Wednesday, 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 12:03PMCLO Cabaret’s “First Date” boasts a couple of firsts for Pittsburgh and one Pittsburgher in particular — the Broadway musical comedy was revamped specifically for the city by the ori…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00PMSunday, January 31, 2016
For 50 years, the Master of Ceremonies has been inviting us into the Kit Kat Club with a “Willkommen” and a conspiratorial wink.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, January 28, 2016
As luck would have it, Charlie Brady’s stage career has not landed him back in Pittsburgh since graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. Until now.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, January 27, 2016
February is when we celebrate Black History Month, which began as a weeklong celebration to commemorate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12 and Frederick Douglass on Feb. 14. The exp…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe journey to bring “Ciara” to Quantum Theatre began in Edinburgh in the summer of 2013. Flash forward to 2016, and Karla Boos’ vision of Mary Rawson in the part of Ciara, an art gall…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Playwright Keith Reddin was commissioned by the Sloan Foundation four years ago to author a work that intersects science with the arts. One topic he considered was “a play about sex r…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Rob McClure will replace Santino Fontana in an exchange of Broadway stars on the bill for the sold-out Trust Cabaret Series show Feb. 8, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:26PMSunday, January 17, 2016
Theater is one place where evil really pays off, and no one had a more loathsome, villainous pair of leading roles to play on Pittsburgh stages in 2015 than James FitzGerald. His rise to the…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, January 15, 2016
Roxy MtJoy has been fired as artistic director of Little Lake Theatre after one season at the North Strabane company and replaced for now with a committee of four.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, January 10, 2016
It’s good to be the king of the world, and right now, the crown sits atop the Disney empire.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, January 7, 2016
“The Wizard of Oz,” now at Heinz Hall, has followed a theatrical road that started in London in 2011 and made its way to Canada before landing here with glitz to spare, and, as is mostly…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:21PMAs we dive into 2016, here is a sampling of the bold and diverse programming offered by the local theater scene. Think of a hot ticket as a way to ward off the cold now that it is finally, f…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Monday, January 4, 2016
If your superheroes create theater magic eight shows a week, then BroadwayCon was conjured just for you.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, December 23, 2015
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" had a very shiny debut as a stage show at Heinz Hall Tuesday night.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:23AMSunday, December 20, 2015
For a change of pace, experience one or more of these 10 live shows and venues between now and First Night:
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe TV movie “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has been broadcast every year since 1964, making it the longest running Christmas TV special ever and also making it a pretty good bet that …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, December 6, 2015
NEW YORK — This season’s Broadway offerings include the new musical “Allegiance,” inspired by star George Takei’s experiences in a Japanese internment camp during World W…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, December 3, 2015
The child actors of PICT Classic Theatre’s “Oliver Twist” have been practicing method acting by playing tricks on the leader of Dickens’ band of thieves.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
Nothing is so daunting for the stars of “Hamilton” as great expectations — not that Leslie Odom Jr. and Renee Elise Goldsberry are complaining.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, November 25, 2015
“Chickens in the Yard” unfolds as a quietly observed turning point in the lives of four interconnected people. And there are chickens present.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, November 24, 2015
On its surface, “Small Engine Repair” is a vulgar, wickedly funny venting of male pride, or in this case, a pride of New England males, three childhood buddies reunited to share the grap…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, November 20, 2015
Billy Porter began the countdown with the hashtag #20DaysOfLola — 20 days until he officially stepped away from Broadway’s “Kinky Boots” and the role that won him Tony and Gramm…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Director Darko Tresnjak began his first journey to Broadway seven years ago, so forgive him if he doesn’t remember early details about “The Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.” H…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Mark Clayton Southers, the leader of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, has been named as artistic director of Short North Stage Theatre's August Wilson Festival in Dayton, Ohio.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:24PMNina, the proud woman at the center of Dominique Morisseau’s “Sunset Baby,” holds onto things. She carries her emotional baggage with her head held high, and holds tight to letters beq…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, November 8, 2015
Mark Clayton Southers was not his own first choice to direct “The Piano Lesson.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
