Thursday, September 22, 2016
f you see a guy walking around the South Side with a puppet, say “Hi.” Just don’t be surprised if the puppet answers.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
“Kinky Boots” strutted back into the Benedum Center Tuesday, a little more than a year after Pittsburgh embraced Billy Porter there in his Tony Award-winning role as Lola, the drag queen…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:43PMEvan Ruggiero’s first audition for the Pittsburgh CLO ensemble earned a callback. He arrived ready to dance, but that wasn’t the hard part of the audition.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, September 18, 2016
The first line of Josh Tolle’s website isn’t about his impressive singing career or that he is now traveling with the “Kinky Boots” national tour. No, it’s about his hometown:
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:16AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Back to school isn’t the only sign that fall is fast approaching. Theaters that have been shuttered for summer throw open their doors, and companies that had enjoyed a hiatus are headed ba…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:23PMBen Vereen was chatting away about his career on stage and screen, his work with schoolchildren and the concert he will bring to Fox Chapel Saturday. The show is titled “Steppin’ Out,”…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, September 11, 2016
He’s been around for hundreds of years and present for some of the greatest achievements throughout human history. According to legend, he regenerates by siphoning the psychic energy from …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, September 8, 2016
A mother of six left her Dormont home 36 years ago and crossed the state to do battle with nuclear warheads.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMA year before “RuPaul’s Drag Race” splashed the spectacle of a drag queen battle royale onto television screens, “Wig Out!” was onstage to pull back the curtain on the fierce compe…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
Shirley might as well talk to the wall, for as much as anyone listens to her. So she does. Constantly.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Mason Alexander Park was destined for the Hollywood life, or so he thought.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMAlan Stanford is happy to report that PICT Classic Theatre is in the midst of a rebirth.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Floyd Collins is enjoying his luckiest day. He has crawled and scraped his way to the underground cave of his dreams, one that will lure tourists and make him rich. He yodels with glee and c…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe Tull Family Theater in Sewickley has hired a programmer to bring first-run films to its art house cinema as the complex takes shape for an early 2017 opening.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, August 25, 2016
Nathan Salstone and Danny McHugh, who play brothers in the musical “Floyd Collins,” were saying their goodbyes when Mr. Salstone mentioned that seven cast members had visited the Laurel …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSaturday, August 20, 2016
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced the 2016-17 Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series this week:
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, August 19, 2016
The Pittsburgh New Works Festival, the annual showcase of 18 new one-act plays, gets underway with free staged readings of six works this Sunday and Aug. 28 at Carnegie …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, August 18, 2016
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are rolling into Pittsburgh to bare all about their life together. Be prepared to blush.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, August 11, 2016
The hot-button topic of hydraulic fracking wasn’t on Paul Kruse’s radar until his younger brother, Joe, was arrested during a protest of a sand mine in Minnesota.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, August 8, 2016
August Wilson has come home. The late, great playwright’s “Seven Guitars” opened Friday in the backyard of his childhood home in the Hill District, just as he had described the setting…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:34PMSaturday, August 6, 2016
The brilliant duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II understood the value of art as a window into the class, gender, age and racial issues of the day. And they sure could write a ti…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:07PMFriday, August 5, 2016
For 70 years, Pittsburgh CLO summers have been a cornucopia of classic musicals of the 20th century in a mix of old and new. Next year, it will buck tradition by mining the recent past. In a…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, August 4, 2016
Most people take time off to relax in a vacation spot far from the trappings of their workplace. Ben Davis is taking a two-week break from the national tour of “The Sound of Music” to co…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, August 3, 2016
While Shakespeare was wowing the Brits in England in the late 16th and early 17th century, down south a ways in Spain, it was all about Lope de Vega.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
"Dani Girl" has been produced from Pittsburgh to Australia, and now it is crossing an ocean again. The musical by Carnegie Mellon alums Christopher Dimond (book and lyrics) and Mic…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:39PMSunday, July 31, 2016
James E. “Pee Wee” White has been watching with great interest the rehabilitation of August Wilson’s childhood home from a front row seat: He lives across the street from the building …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSaturday, July 30, 2016
Harry Potter is back, older and still courting danger along with the rest of the gang — and their children — in the play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two,” which…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Pittsburgh CLO steps into new territory as it time travels to ancient Egypt, which provides the steamy backdrop for forbidden love in the “Aida” of Elton John and Tim Rice.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:48AMMonday, July 25, 2016
James Michael Shoberg will adapt “Fright Night,” into a stage play next year, the culmination of his years of adapting classics into plays with a streak of the macabre and the erotic and…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, July 24, 2016
You don’t have to be the world’s greatest detective to deduce that Sherlock Holmes, in all his literary glory, constitutes a parody waiting to happen.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:37AM 
