Tuesday, May 17, 2016
He comes on like a lamb, does Benjamin Scheuer. Sweet face, pleasant voice, tie askew, he smiles and sails smoothly into a song about a homemade toy that was a father’s gift of music to hi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, May 12, 2016
Bricolage Productions was bustling amid the smell of freshly cut wood and the carpentry sounds of putting on a show. All senses were on alert in preparation for “Welcome to Here,” an imm…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe play about making a tough choice, sexually speaking, was not called “The Cockfight” when it won the Olivier Award — England’s version of the Tony — in 2010. But when it came to…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
My double-feature for Mother’s Day weekend was a strange brew of Edgar Allan Poe creepiness and Broadway musical giddiness. First, the music …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:37PMEli's coming -- Eli Gold, that is, of "The Good Wife." Alan Cumming, whose stage credits include the Tony Award-winning role as the Emcee of "Cabaret," is bringing hi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:25PMBenjamin Scheuer knows if you aren’t paying attention. He listened and learned while playing gigs in New York’s Greenwich Village.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, May 8, 2016
The grit and glam of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” are bubbling to the surface when we meet “Tru,” as the writer is known, at Christmastime in …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:28PMThursday, May 5, 2016
Pittsburgh CAPA senior DaMya Gurley took third place at the National August Wilson Monologue Contest on May 2. DaMya competed against 18 high school contestants from 15 cities at the event, …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:13AMWednesday, May 4, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda made his first White House appearance in November 2009, at a performance billed as an evening of poetry and music, where he explained he was working on a concept album abo…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:28AMPittsburgh CLO has raised $9 million in the private phase of a planned $10 million capital campaign to support initiatives including new work development for the CLO Cabaret and large-scale …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, May 3, 2016
History was a big winner in the present day, when the revolutionary musical “Hamilton” set a record with 16 Tony Award nominations this morning.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:36AMSunday, May 1, 2016
Justin Lonesome is one of Pittsburgh’s most versatile actors, from musicals with Pittsburgh CLO and Pittsburgh Musical Theater to dramas for the Playhouse REP and PICT Classic Theatre.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Lamman Rucker has had a busy month in a very busy year, but not too busy to come home to Pittsburgh and celebrate the birthday of a man he recalls as “Uncle Auggie.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:28PMPittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will mark August Wilson’s birthday Wednesday with a reading of “Jitney” at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, April 22, 2016
First, there’s that voice. If you watched national talk shows of the 1960s, you may have been aware of Truman Capote as the writer of the seminal work of creative nonfiction, “In Cold Bl…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, April 21, 2016
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” wasn’t on Patrick Jordan’s radar as a barebones show until a couple of actor friends floated the idea.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Two-time Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris of the Broadway hit “Fun Home” and Seth Rudetsky, radio host and co-creator/star of “Disaster” on Broadway are coming to Pittsburgh May 23…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:44PM“Knock, knock. Who’s there?” … Why, it’s William Shakespeare — Act 2, Scene 3 of “Macbeth,” to be exact. Below find more everyday phrases from the pen of the world’s b…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00PMIf you follow tennis at all, you will feel a sense of familiarity with the tennis players caught up in the epic contest of “The Last Match.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, April 18, 2016
The August Wilson House Project is set to unveil architectural plans for the restoration of the playwright’s Hill District childhood home and begin re-creating the house at 1727 Bedford Av…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:18PMMonday, April 11, 2016
A room with a view is a wonderful perk, but as a backdrop, it can be a distraction or, worse, competition for a work such as “The Master Builder.” The play by Henrik Ibsen boasts themes …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:23PMThursday, April 7, 2016
Anna Ziegler unleashed a monster serve as the playwright of “The Last Match,” which takes place during the course of a tennis match between an aging American champion and a Russian upsta…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
The ninth floor of 2 Allegheny Center displays the sort of stunning views you see in movies where the wealthy protagonist lives in a window-encased luxury high-rise.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00PMCasual conversations and the performance of mundane tasks are the essentials of “The Flick,” which eavesdrops on a few hours in the lives of three underpaid, underemployed workers at a r…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, April 5, 2016
There will be no productions of “Wicked,” “Pippin” or “Godspell” in North Carolina for the foreseeable future.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, March 28, 2016
Broadway’s best of 2015 are on their way for PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh’s 2016-17 season, with a schedule including last year’s Tony Award-winning musical, play and revival of a musica…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:17PMWednesday, March 23, 2016
It’s a mystery in an era when Broadway is awash with musical theater revivals that “The Sound of Music” has had only one short-lived remounting there since Mary Martin first belted “…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:32PMThe one thing you can’t say about Jack O’Brien’s career is that the director, producer and writer has been pigeonholed.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:11PM“Sex With Strangers” makes for a perfect bedfellow with an election year, with revelatory debates emanating from a two-party relationship: Ethan represents youth, techno dependence and a…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMPittsburgh-based demaskus Theater Collective and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will present the play “You Wouldn’t Expect,” based on government-sanctioned programs that sterilized 60,0…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
