Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Pittsburgh-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 12:00AMTuesday, March 22, 2016
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has revealed that its 2017 season will feature a new musical work based on the poetry of the late playwright August Wilson. "UniSon" was created by …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:28PMSunday, March 20, 2016
“The Sound of Music” is among musical theater lovers’ favorite things. Now more than 50 years strong, the movie version attracts sing-along screenings, putting it in a rarefied fandom …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, March 18, 2016
“Miss Julie,” written in the 1880s as a commentary on Sweden’s class system of haves and have-nots, makes a perfect transfer to the post-Civil War South as “Miss Julie, Clarissa and …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:34AMTuesday, March 15, 2016
The Tony Award-nominated play “Hand to God” hops from Broadway to London to City Theatre in quick succession as part of the South Side company’s 2016-17 season. The new-play theater ha…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:31PMMonday, March 14, 2016
PICT Classic Theatre will move to the Union Project in Highland Park with five productions for its 2016-17 season.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:34PMThe New York Musical Festival has selected the new musical “Tink” by Stage Right! Theatre Company’s Anthony Marino, with music by Lena Gabrielle and lyrics by Greg Kerestan and Ms. Gab…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:28PMFriday, March 11, 2016
It’s a tantalizing title, “Sex With Strangers,” and the carnal comedy by Laura Eason delivers on it quickly — a struggling female novelist and an Internet sensation begin a stea…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:21PMThursday, March 10, 2016
Pittsburgh Public Theater knows how to pick a winner when it comes to the Pulitzer Prize.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, March 8, 2016
Mark Clayton Southers traveled across an ocean to discover August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” on stage and Monteze Freeland read the play in solitude after graduating from Point Park Uni…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00PMSunday, March 6, 2016
In Hollywood as in the theater, women are reacting to revelatory statistics by finding new ways to get their stories told.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTammy Ryan, Pittsburgh’s most successful contemporary playwright, has plays on stages in St. Louis and Portland, Maine, success that would seem to defy the odds as determined by “The Cou…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMJason Robert Brown creates a musical vocabulary for love in many of his songs, from the relationship cycle of “The Last Five Years” to the tragic couple at the heart of “Parade” to t…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, March 4, 2016
Some families pass down heirlooms or fandom from generation to generation. For members of St. Sebastian Parish in Ross, it’s a spot in the annual musical.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, March 3, 2016
For year 11, Bricolage Urban Scrawl is full steam ahead but also looking back on a decade of fast-paced creativity with the book “B.U.S.: 10 Years of 10-Minute Plays.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Andrew Paul’s Kinetic Theatre returns in 2016 with an expanded season — three plays instead of two, all Pittsburgh premiere comedies.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
The national tour of “An American in Paris,” the winner of four Tony Awards in 2015, will dance into the Benedum Center May 30-June 11, 2017, as part of the Pittsburgh CLO summer season …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:31PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Pittsburgh Public Theater continues to mix classic and up-to-the-minute offerings plus a twist for the 2016-17 season.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe theater scene in Oakland has Carnegie Mellon University, Point Park University and the University of Pittsburgh theater departments all in full swing as February leaps into March.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, February 22, 2016
Aaron and Casey are thrown together on what should be the blind date from hell. He’s a nerdy investment banker grieving over a bad breakup; she’s a hipster would-be photographer with a h…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, February 21, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Patrick Wilson has his eyes on his cell phone, standing alone in Carnegie Mellon University’s Purnell Center for the Arts and standing out in a bright red and white Winston Cup ski jacket.…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWhere he eats in Pittsburgh: I’m still a sucker for Pamela’s pancakes every time I’m here, and I stay in Shadyside. I have not done Primanti Bros. or The O this trip. Because of …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
While many people were focused on the Grammy Award winners Monday night, closer to home, student actors were honored in the 22nd annual Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest, presented b…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:54AMWatching the movie “Saturday Night Fever” is like opening a time capsule to a blue-collar corner of Brooklyn that was consumed by ’70s-style disco fever. It was a place where a 19-year…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, February 11, 2016
Disco and destiny have landed Anthony Crouchelli at Pittsburgh Musical Theater, where the New York-based actor has been fitted for a white three-piece suit to star in “Saturday Night Fever…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
We all know theater actors are the marathoners of their profession, going the distance for eight shows a week. Rob McClure is one such trooper, performing on Broadway these days in that over…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:10AMSunday, February 7, 2016
Laura Osnes’ co-stars were switched from Charming to Chaplin, and a new act was born for the Trust Cabaret Series.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, February 5, 2016
Pittsburgh Public Theater has rolled the dice in presenting that standard bearer of the traditional American musical, “Guys & Dolls,” and, as luck would have it, there’s life after…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:16PMThursday, February 4, 2016
Bob Rak has resigned as managing director of Little Lake Theatre, nearly a month after the venerable North Strabane company dismissed Roxy MtJoy after her first season as artistic director.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:17PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Even if you know what’s coming, the end of “Cabaret” arrives like a knockout punch after a series of jarring jolts and jabs.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:03PM 
