Anna Ziegler unleashed a monster serve as the playwright of "The Last Match," which takes place during the course of a tennis match between an aging American champion and a Russian upstart. …
The ninth floor of 2 Allegheny Center displays the sort of stunning views you see in movies where the wealthy protagonist lives in a window-encased luxury high-rise.
Casual conversations and the performance of mundane tasks are the essentials of "The Flick," which eavesdrops on a few hours in the lives of three underpaid, underemployed workers at a rundo…
There will be no productions of "Wicked," "Pippin" or "Godspell" in North Carolina for the foreseeable future.
Broadway's best of 2015 are on their way for PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh's 2016-17 season, with a schedule including last year's Tony Award-winning musical, play and revival of a musical " "F…
It's a mystery in an era when Broadway is awash with musical theater revivals that "The Sound of Music" has had only one short-lived remounting there since Mary Martin first belted "The hill…
The one thing you can't say about Jack O'Brien's career is that the director, producer and writer has been pigeonholed.
"Sex With Strangers" makes for a perfect bedfellow with an election year, with revelatory debates emanating from a two-party relationship: Ethan represents youth, techno dependence and a TMZ…
Pittsburgh-based demaskus Theater Collective and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will present the play "You Wouldn't Expect," based on government-sanctioned programs that sterilized 60,000 Ame…
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has revealed that its 2017 season will feature a new musical work based on the poetry of the late playwright August Wilson. "UniSon" was created by …
"The Sound of Music" is among musical theater lovers' favorite things. Now more than 50 years strong, the movie version attracts sing-along screenings, putting it in a rarefied fandom group …
"Miss Julie," written in the 1880s as a commentary on Sweden's class system of haves and have-nots, makes a perfect transfer to the post-Civil War South as "Miss Julie, Clarissa and John," a…
The Tony Award-nominated play "Hand to God" hops from Broadway to London to City Theatre in quick succession as part of the South Side company's 2016-17 season. The new-play theater has anno…
PICT Classic Theatre will move to the Union Project in Highland Park with five productions for its 2016-17 season.
The New York Musical Festival has selected the new musical "Tink" by Stage Right! Theatre Company's Anthony Marino, with music by Lena Gabrielle and lyrics by Greg Kerestan and Ms. Gabrielle…
It's a tantalizing title, "Sex With Strangers," and the carnal comedy by Laura Eason delivers on it quickly " a struggling female novelist and an Internet sensation begin a steamy relat…
Pittsburgh Public Theater knows how to pick a winner when it comes to the Pulitzer Prize.
Mark Clayton Southers traveled across an ocean to discover August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" on stage and Monteze Freeland read the play in solitude after graduating from Point Park Universit…
In Hollywood as in the theater, women are reacting to revelatory statistics by finding new ways to get their stories told.
Tammy Ryan, Pittsburgh's most successful contemporary playwright, has plays on stages in St. Louis and Portland, Maine, success that would seem to defy the odds as determined by "The Count,"…
Jason Robert Brown creates a musical vocabulary for love in many of his songs, from the relationship cycle of "The Last Five Years" to the tragic couple at the heart of "Parade" to the comed…
Some families pass down heirlooms or fandom from generation to generation. For members of St. Sebastian Parish in Ross, it's a spot in the annual musical.
For year 11, Bricolage Urban Scrawl is full steam ahead but also looking back on a decade of fast-paced creativity with the book "B.U.S.: 10 Years of 10-Minute Plays."
Andrew Paul's Kinetic Theatre returns in 2016 with an expanded season " three plays instead of two, all Pittsburgh premiere comedies.
The national tour of "An American in Paris," the winner of four Tony Awards in 2015, will dance into the Benedum Center May 30-June 11, 2017, as part of the Pittsburgh CLO summer season and …