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Checkout some of what’s happening in the greater Pittsburgh theatre scene this week. Want your company’s shows to be listed here, drop us the info and pictures at [email protected] …
Reviewed by Jessica Neu This past weekend, Cranberry’s Comtra Theater hosted their first musical in over a year. Batavia Musical Theater, located in Mars, PA, performed the Lion King Jr.…
By Hallie Donner (ATC provided press release) Something big is happening at Alumni Theatre Company on Saturday, May 8th! A cast of ATC Young Artists will fearlessly take the stage and perf…
Sunsum is Spirit is an immersive experience that combines original music with traditional and contemporary African dance, movement and storytelling. This surrealist performance captures a li…
Happy Birthday, Will! Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks presents a whole lot of Will for the 457th celebration! It’s WEEK OF WILL: IN THE WORKS. Read on for the season ann…
Photo: Music Director Manfred Honeck leads the PSO in “Carmen & Beethoven,” an inventive program of stellar works. Photo credit: Julie Goetz This concert was recorded live at Heinz H…
As Pittsburgh begins to gear up for the reopening of our beloved theaters and safely welcome guests back, the Pittsburg Cultural Trust has announced the first theaters or performing arts v…
Pittsburgh CLO today announced it will bring Broadway back to the ‘Burgh this summer at Heinz Field in a first-ever partnership with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The two-show “Summer Under t…
When you’re a Greaser, you’re a Greaser all the way. It may not have the same ring to it as the iconic lyric I’m repurposing here, but it’s no doubt the credo for the characters i…
Reviewed by Ralph Leary As every new parent knows, babies don’t come with an owner’s manual. Books stores are filled with shelves of advice and guidance, and thousands of sites are jus…
By Eva Phillips Obsession and compulsion are curious things. Often, there is an ascetic sterility that’s assumed—fastidiously organizing all the marginalia of one’s existence so nothin…
By Eva Phillips Dungeons and Dragons (D&D, colloquially) has achieved and maintained a level of popularity, notoriety and infamy since its creation in 1974 that is just as grandiose as t…
By Cayleigh Boniger With the resounding success of the U.S. Women’s soccer team and their dramatic win of the World Cup, Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan have become household names. But wh…
By Brian Pope Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The patriarch of a white (usually Southern) family dies. This tragic inevitability sets his family (primarily his adult children) on …
I don’t believe there was a more viscerally tempestuous and discombobulated time in my young life than when I was fully immersed in team sports. Questionably coordinated and ravaged by …
Pittsburgh Opera’s “Second Stage Production,” always a sure sign that spring is around the corner, and this year Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi’s The Last American Hammer, will have …
Once more, Shammen McCune is immersed in an iconic Shakespearean role. In 2017, McCune portrayed Lady Capulet in PICT Classic Theater’s Romeo and Juliet. In 2019, she inhabited Caliba…
By Eva Phillips Selling audiences on a musical that delves into the excruciating morass a woman traverses as she faces grief, mental illness, a stymied marriage, and a romance, of sort, with…
As is customary once its current season is at the midway point, Pittsburgh Opera has made public details on the works to be presented during the next season – the company’s 82nd. The l…
On exceptionally rare occasions Pittsburgh hears the premiere of an opera. Operas in English translations are more common. But it’s a safe bet that the English language premiere of The …
By Eva Phillips Let’s not beat around the bush here (yes, that’s a hair pun right off the bat, but I think it’s the apropos mood for the show)—HAIR is fundamentally chaotic. Which is…
Next up at Pittsburgh Opera is George Frideric Handel’s Alcina – a baroque work that, while centuries old, is anything but “time honored.” The opera (“Alcheenah” to American spea…
2019 was a preponderance of things: chaotic, joyous, concerning, impeaching, meteorologically unpredictable, mournful, hilarious, and so on. But in the sea of adjectives, expletives, and oth…
By Eva Phillips There’s an inescapable dread and ennui that comes with the holiday season. If the despotic demands to buy the best gifts, prepare the best meals, and have the best life-cha…
