He's been around for hundreds of years and present for some of the greatest achievements throughout human history. According to legend, he regenerates by siphoning the psychic energy from th…
A mother of six left her Dormont home 36 years ago and crossed the state to do battle with nuclear warheads.
A year before "RuPaul's Drag Race" splashed the spectacle of a drag queen battle royale onto television screens, "Wig Out!" was onstage to pull back the curtain on the fierce competitors who…
Shirley might as well talk to the wall, for as much as anyone listens to her. So she does. Constantly.
Mason Alexander Park was destined for the Hollywood life, or so he thought.
Alan Stanford is happy to report that PICT Classic Theatre is in the midst of a rebirth.
Floyd Collins is enjoying his luckiest day. He has crawled and scraped his way to the underground cave of his dreams, one that will lure tourists and make him rich. He yodels with glee and c…
The Tull Family Theater in Sewickley has hired a programmer to bring first-run films to its art house cinema as the complex takes shape for an early 2017 opening.
Nathan Salstone and Danny McHugh, who play brothers in the musical "Floyd Collins," were saying their goodbyes when Mr. Salstone mentioned that seven cast members had visited the Laurel Cave…
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced the 2016-17 Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series this week:
The Pittsburgh New Works Festival, the annual showcase of 18 new one-act plays, gets underway with free staged readings of six works this Sunday and Aug. 28 at Carnegie …
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are rolling into Pittsburgh to bare all about their life together. Be prepared to blush.
The hot-button topic of hydraulic fracking wasn't on Paul Kruse's radar until his younger brother, Joe, was arrested during a protest of a sand mine in Minnesota.
August Wilson has come home. The late, great playwright's "Seven Guitars" opened Friday in the backyard of his childhood home in the Hill District, just as he had described the setting in hi…
The brilliant duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II understood the value of art as a window into the class, gender, age and racial issues of the day. And they sure could write a ti…
For 70 years, Pittsburgh CLO summers have been a cornucopia of classic musicals of the 20th century in a mix of old and new. Next year, it will buck tradition by mining the recent past. In a…
Most people take time off to relax in a vacation spot far from the trappings of their workplace. Ben Davis is taking a two-week break from the national tour of "The Sound of Music" to come t…
While Shakespeare was wowing the Brits in England in the late 16th and early 17th century, down south a ways in Spain, it was all about Lope de Vega.
"Dani Girl" has been produced from Pittsburgh to Australia, and now it is crossing an ocean again. The musical by Carnegie Mellon alums Christopher Dimond (book and lyrics) and Mic…
James E. "Pee Wee" White has been watching with great interest the rehabilitation of August Wilson's childhood home from a front row seat: He lives across the street from the building in the…
Harry Potter is back, older and still courting danger along with the rest of the gang " and their children " in the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two," which opens t…
Pittsburgh CLO steps into new territory as it time travels to ancient Egypt, which provides the steamy backdrop for forbidden love in the "Aida" of Elton John and Tim Rice.
James Michael Shoberg will adapt "Fright Night," into a stage play next year, the culmination of his years of adapting classics into plays with a streak of the macabre and the erotic and das…
You don't have to be the world's greatest detective to deduce that Sherlock Holmes, in all his literary glory, constitutes a parody waiting to happen.
Actor David Whalen and director Andrew Paul are on the case of "The Hound of the Baskervilles," a strictly LOL version of the Sherlock Holmes story.