Wednesday, September 9, 2015
The Rocky Bleier story has been told at Heinz Hall once before, but never like this.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, September 3, 2015
PICT Classic Theatre announced today that “due to a significant shortfall in funding,” its production of “The Tempest,” which was scheduled to open on Oct. 10, has been canceled.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:41PMJohn Amplas has heard the comparisons of “The Country House,” the play he is directing for the Playhouse Rep, to Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” He gets the similarities, but when he…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, September 2, 2015
When the PICT Classic Theatre season began, the schedule for the September slot read “Saint Joan,” for which George Bernard Shaw lists a cast of 17. A few weeks into the season, “…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, September 1, 2015
In its 25th year, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival’s reach is far and near, producing scripts submitted from Spain, Canada, California, Virginia, and a couple from right here.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, August 27, 2015
The August Wilson Center for African American Culture is getting an infusion of funding and board members in the new owners’ bid to bring the Downtown building back to life.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:33AMSure, Adam Schreck had a swell time participating in short-form improvs for Christopher Nagel’s Bethel Park High School drama classes. But make a living at it? He didn’t even see himself…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Welcome to the Idina Menzel World Tour and therapy session, guaranteed to push your emotional buttons and allow the diva on stage to get in tune with all of hers.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:48AMAs Judge Joseph K. Williams navigates his role in the uncharted course to revitalization of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, a kitchen is No. 1 on his wish list.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, August 23, 2015
The dog days of summer in Pittsburgh are bringing the heat, both outdoors and onstage at the New Hazlett Theater, where “The Light in the Piazza” is burning with the passion of fresh-fac…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:07PMSaturday, August 22, 2015
Oscar presenter John Travolta may not have gotten Idina Menzel’s name right on the first try, but there are a lot of other names that come to mind when you think of the Tony Award-winning …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:53PMThursday, August 20, 2015
Front Porch Theatricals didn’t go easy on itself when it decided to add a second musical to its usual summertime splash.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Not only is it possible to reinvent an age-old fairy tale as an enchanting spectacle with a social conscience, it’s happening every day for a week at the Benedum Center, where “Rodgers +…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:02PMMark Clayton Southers makes his living as a storyteller, so when he recounts the nightmares that have haunted his recovery from a violent car crash, the revelations are filled with explicit,…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, August 9, 2015
Billy Porter made it official today: He will leave "Kinky Boots" next year and join fellow Tony Award winners Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell in the Broadway production &q…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:08PMYou might say that Cinderella is having a moment, if she had ever been away for longer than it takes to say, “happily ever after.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, August 5, 2015
Sunday, August 2, 2015
STRATFORD, Ontario — Stick around Stratford for just a couple of days, and you can’t help but notice how darn nice everyone is. At every turn, by the banks of the Avon River or arou…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIt’s almost time for heels-down in Pittsburgh, and Billy Porter is giddy about being homecoming king — and drag queen — for a week.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSTRATFORD, Ontario — A Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and a bawdy Shakespeare comedy are not such an odd couple when you get to the heart of the matter. “The Sound of Music” asks and …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSaturday, July 25, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
All those deep dives into the 1980s pop songbook with "Glee" seem like prep work now for Jenna Ushkowitz, who was Tina in the Fox TV series' during its six musical seasons.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, July 19, 2015
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario — Discovering a Shavian thread that runs through three selections seen at Canada’s venerable Shaw Festival would be more difficult to find than a chink in th…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, July 16, 2015
The luck of the Irish doesn’t appear to be with Trassie Conlee. Her father is on his deathbed, and she, alone, must stand strong to protect her brother and her land from her cousins, the m…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Simon Bradbury stirs cream into his tea and searches for words to describe “Sherlock’s Last Case.” One slip of the tongue could give away the big twist in Charles Marowitz’s black co…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMonday, July 6, 2015
The August Wilson Center for African American Culture and Mark Clayton Southers are planning a joint comeback with a production of “The Piano Lesson” in November.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:24PMFriday, July 3, 2015
Even in its lightest moments, a feeling of impending doom looms over “Brewed.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:58PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Marnie Quick of Pittsburgh Barack Obama Academy made it to the top three finalists in a return trip to the National High School Musical Theatre Awards Monday night at Broadway’s Minskoff T…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:35PMSunday, June 28, 2015
The University of Pittsburgh Theatre Arts Department has been experiencing a growth spurt that is about to make a little more noise around the Oakland campus.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, June 25, 2015
Pittsburgh CLO’s two-decade quest to bring Ron Raines to the title role of “Man of La Mancha” has its happy ending at long last.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
It has been two decades since Pittsburgh CLO brought “Man of La Mancha” to the stage, and it was worth the wait.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:30AM 
