Thursday, August 10, 2017
ScareHouse has announced new ways to terrify you when the Etna attraction opens its doors Sept. 15.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:08PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Pittsburgh CLO has shaken up summer with a lineup that includes new additions to its 71-year roster: “Newsies,” “Mamma Mia!” and now, “Million Dollar Quartet.” The season finale …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:30AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
PICT Classic Theatre is on the move again for its upcoming season, performing Shakespeare, Bronte and Wilde in classic Pittsburgh spaces.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:32AMSunday, August 6, 2017
When Ted Brunetti Jr. was growing up in Dormont, the house he shared with his parents and nine siblings had one bathroom — and two pianos.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, August 4, 2017
Elvis Presley’s fame and fandom have thrived since his death on Aug. 16, 40 years ago. Television and the movies have scrambled to capitalize or pay homage to the rock ’n’ roll king, a…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:23PMHe sounds like Elvis and moves like Elvis. And soon James Snyder’s flowing brown hair would be cut short and dyed black, so he will look the part, too.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:19PMArcade Comedy is getting a colorful boost for its move across Liberty Avenue, from 811 to 943, in the Downtown Cultural District.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Pittsburgh native Billy Porter will step back into his Tony Award-winning role as Lola in the Broadway production of “Kinky Boots” Sept. 26 through Jan. 7. He will be joined by his origi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:32PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
A production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at August Wilson’s childhood home is among the highlights of the just-announced Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s 2017-18 season.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:00PMRichard E. Rauh, whose name is synonymous with theater philanthropy in Pittsburgh, is leaving a $1 million gift in his estate for the Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre, the former Stu…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:42AMSaturday, July 29, 2017
Pittsburgh CLO’s “Mamma Mia!” saves the best for last. With performers draped or shrink-wrapped in silver and white, lit by disco balls reflecting prisms of color, the company delivers…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:20PMFriday, July 28, 2017
Pittsburgh CLO’s summer of 2018 will open with the regional premiere of “On Your Feet!” the Emilio and Gloria Estefan musical that is still dancing up a storm on Broadway.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, July 27, 2017
For Erika Henningsen, it's today, Pittsburgh; tomorrow Broadway ... with a stop in between in Washington, D.C. Ms. Henningsen, who was announced Thursday as the star of the Broadway-boun…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:54PMBefore they were Pittsburgh CLO co-stars, Matt Bogart and Sally Ann Triplett were Broadway neighbors.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMark Clayton Southers’ “Miss Julie, Clarissa and John” returns for three performances Thursday through Saturday, July 27-29, as a farewell to Pittsburgh before the play hits the road f…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, July 20, 2017
The August Wilson Center for African American Culture didn’t have to go far to find its new CEO and president. After a three-year search, the board on Thursday named Janis Burley Wilson to…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:45AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Until Saturday, August Wilson was attached in name only to the Downtown building that dominates Liberty Avenue between Smithfield Street and William Penn Place.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:38PMIt was a David-and-Goliath story a newsman should have loved: A gutty army of street urchins brings New York to a standstill and a tyrant to his knees.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:45AMBusiness as usual for a theater company in summer might mean time off or prepping for the fall season.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMBricolage Productions’ “Enter the Imaginarium,” two theatrical escape rooms in Harmar, recently reached two milestones.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, July 6, 2017
Before “Hamilton” made “Immigrants, we get the job done” a viral catchphrase, there was “In the Heights” to set Lin-Manuel Miranda down the path to Broadway and hip-hop history b…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, July 2, 2017
Andy Warhol and Truman Capote were BFFs for a time. The king of pop art from Pittsburgh and the writer of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood” who grew up in Alabama, click…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, June 27, 2017
Vivian Reed was thinking it had been a long time, too long, since she had appeared on a Pittsburgh stage. Then her phone rang — twice. The first call was an invitation to do an MCG Jazz co…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Mark Clayton Southers’ “Miss Julie, Clarissa and John” returns for three performances Thursday through Saturday as a farewell to Pittsburgh before the play hits the road for North Caro…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:39PMMonday, June 19, 2017
There are so many conversation starters in “The Christians,” you’d better come prepared to stay up late. In fewer than 90 minutes, the questions raised about faith, truth and trust dem…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:43PMFriday, June 16, 2017
Pittsburgh CLO’s “The Little Mermaid” creates an enchanting undersea world with light, color and actors floating above the stage that generates enough of a “wow factor” for all age…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, June 15, 2017
“The Christians” opens with a 20-minute sermon by Pastor Paul, the head of an American megachurch that he has built from a tiny storefront. He has had a revelation, and this is his momen…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Art that inspires emotion and provokes thought and discussion is art at its best.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:22PMBecoming a Disney princess was Diana Huey’s dream as far back as she can remember, but even in her wildest dreams, a role as Ariel in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” seemed out of reac…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, June 11, 2017
August Wilson’s “Jitney” took home best play revival honors and Ben Platt held the audience and a Tony Award in the palm of his deserving hand at the 71st annual Tony Awards on Sunday …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:32PM 
