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]The story of a spunky orphan who communicates with her benefactor through letters hasn't missed a beat since "Daddy-Long-Legs" hit bookshelves in 1912. The novel was adapted by author Jean W…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2017
After a stirring opening-night performance of "1984," before the audience could catch its breath, Prime Stage Theatre's producing artistic director Wayne Brinda introduced a special guest. R…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2017
In a corner of a room crowded with clothes and accessories is a small clearing with full-length mirrors. Nestled into the space, awaiting the arrival of actor Mitchell Jarvis, is a rack cont…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Billy Porter's "The Soul of Richard Rodgers" is due next month from Bee & El and Sony Masterworks Broadway, and he has already whet fans' appetite with the January rele…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:39AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2017
The 2016 Tony Award-winning play "The Humans" and new play "Heisenberg" set the pace for a 2017-18 season at Pittsburgh Public Theater that boosts the company's reputation for original produ…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 26, 2017
"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" launched playwright Martin McDonagh's career as the Irish king of the deepest, darkest comedies to be seen on a stage and sent the Druid Theatre Company of Galw…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2017
"Ragtime" seemed like an impossible dream of a musical for the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama until its Tony Award-winning composer, Stephen Flaherty, pointed out that the award-…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Richard John Lawrence McMillan was a frequent presence on stages and in front of the camera from his native Canada to Pittsburgh, tackling roles from Hamlet to Oscar Wilde.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2017
Pittsburgh Public Theater's 23rd annual Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest that began Feb. 6 with more than 1,000 student participants culminated Monday night, when winners were crown…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2017
"The Book of Mormon" is back in town, as shocking and hilarious as ever and just as urgent in its representation of people who are worlds apart " fresh-faced missionaries and Ugandans suffer…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
Zach Grenier, who played divorce lawyer David Lee for seven seasons on the CBS drama "The Good Wife," will star as Willie Loman in Pittsburgh Public Theater's "Death of a …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
The sold-out Trust Cabaret series is adding a party night to its 2016-17 season. Jim Caruso's Cast Party, a Monday night mainstay at New York's Birdland nightclub since 2003, will take…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
Brandon Uranowitz has starred in two of Broadway's most heralded musicals in recent memory, but the "American in Paris" and "Falsettos" star still feels he is introducing himself to audience…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
The Pittsburgh Humanities Festival has taken on the theme "Being Human" for the series of events scheduled for March 24-26 at Pittsburgh Cultural District and Oakland sites.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Pump Boys and Dinettes," the down-home musical about good ol' folks who work hard and play harder, has pulled into the Cabaret at Theatre Square to serve up a light-hearted slice of rural l…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Folklore tells us that John Henry was an African-American railroad worker with mammoth strength who, with just a hammer, defeated a mountain and a mechanical drill but died from the effort.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2017
"Woody's Order!" was a title bestowed on Ann Talman the day she was born and, 60 years later, the title of her one-woman show, a theatrical chronicle of the fierce love and hardships she has…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2017
Pain and depression have been Mark Clayton Southers' constant companions as the producer, writer and artistic director of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company navigates life in the world o…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
The lives, dreams and music of the six friends in "Pump Boys and Dinettes" are familiar to Ben Klein, who, like the characters in the Tony-nominated musical, hails from North Carolina.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]You could say Ann Talman has been working on her one-woman show, "Woody's Order!," since birth. "Or you could say before birth, actually," said the actress known for roles on "Seinfeld," "Ge…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2017
As the PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series works its way through the Tony Awards class of 2015, "Something Rotten!" should be remembered as the musical that delivered the longest and…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Two off-Broadway award winners opened in Pittsburgh last week, one set amid the multimedia circus of scripted professional wrestling, the other in the brutal world of early 20th-century boxi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2017
It happens rarely these days, a cast stepping off Broadway to take a show on tour, and "Something Rotten!" is a rare musical " a throwback to crowd-pleasing comedies aimed at belly laughs an…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
Pittsburgh Public Theater's "Twelfth Night" has switched scenes at the start, so you will have to wait until Scene II to hear, "If music be the food of love, play on." What's more, the Shake…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Yes, there are talking, singing gargoyles in the musical stage version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," based on the 1996 Disney animated film. Both were inspired by the 1831 Victor Hugo no…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]The first Black Bottom Film Festival, showcasing African-American contributions to cinema, has been announced for Feb. 24-26 at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Lib…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2017
While August Wilson's "Fences" was on its way to four Oscar nominations, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust was working with Paramount Pictures and director-star Denzel Washington to finalize pla…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:06AM[SHARE] 
