rowdiest in Pittsburgh, and that’s just fine with Sister.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Billy Porter is a man of many hats. In fact, he was wearing one Friday during rehearsal for two shows this weekend at Hartwood Acres.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:19PMThursday, August 24, 2017
Billy Porter has a lot to sing about and a lot to say, and he is not holding back.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, August 23, 2017
Magician Lee Terbosic — the guy who performed the Houdini-like stunt with a straitjacket 90 feet up in the air Downtown last November — will be in residence at the Kimpton Hote…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:31AMThe inaugural Carnegie Screenwriters Script & Screen Festival pushes the boundaries from regional to global for a group that has been evolving for more than a decade.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
Pittsburgh universities Carnegie Mellon and Point Park are in the top 10 of schools most represented on Broadway, according to Playbill’s #BwayBacktoSchool list of actors in current shows …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:51PMSunday, August 20, 2017
A new and moving reinvention of “Big Fish” takes a deep dive into repairing a fractured father-son relationship, a story that on Broadway played out with elaborate musical numbers and hi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:53PMThursday, August 17, 2017
Bricolage Production Company and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh will pull back the curtain at the Museums of Art and Natural History for “DODO,” the latest and largest immersive project …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:07PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
It took a few conversations, the right play and 23 tons of dirt to cement a collaboration between Karla Boos and Anne Hamburger, kindred spirits in the creation of site-specific theater.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:45PMDeep into rehearsals for “Big Fish,” Billy Hartung recalled his plans to turn down the starring role in the musical.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMFriday, August 11, 2017
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