Sunday, May 7, 2017
Your tickets to the PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series for next season took a step up in price, but a look at the big picture shows you are probably getting a bargain on the best seats when c…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
Voices will be raised Saturday in Pittsburgh, New York, Los Angeles and other cities nationwide to inaugurate The Monologue Project, an initiative aimed at celebrating Women of the African D…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:30PM[SHARE]Alan Stanford is on the phone, explaining that he is standing in the middle of an Irish cottage in the middle of the Union Project in Highland Park.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company introduces its third world premiere of the season with "Hercules Didn't Wade in the Water" by Michael A. Jones.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The buzz surrounding the recent Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" and its depiction of teenage bullying and suicide can trace its lineage, on page and screen, to "The Perks of Being a Wallflow…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2017
In baseball terms, a couple of Pittsburghers were among the heavy hitters picked for Broadway's all-star lineup when nominations were announced Tuesday morning for the 71st annual Tony Award…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Billy Porter, the Pittsburgh native and Tony and Grammy Award-winning star of "Kinky Boots," will be honored at the 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards May 6 in New York.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:55PM[SHARE]Friday, April 21, 2017
Pittsburgh CLO held a sneak peek of a new music festival that will bloom in Pittsburgh next spring, with the emphasis on small-scale shows and nurturing the next generation of writers.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
The story behind the play opening at Off the Wall Productions Friday and attempts to stage it are as compelling as the play itself.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Zach Grenier is so eager to share how he wound up in Pittsburgh, he begins to answer with the word "How ..." barely hanging in the air. The star of "The Good Wife," who played divorce lawyer…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2017
It's been a quite the season for outrageous comedies at City Theatre, and let's face it, we can all use a good laugh.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The riveting modern musical "Fun Home" provides a fresh point of view on what Hollywood might label "a coming-of-age" or a "coming out" story. It's both, plus a family drama with a sense of …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
"Fun Home" pushes boundaries with a contemporary story that earns a place in the evolution of musical theater. Looking back, Rodgers & Hammerstein never took the easy road " their beauti…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 6, 2017
"Trainspotting" writer John Hodge has mined a nugget of Russian history to address art vs. tyranny in "Collaborators," a surrealist play about the time dissident writer Mikhail Bulgakov prod…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
Kelli O'Hara, a six-time Tony Award nominee and a winner in 2015 for "The King and I," will headline a Trust Cabaret special concert Sept. 25 at the August Wilson Center, part of the 2017-18…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 2, 2017
Every musical revival worth redoing again and again meets the requirement of a message that never goes out of date, a well-told story, beautiful music and, if it's going to stand the test of…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 29, 2017
The Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company production of Mark Clayton Southers' "Miss Julie, Clarissa and John" is hitting the road this summer, when the original cast will perform the play …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Most of us know something of Oedipus, who fulfills a prophecy by unwittingly killing his father and marrying his mother. Sophocles' cautionary tale about hubris and destiny in ancient Greece…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
Hamilton" is on its way to Pittsburgh, but you will have to wait until the 2018-19 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh season.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2017
Paige Davis is coming home for the summer to star in the Pittsburgh premiere of "Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage" for CLO Cabaret.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
"Dreamgirls" dramatizes an era when Motown ruled the airwaves, girl groups were all the rage and the power was in the hands of the men who ran the music machine.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Judy Kuhn, most recently seen on Broadway in "Fiddler on the Roof," is a four-time Tony nominee for "Fun Home," "She Loves Me," "Chess" and "Les Miserables," but on Monday night in Pittsburg…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2017
The annual Bricolage Urban Scrawl is back for its 12th mad dash to the finish line to create new works in 24 hours. Six playwrights take a bus ride on Friday, and the race is on. The writers…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
Ted Pappas will step down as producing artistic director of Pittsburgh Public Theater when his contract is up on Aug. 31 of next year, leaving on his own terms after 18 years as the company'…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Pittsburgh Public Theater has had five programming and/or artistic leaders who have held various titles in its 42 years " Ben Shaktman (1975-1982), Larry Arrick (1982-84), William T…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]An unbendable rule of museums is that you can look, but you'd better not touch, and ever-watchful security guards are there to make sure we follow the rules.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Pittsburgh Musical Theater's ambitious 25th season continues with "Dreamgirls," a dream come true for actor Jason Shavers and a reflection of the company's commitment to diversity.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE] 
