Between them, Emmy Raver-Lampman and Mark Evans have acted in three of the top box-office and critical successes of the past decade, something to bond over as they prepare to play star-cross…
Summertime, and the theater scene in Western Pennsylvania is alive and cooking up new experiences all the time.
Carnegie Mellon University rising senior John Clay III recently took first place and a $12,000 prize at the National Society of Arts and Letters musical theater competition. In annoucing the…
Pittsburgh CLO no sooner left the baseball diamonds of "Damn Yankees" than it has dived into the fairy-tale world of "Shrek the Musical."
Rory Donovan and Andre Jordan had met just a few days earlier, but Pittsburgh CLO's Shrek and Donkey were already finishing each other's sentences and sharing a bag of chips.
"Hamilton" said farewell this week to its leading players " creator-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo and Leslie Odom Jr., the Carnegie Mellon University grad who won best actor in a mus…
Audra McDonald began her career as a replacement performer. That's right, the winner of six Tony Awards and the only Broadway star to earn a Tony in all four acting categories moved into the…
Pirates fans may be getting antsy, rooting for a team that was last in the World Series when Pittsburgh won it all in 1979. But would even the most fanatic true-blue black-and-gold fan sell …
It was 20 years ago June 26 that August Wilson delivered the speech "The Ground on Which I Stand," a rallying cry for the support of African-American theater artists.
The post-Tony Awards shuffle has begun on Broadway, with shows benefitting from wins and others moving along for a variety of reasons. "The Humans," for example, won best play of 2016 will h…
Inspiration for musicals can come from the most bizarre places. Screaming headlines from 1920s Chicago led a trio from that town to the brilliant conclusion that women who kill would make a …
The musical "She Loves Me" will make history June 30 as the first Broadway show to be live-streamed.
John O'Hurley has become one with the J. Peterman catalog company, as part owner with the real-life J. Peterman. Yet the actor misses the "Seinfeld" character of the same name more than any …
The Tony Awards celebrated "Hamilton's" coronation and 70 years of honoring Broadway Sunday on a night that began with a declaration of solidarity with Orlando and honoring the victims of th…
You will hear "Hamilton" repeatedly tonight, so get used to it. It will be exclaimed just after a Broadway star says, "And the Tony Award goes to …"
"Venus in Fur" storms into Pittsburgh Public Theater with gripping performances and grown-ups-only entertainment about looking for love in all the wrong places. It's smart and funny, sexy an…
When you hear dark comic thriller, a children's story isn't the first thing that comes to mind " unless the source is Roald Dahl, creator of Willy Wonka, "The Witches" and the soon-to-b…
It was the giant roaming the stage at the Benedum Center that grabbed everyone's attention Saturday night at the Gene Kelly Awards ceremony. Baldwin High School was performing a number from …
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company's Festival in Black and White is back for a 12th year of one-act plays featuring a multicultural crop of local writers, directors and actors Saturday t…
A storm is brewing throughout "Venus in Fur." It begins with the arrival of Vanda, disheveled and full of attitude, accompanied by a thunderclap and a bag of tricks.
City Theatre's Momentum 16 " a festival of "plays at different stages" of development " showcases five works in progress Thursday through Sunday at the South Side theater.
Paula Brancati is still attending school, but Degrassi Community School and Crunchem Hall are as different as the dreadlocks sported by Jane Vaughn and the prim blond wig atop Miss Honey's h…
Marnie Quick of Pittsburgh Obama Academy was crowned Best Actress for the third straight year at Pittsburgh CLO's Gene Kelly Awards, sending the senior to the National High School Music…
Rachel Stevens has been keeping some pretty cool company on her way back to Pittsburgh to do her own thing.
It's a Broadway geek's delight, the pairing of Michael Cerveris and Seth Rudetsky in the intimate Cabaret at Theater Square.