Brruuuuce! The Boss of Rock 'n' Roll and now Broadway, Bruce Springsteen, will receive a special Tony Award Sunday for his one-man show and " set your DVRs now " will perform at the 2018 Ton…
Billy Porter is striking a new pose on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. The magazine's annual LGBTQ issue features the cast of "Pose," the new FX drama that boasts TV's largest cast of tra…
What started as a kernel of "some kind of legacy production" built up over 10 years until "On Your Feet!" " the story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine " landed on Bro…
Darren Criss had just delivered his version of "Genie in a Bottle," giving fans at the Benedum Center a hometown jolt with a Christina Aguilera song, when it became apparent he had…
Melody Herzfeld of Parkland, Fla., has been named the fourth recipient of the Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre Education Award, co-presented by Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Herzfeld, …
Nasir Butler bops into a Pittsburgh CAPA rehearsal room, smiling and soft-spoken, wearing camo shorts and a T-shirt that gives away why he is there at 10 a.m. on a school day. The logo is fr…
The Reduced Shakespeare Company is a company without a building, so it relies on the hospitality of stages throughout the world, including one of its homes away from home, Pittsburgh Public'…
It's usually the case with Quantum Theatre that the who and the what come long before the where. In its upcoming season, the avant-garde company has all the "w's" covered for two of its thre…
New theaters, productions and companies of all shapes and sizes are popping up in and around Pittsburgh with a mind-numbing frequency.
Nasir Butler of Pittsburgh CAPA and Johanna Loughran of Oakland Catholic High School are headed to New York City after winning the top acting awards at Pittsburgh CLO's 28th annual Gene Kell…
Between his most recent theater jobs, Marc Masterson spent some time exploring South America and logging 6,000 United States miles in a vintage Airstream trailer. He is finally ready to sett…
"Building the Wall" opened in New York a year ago this week, six months after Donald Trump was elected. The work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan ("The Kentucky Cycle," …
Gordon Schwinn is having a rough time of it. He is a songwriter reduced to writing for a puppet named Froggy. Gordo's a prickly guy anyway, and now he's having hallucinations " just before h…
The Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts is back and expanding its scope, adding premieres from the United States " including some from right here at home " for three weeks in the fal…
A community theater in Greenfield has run afoul of the creators of the musical "Big Fish" after canceling a production of the show that had been scheduled to open June 15.
Ben Levi Ross has followed a glowing list of one-and-done Carnegie Mellon alumni on the road to stardom. It was announced Thursday that he will lead the national tour of the Tony Award-winni…
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's 32nd annual Pittsburgh International Children's Theater Festival invades Downtown this weekend, with family-friendly performances, activities and art and musi…
In 2016, the doors to Bricolage Productions were opened to the whimsical world of "Welcome to Here," designed by the company to embrace children with autism spectrum disorder and their famil…
Tammy Ryan, the widely produced Pittsburgh playwright and educator, has been named a New Dramatists resident playwright for the class of 2025.
August Wilson couldn't have known it at the time, but the idea of a video store as a formula for success today leaps out as a metaphor for the inevitable failure of characters striving to be…
Barebones productions goes boldly into the theatrical menu. At the relatively new black box in Braddock, you can find Patrick Jordan's company dishing out provocative works, most of them inf…
Billy Porter's busy summer of 2018 will bring him home to Pittsburgh and City Theatre as a playwright, for a private workshop of his play, "Untitled Sex Project," working with director Shery…
Point Park University will say "Willkommen" to its new theater digs Oct. 26, when it opens the doors to the Downtown Pittsburgh Playhouse with a Conservatory production of "Cabaret."
Julianne Avolio is marrying fellow actor John Michnya in October, but before she says "I do" for real, she has been schooled in the "don'ts" that make for a "Perfect Wedding."