During the dozen years Don Wadsworth has been teaching the Business of the Business class for Carnegie Mellon University senior actors, there have been occasional discussions about the casti…
The annual collaboration of Pittsburgh Musical Theater's Richard E. Rauh Conservatory and the Pittsburgh CAPA Orchestra is "Disney's Beauty and the Beast," at the Byham Theater, Downtown.
At some point in "DODO," I felt like I was floating. Or was it a waking dream?
"School of Rock the Musical" harnesses the crude-cute appeal of the 2003 Jack Black movie and pumps up the volume for a hard-rockin', good-time stage comedy.
"The Godfather" meets Shakespeare in PICT Classic Theatre's "Romeo & Juliet."
Rob Colletti had never heard of W.C. Fields' warning to "never work with animals or children." The star of the national tour of "School of Rock" will be at the head of the class, worki…
By late fall, for the first time in 18 seasons, there will be a new artistic director at Pittsburgh Public Theater. It may take another full season before City Theatre undergoes a similar se…
You have to believe that nothing can stand in the way of "Xanadu," the magical musical that has been reimagined for CLO Cabaret and makes its latest debut this weekend.
Off the Wall productions debuts a new play this weekend by writer/actor Anne Stockton and director Austin Pendleton, then sends it on to New York in February as part of the Carnegie company&…
In the basement below their storefront theater in the Pittsburgh Cultural District, the team at Bricolage Productions has been thinking big.
The tempest stirred up "Equus" when it galloped onto the theater scene in the 1970s continues in Pittsburgh Public Theater's stunningly crafted production, featuring intense performances and…
The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts, which celebrated its 30-year anniversary on Sept. 25, is part of the Doors Open Pittsburgh event this weekend.
Unleash "Seinfeld" on a no-holds-barred cable network, where jokes about rape and vibrators set the tone in a cancer ward, and you have some idea of where the new play at City Theatre is hea…
Ted Pappas marches into his final season as leader of Pittsburgh Public Theater in dramatic fashion, opening with a play that caused a sensation when it burst on the scene in the 1970s.
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre will make Eugene Lee a Pittsburgher for a month, when it performs his play "East Texas Hot Links." Director Montae Russell, who grew up here before heading to …
If you want to bask in the glow of 70 minutes that flash by in a New York minute, spend some time with Kelli O'Hara.
Allegheny County's arts and cultural organizations are in good overall health and continue to be among the nation's leaders in economic impact on their communities, according to a new study.
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Mark Clayton Southers arrived home from Scotland's Edinburgh Festival Fringe a couple of weeks ago and went right to work on a new season at his Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company an…
Conner John Gillooly will take center stage on Broadway for matinees of "School of Rock " The Musical." The recent graduate of Point Park University, out of Seneca Valley High School, plays …
A white man insists that nine black men perform a song about his sweet home Alabama. You know the one, he tells them. It's the one he loved hearing as it rose above the cotton fields. "And w…
An all-star Broadway team including Tony Award-winners Billy Porter and Renee Elise Goldsberry and Tony nominee Norm Lewis will gather Oct. 2 and 3 for readings in New Jersey and New York of…
Rick Maue, a magician and mentalist, is set to give the performance of a lifetime.
The coming of autumn heralds changes at the top at Pittsburgh Public Theater and City Theatre. Both 43-year-old companies open their 2017-18 seasons as farewells to outgoing, longtime leader…