1,002 stories by "Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
Get ready to celebrate the new year in a big way. "Hamilton" arrives in Pittsburgh and stays for four weeks, Jan. 1-27, 2019.
You know the drill. You follow the rules to the letter and still get shut out of seeing your favorite band or musical the moment tickets go on sale. And if you still want a ticket, there are…
That number "20" in the "Rent 20th Anniversary Tour" was correct two years ago, when the tour launched to commemorate the 1996 rock musical that reimagined the opera "La Boheme" and created …
Pittsburgh CLO was thinking both big and small when it dreamed up the Spark festival of small musicals and put the plan into action. Now, more than a decade and millions of dollars in t…
'42nd Street'
The extraordinary life of Lorraine Hansberry, the activist and writer of "A Raisin in the Sun," is showcased in the documentary film "Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart," at the August Wilson Center…
Tony and Emmy winner Lillias White will replace LaChanze in two Trust Cabaret Series concerts April 16.
Pittsburgh joins in the fun happening around the globe March 21, taking a cue from the World Day of Puppetry to have a celebration of its own. Courtesy of the Puppetry Guild of Pittsbur…
The Kelly Strayhorn Theater's 10th anniversary season was given a boost Thursday with two grants totaling $200,000.
Tony Award winner Beth Leavel is among some of the guest artists announced Wednesday for Pittsburgh's inaugural SPARK musical theater festival.
Anyone who frequents a neighborhood grocery will recognize it in the set for "Citizens Market." The vinyl floor, the hand-written signs, the stocked produce stand … it all adds up to a che…
"Heisenberg" is a play that's all about romantic chemistry, but with a title about a physics theory " the same one that gave "Breaking Bad's" Walter White his alias ... well, let's just stic…
City Theatre has been running full-steam ahead without an artistic director, but that will change in the coming months. The search to replace Tracy Brigden, who left in June, is being whittl…
The nightly offering over at CLO Cabaret through Tax Day is a Super Saver special " as in, superheroes who dance and sing and save the day.
Playwright Cori Thomas describes the theme she turns to time and again as an exploration of otherness. Not just the outsider or the newcomer, but "wanting people to see other as not other. A…
Aaron Kleiber used to ride his bike over to his neighborhood Carnegie Library and sneak into the abandoned auditorium. Now that it's the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall, the stage is his on…
Desi Oakley was in Boston and on the phone as she talked about coming to Pittsburgh as pie maker extraordinaire Jenna, the star-crossed title character in "Waitress."
You hear the word "overblown" bandied about when it comes to the movie and the live show of "The Bodyguard," as if that's necessarily a bad thing.
Pittsburgher Gab Cody was born in Juno, Alaska, moved to Wasilla, Alaska, and was 5 when her parents divorced and she and her mother departed.
Marya Sea Kaminski officially will step into the role of Pittsburgh Public Theater artistic director on Aug. 1, but she is making her presence known even before she steps up to the plate.
Of all the movies that have been gone from screen to stage, you'd think "The Bodyguard" would have been among the swifter transitions and not nearly 25 years in the making.
Janis Burley Wilson describes her job as leader of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown, as "building a plane while we are flying." Some of the pieces are already …
The Oscar-nominated film "Hidden Figures" and Wynn Thomas have a lot in common. When the second Black Bottom Film Festival bestows its Excellence in Cinema Award to production designer Thoma…
Spring starts in February and lasts into May when it comes to the season's high school musicals in Western Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh was Paris to Steubenville, Ohio, native Jeffrey Hatcher when he was growing up. But London was all about Sherlock Holmes.
