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 finali…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:06AMThe gym at the Ace Hotel in East Liberty has been transformed into a, well, gym. More precisely, it’s a place where a Living Legend, a Nature Boy and a Hulk would feel right at home.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMAugust Wilson’s work has long been showered with awards, and since his death in 2005, the Pittsburgh native’s plays continually have been among the most-produced in America.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, January 22, 2017
Tony Award nominee Euan Morton auditioned for the lead of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” with no experience walking in heels. Paul McGill was hired as the tour’s assistant choreographer. …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, January 19, 2017
No one lands a punch in “The Royale,” but that doesn’t mean the play doesn’t pack one.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Tome Cousin recalled a young actor talking about being the token person of color at a final callback for a Broadway show and how the story struck a chord deep in his own experience — with …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSaturday, January 7, 2017
“Fences” already is well on its way to becoming one of the 21st century’s top box-office successes for play-to-screen adaptations.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, January 5, 2017
The dazzling play “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is a visual feast like no other, a panoply of techno wizardry, performance artistry and the pulsing rhythms of a fam…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, December 30, 2016
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” started as an award-winning 2003 novel, with a mouthful of a title inspired by a Sherlock Holmes short story.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe New Year comes in like a lion on Pittsburgh stages, with the Tony- and Olivier Award-winning play “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” headlining a wintry mix that inc…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSaturday, December 24, 2016
“If you live the life,” Rocky Bleier tells us, “you can’t escape the stories.” He’s talking about his Steelers roommate, the ferocious Jack Lambert, but it’s his story we’ve …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, December 22, 2016
Monday, December 19, 2016
Shakespeare wrote in a time when only white men could act in his plays, yet centuries later, his writing still speaks to the human condition.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" will be the next August Wilson play to be brought to the screen by Denzel Washington, according to The Stage, a United Kingdom-based website devoted …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:53PMJust before Thanksgiving and without fanfare, Kevin McMahon re-enlisted as president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Reliable signs that it’s Christmastime in Downtown Pittsburgh include outdoor ice skating and a holiday market, the Horne’s — yes, Horne’s — tree lighting up the night and Pittsbur…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, December 12, 2016
A wide-ranging group of theater artists will hold a town hall meeting tonight to address authors’ rights and equitable casting in stage productions. The gathering “is a call-to-action an…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, December 9, 2016
A wide-ranging group of theater artists will hold a town hall Monday night to address authors’ rights and equitable casting in stage productions. The gathering “is a call-to-action and a…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:31PMThursday, December 8, 2016
Watching the Plantagenet family going at each other is like witnessing a PSA for how not to treat loved ones. The scheming royals circa 1183 hurl insults and aim dagger-sharp cruelty at chil…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMPatrick Page’s vocal authority has marked him as a leading Broadway villain, from the Grinch to “The Lion King’s” Scar to “Spider-Man’s” the Green Goblin, and the other end of …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
For fans who know Tamara Tunie for 15 years as medical examiner Melinda Warner on NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” her singing career might come as a surprise. She even t…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, December 1, 2016
The Broadcast Film Critics Association has given a posthumous nomination to August Wilson for best adapted screenplay, for the movie “Fences.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:19PMThe EQT Young Playwrights Festival showcasing original scripts by middle school and high school writers from our region returns to City Theatre this weekend, with public performances Saturda…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIt’s Christmastime 1183, and Henry II and his family are locked in a war of words. He has granted his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, a short reprieve from her imprisonment for treason, and th…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
Monday, November 28, 2016
Brandon Uranowitz, a Tony nominee for "An American in Paris," will replace James Monroe Iglehart as part of the Trust Cabaret Series on Feb. 13.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:51PMWednesday, November 23, 2016
It’s pre-war 1940 in small-town Indiana, where Christmastime turns 9-year-old Ralphie’s fancy to his most fervent wish: that Santa leave an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundre…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:06PMOliver Sacks became known to the masses through the movie “Awakenings.” In his 1985 book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales,” the late neurologist co-au…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
The 2014 Tony Award-winning revival of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" is coming to the Benedum Center Jan. 24-25 as a season special of the PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:07AMWalter Washington is a crotchety guy with a gigantic chip on his shoulder, and he has earned it. The widowed ex-cop has survived being shot by a white rookie on the force, and eight years la…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, November 20, 2016
For 15 years, the 24-hour marathon of “A Christmas Story” has been destination TV for holiday revelers. It’s back again this year, beginning at 8 p.m. Dec. 24 on TBS — but you can ge…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
