1,002 stories by "Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
It has been 81 years since Alfred Hitchcock introduced the spy thriller "The 39 Steps" and a decade since it morphed into a stage adaption as a comedic homage to "The Master of Suspense."
Summer in the Pittsburgh Cultural District kicks off with CLO Cabaret presenting an ode to Hitchcock thrillers, then moves on to a splashy Broadway musical about a magical little girl before…
August Wilson is about to complete a Broadway cycle. With the Manhattan Theatre Club production of "Jitney," set in 1970s Pittsburgh, each of the late Pittsburgh playwrights' 10 plays timed …
He comes on like a lamb, does Benjamin Scheuer. Sweet face, pleasant voice, tie askew, he smiles and sails smoothly into a song about a homemade toy that was a father's gift of music to his …
Bricolage Productions was bustling amid the smell of freshly cut wood and the carpentry sounds of putting on a show. All senses were on alert in preparation for "Welcome to Here," an immersi…
The play about making a tough choice, sexually speaking, was not called "The Cockfight" when it won the Olivier Award " England's version of the Tony " in 2010. But when it came to the Unite…
My double-feature for Mother's Day weekend was a strange brew of Edgar Allan Poe creepiness and Broadway musical giddiness. First, the music …
Eli's coming -- Eli Gold, that is, of "The Good Wife." Alan Cumming, whose stage credits include the Tony Award-winning role as the Emcee of "Cabaret," is bringing hi…
Benjamin Scheuer knows if you aren't paying attention. He listened and learned while playing gigs in New York's Greenwich Village.
The grit and glam of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" are bubbling to the surface when we meet "Tru," as the writer is known, at Christmastime in 1975.
Pittsburgh CAPA senior DaMya Gurley took third place at the National August Wilson Monologue Contest on May 2. DaMya competed against 18 high school contestants from 15 cities at the event, …
'Jeeves Intervenes,' Little Lake Theatre
Lin-Manuel Miranda made his first White House appearance in November 2009, at a performance billed as an evening of poetry and music, where he explained he was working on a concept album abo…
Pittsburgh CLO has raised $9 million in the private phase of a planned $10 million capital campaign to support initiatives including new work development for the CLO Cabaret and large-scale …
History was a big winner in the present day, when the revolutionary musical "Hamilton" set a record with 16 Tony Award nominations this morning.
Justin Lonesome is one of Pittsburgh's most versatile actors, from musicals with Pittsburgh CLO and Pittsburgh Musical Theater to dramas for the Playhouse REP and PICT Classic Theatre.
Lamman Rucker has had a busy month in a very busy year, but not too busy to come home to Pittsburgh and celebrate the birthday of a man he recalls as "Uncle Auggie."
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will mark August Wilson's birthday Wednesday with a reading of "Jitney" at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown.
First, there's that voice. If you watched national talk shows of the 1960s, you may have been aware of Truman Capote as the writer of the seminal work of creative nonfiction, "In Cold Blood,…
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" wasn't on Patrick Jordan's radar as a barebones show until a couple of actor friends floated the idea.
Two-time Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris of the Broadway hit "Fun Home" and Seth Rudetsky, radio host and co-creator/star of "Disaster" on Broadway are coming to Pittsburgh May 23 to supp…
"Knock, knock. Who's there?" … Why, it's William Shakespeare " Act 2, Scene 3 of "Macbeth," to be exact. Below find more everyday phrases from the pen of the world's best-known playwr…
If you follow tennis at all, you will feel a sense of familiarity with the tennis players caught up in the epic contest of "The Last Match."
The August Wilson House Project is set to unveil architectural plans for the restoration of the playwright's Hill District childhood home and begin re-creating the house at 1727 Bedford Ave.…
A room with a view is a wonderful perk, but as a backdrop, it can be a distraction or, worse, competition for a work such as "The Master Builder." The play by Henrik Ibsen boasts themes enou…
