1,002 stories by "Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
Pittsburgh Public Theater continues to mix classic and up-to-the-minute offerings plus a twist for the 2016-17 season.
The theater scene in Oakland has Carnegie Mellon University, Point Park University and the University of Pittsburgh theater departments all in full swing as February leaps into March.
Aaron and Casey are thrown together on what should be the blind date from hell. He's a nerdy investment banker grieving over a bad breakup; she's a hipster would-be photographer with a histo…
And now, for something different in the Pittsburgh Cultural District …
Patrick Wilson has his eyes on his cell phone, standing alone in Carnegie Mellon University's Purnell Center for the Arts and standing out in a bright red and white Winston Cup ski jacket. T…
Where he eats in Pittsburgh: I'm still a sucker for Pamela's pancakes every time I'm here, and I stay in Shadyside. I have not done Primanti Bros. or The O this trip. Because of our re…
While many people were focused on the Grammy Award winners Monday night, closer to home, student actors were honored in the 22nd annual Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest, presented b…
Watching the movie "Saturday Night Fever" is like opening a time capsule to a blue-collar corner of Brooklyn that was consumed by '70s-style disco fever. It was a place where a 19-year-old g…
Disco and destiny have landed Anthony Crouchelli at Pittsburgh Musical Theater, where the New York-based actor has been fitted for a white three-piece suit to star in "Saturday Night Fever."
We all know theater actors are the marathoners of their profession, going the distance for eight shows a week. Rob McClure is one such trooper, performing on Broadway these days in that over…
Laura Osnes' co-stars were switched from Charming to Chaplin, and a new act was born for the Trust Cabaret Series.
Pittsburgh Public Theater has rolled the dice in presenting that standard bearer of the traditional American musical, "Guys & Dolls," and, as luck would have it, there's life after 65.&#…
Bob Rak has resigned as managing director of Little Lake Theatre, nearly a month after the venerable North Strabane company dismissed Roxy MtJoy after her first season as artistic director.
Even if you know what's coming, the end of "Cabaret" arrives like a knockout punch after a series of jarring jolts and jabs.
CLO Cabaret's "First Date" boasts a couple of firsts for Pittsburgh and one Pittsburgher in particular " the Broadway musical comedy was revamped specifically for the city by the original wr…
For 50 years, the Master of Ceremonies has been inviting us into the Kit Kat Club with a "Willkommen" and a conspiratorial wink.
As luck would have it, Charlie Brady's stage career has not landed him back in Pittsburgh since graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. Until now.
February is when we celebrate Black History Month, which began as a weeklong celebration to commemorate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12 and Frederick Douglass on Feb. 14. The exp…
The journey to bring "Ciara" to Quantum Theatre began in Edinburgh in the summer of 2013. Flash forward to 2016, and Karla Boos' vision of Mary Rawson in the part of Ciara, an art gallery ow…
Playwright Keith Reddin was commissioned by the Sloan Foundation four years ago to author a work that intersects science with the arts. One topic he considered was "a play about sex res…
Rob McClure will replace Santino Fontana in an exchange of Broadway stars on the bill for the sold-out Trust Cabaret Series show Feb. 8, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced.
Roxy MtJoy has been fired as artistic director of Little Lake Theatre after one season at the North Strabane company and replaced for now with a committee of four.
It's good to be the king of the world, and right now, the crown sits atop the Disney empire.
"The Wizard of Oz," now at Heinz Hall, has followed a theatrical road that started in London in 2011 and made its way to Canada before landing here with glitz to spare, and, as is mostly the…
As we dive into 2016, here is a sampling of the bold and diverse programming offered by the local theater scene. Think of a hot ticket as a way to ward off the cold now that it is finally, f…
