1,002 stories by "Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
Part of the beauty of Abby Mueller winning the title role in the tour of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" is, she never saw it coming.
National tours of "Matilda the Musical" and "Chicago" herald the summer of 2016 for Pittsburgh CLO, which will produce "Damn Yankees," "Shrek the Musical," "Elton John's Aida" and close with…
Composer Stephen Flaherty wrote his first musical at age 14, about the neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, and called it "Pits."
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's India in Focus series dips into several art forms with "The Nayika Project," a fusion of hip-hop music, classical Indian dance, theater and spoken word.
The brand-new hip-hop musical "I.D.," an exploration of cultural identity through dance, music and emceeing, has found its way to Pittsburgh from Penn State as a presentation of New Horizon …
City Theatre opens its 41st season, the 15th with artistic director Tracy Brigden leading the way, with "The Night Alive" by the great Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
Take a Christian boy band with heavenly dance moves and harmonies, mix with individual quirks and heavy doses of humor, and you have some concept of "Altar Boyz."
If you are at the gym this weekend and notice some particularly agile strong newcomers working the room, you may seeing Captain America unmasked. Or it could be Iron Man, or the Hulk, or Bla…
Nazi Germany is a phase humanity is going through, young Anna tells her frightened beau, Peter. It may take a few hundred years, but we will get over it. People are essentially good, she tel…
City Theatre's annual Young Playwrights Festival will showcase six one-act plays, chosen from more than 350 contest submissions by middle school and high school writers from Western Penn…
It has taken more than 100 years, but the Duquesne University Red Masquers finally have a home to call their own.
The show will go on, but some jobs were lost in the process. PICT Classic Theatre has raised funds to produce the season-ending production of "Oliver Twist" as scheduled, and in the process …
The show will go on but some jobs were lost in the process. PICT Classic Theatre has raised funds to produce the season-ending production of "Oliver Twist" as scheduled and in the process la…
The attention-grabbing installation of diverse faces titled "Humanae/​I AM AUGUST" was unveiled on the facade of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture on Friday, a cel…
A sold-out performance by 10-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune, which was to open the Trust Cabaret season Oct. 5, has been rescheduled for May 2.
Remy Zaken has appeared off-Broadway and on Broadway, but even she was a little awestruck when she saw a poster of her face plastered on the side of the O'Reilly Theater.
Pop phenom boy bands and Christian-themed music are the inspiration behind "Altar Boyz," among the top 10 longest-running off-Broadway musicals and now at the CLO Cabaret through Dec. 20. Th…
Quantum Theatre leads off its 25th season with a world-premiere baroque opera of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," joined by Attack Theatre, music director Andres Cladera and a first-ti…
It was like old times at Heinz Hall Tuesday night. A play was created for Rocky Bleier, and he took the ball and ran with it.
PICT Classic Theatre will be in fast and furious fundraising mode until the end of the month, a make-or-break date for the board of directors to decide if the final show of the season, "Oliv…
A world premiere opera, heartfelt dramas, and award-winning new musicals are about to hit the Pittsburgh Cultural District, which will come alive with the sights and sounds of "India in Focu…
City Theatre is closing the street to traffic and opening its doors for the Backstage Block Party, a free event Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m.
The Rocky Bleier story has been told at Heinz Hall once before, but never like this.
PICT Classic Theatre announced today that "due to a significant shortfall in funding," its production of "The Tempest," which was scheduled to open on Oct. 10, has been canceled.
John Amplas has heard the comparisons of "The Country House," the play he is directing for the Playhouse Rep, to Chekhov's "The Seagull." He gets the similarities, but when he looks at …
