Sunday, November 8, 2015
Mark Clayton Southers was not his own first choice to direct “The Piano Lesson.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, November 5, 2015
Dominique Morisseau’s “Sunset Baby,” part of the award-winning playwright’s three-play Detroit cycle, earned high praise from New York Times critic Ben Brantley in its 2013 NYC debut…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Monday, November 2, 2015
No, pigs don’t fly, and they don’t jump, not even those who perform at the circus. They do elicit squeals of delight from crowds, though, and are at least as smart as the dogs they star …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:53PMSunday, November 1, 2015
As entertainment creators and presenters look to grow audiences through the marriage of product and technology, consumer choice is the winner. Every day, it seems, an event or announcem…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, October 28, 2015
“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” rides high on a journey of love, loss, renewal and songs that provided the soundtrack for many a baby boomer’s life. And it’s wonderful life -- o…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:00PMJames Michael Shoberg points out that he has no tats or piercings and he doesn’t drink or do drugs. He just has an obsession with the macabre, so people tend to have certain misconceptions.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM“The Elephant Wrestler” tells an intricate story involving seven singing sisters, a heroic policeman and their lasting effect on others.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, October 25, 2015
Part of the beauty of Abby Mueller winning the title role in the tour of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” is, she never saw it coming.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMNational tours of “Matilda the Musical” and “Chicago” herald the summer of 2016 for Pittsburgh CLO, which will produce “Damn Yankees,” “Shrek the Musical,” “Elton John’s …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Composer Stephen Flaherty wrote his first musical at age 14, about the neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, and called it “Pits.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, October 18, 2015
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s India in Focus series dips into several art forms with “The Nayika Project,” a fusion of hip-hop music, classical Indian dance, theater and spoken …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, October 8, 2015
The brand-new hip-hop musical “I.D.,” an exploration of cultural identity through dance, music and emceeing, has found its way to Pittsburgh from Penn State as a presentation of New Hori…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMCity Theatre opens its 41st season, the 15th with artistic director Tracy Brigden leading the way, with “The Night Alive” by the great Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Take a Christian boy band with heavenly dance moves and harmonies, mix with individual quirks and heavy doses of humor, and you have some concept of “Altar Boyz.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIf you are at the gym this weekend and notice some particularly agile strong newcomers working the room, you may seeing Captain America unmasked. Or it could be Iron Man, or the Hulk, or Bla…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, October 2, 2015
Nazi Germany is a phase humanity is going through, young Anna tells her frightened beau, Peter. It may take a few hundred years, but we will get over it. People are essentially good, she tel…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:53AMThursday, October 1, 2015
City Theatre's annual Young Playwrights Festival will showcase six one-act plays, chosen from more than 350 contest submissions by middle school and high school writers from Western Penn…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
It has taken more than 100 years, but the Duquesne University Red Masquers finally have a home to call their own.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe show will go on, but some jobs were lost in the process. PICT Classic Theatre has raised funds to produce the season-ending production of “Oliver Twist” as scheduled, and in the proc…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
The show will go on but some jobs were lost in the process. PICT Classic Theatre has raised funds to produce the season-ending production of “Oliver Twist” as scheduled and in the proces…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:15PMSaturday, September 26, 2015
The attention-grabbing installation of diverse faces titled “Humanae/I AM AUGUST” was unveiled on the facade of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture on Friday, a cele…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, September 25, 2015
A sold-out performance by 10-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune, which was to open the Trust Cabaret season Oct. 5, has been rescheduled for May 2.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:52PMThursday, September 24, 2015
Remy Zaken has appeared off-Broadway and on Broadway, but even she was a little awestruck when she saw a poster of her face plastered on the side of the O’Reilly Theater.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Pop phenom boy bands and Christian-themed music are the inspiration behind “Altar Boyz,” among the top 10 longest-running off-Broadway musicals and now at the CLO Cabaret through Dec. 20…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Quantum Theatre leads off its 25th season with a world-premiere baroque opera of Shakespeare’s “The Winter's Tale,” joined by Attack Theatre, music director Andres Cladera and a fi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
It was like old times at Heinz Hall Tuesday night. A play was created for Rocky Bleier, and he took the ball and ran with it.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:27PMFriday, September 11, 2015
PICT Classic Theatre will be in fast and furious fundraising mode until the end of the month, a make-or-break date for the board of directors to decide if the final show of the season, “Ol…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMA world premiere opera, heartfelt dramas, and award-winning new musicals are about to hit the Pittsburgh Cultural District, which will come alive with the sights and sounds of “India in Fo…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMCity Theatre is closing the street to traffic and opening its doors for the Backstage Block Party, a free event Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, September 9, 2015
The Rocky Bleier story has been told at Heinz Hall once before, but never like this.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
