1,002 stories by "Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
The University of Pittsburgh Theatre Arts Department has been experiencing a growth spurt that is about to make a little more noise around the Oakland campus.
Pittsburgh CLO's two-decade quest to bring Ron Raines to the title role of "Man of La Mancha" has its happy ending at long last.
It has been two decades since Pittsburgh CLO brought "Man of La Mancha" to the stage, and it was worth the wait.
Ron Raines has tilted at windmills before, in 1994, the same year his career "took a left turn" from stage to screen, and he was cast as "Guiding Light's" villainous Alan Spaulding, a role t…
Tommy Tune, who just days ago received a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, is the opening headliner of the 2015-16 Trust Cabaret series at the Cabaret at Theater Square, Downtown.
Summer outside the city is a time for many local theaters to turn up the heat on options for your vacation days. Here's a look at what's happening in places other than the Pittsburgh…
Bricolage Productions' immersive experience "OjO: The Next Generation of Travel" will have its West Coast premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse's WoW (Without Walls) Festival in October.
The Banks family is in deep trouble, but have no fear. The winds are in their favor, and the grand nanny of them all is about to swoop in to the rescue.
With a book by a diva and a clever title pun as a jump-start, Jonathan Tolins' creativity went into hyperdrive to create the one-man show "Buyer & Cellar."
PICT Classic Theatre has postponed its September production of "Saint Joan," replacing it with the two-character play "Educating Rita" as part of a planned restructuring that was forced into…
NEW YORK -- It was clearly a night for a different kind of fun at the Tony Awards, as "Fun Home" took home the coveted prize as best musical in a fast-paced show at Radio City Music Hall.
David Elder and Lindsey Bliven are popping up on stages from Philadelphia to Wichita as Bert and Mary in "Mary Poppins."
The 69th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, beginning at 8 tonight. It's a performance-driven show with the top musical nominees s…
Momentum 15, City Theatre's annual festival of new plays in different stages of development, features works by familiar names in the company's theatrical family, read by some of the most fam…
Viewers watching the Tony Awards ceremony last year saw actors Matt Bomer and Zachary Quinto represent their alma mater by announcing a new award to be presented this year by the Tonys and C…
Tom Lenk was a perfect fit for the items on director Don Stephenson's checklist. The actor who will star in Pittsburgh Public Theater's production of the one-man show "Buyer &am…
"Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women" is no secret to Pittsburgh. The show that was here in 2012 still enlists audience in the fun as two women, inspired by childhood diaries, relate emba…
Alan Ayckbourn plays with class and relationships in "How the Other Half Loves," and he has strict instructions for the staging: There shall be overlapping living rooms with a smartly appoin…
"The Last Five Years" is he-sang, she-sang testimony to the dissolution of a marriage " emphasis on the "he." Writer-composer Jason Robert Brown's musical built for two was inspired by his o…
The event of the summer can't come soon enough: Billy Porter's triumphant return to a hometown stage in his Tony Award-winning role as the star of "Kinky Boots." Mr. Porter…
There are saints among us.
Karla Boos has built Quantum Theatre's local "Q" rating on bringing the unexpected to Pittsburgh. The quirky company that could exist without a home, create a Baroque opera and produce a pla…
At age 35, petty crook Bob is mired in the belief that life has passed him by and lawyer Helena appears to be on the losing end of a no-win relationship.
Patrick Jordan knew what he wanted. It was the where that was proving elusive.
Audra McDonald introduced a song that she has made her daily mantra, and even thought it doesn't always work out, she keeps trying to "make someone happy, make just one someone happy ..."…
