City Theatre has paid tribute to the legacy of Kuntu Repertory Theatre founder and artistic director Dr. Vernell Audrey Watson Lillie by renaming its studio theater in her honor. The former …
By Sharon Eberson Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will present Mark Clayton Southers’ Savior Samuel at the “world’s largest event in Black theater,” the National Black The…
By Sharon Eberson Simon Bradbury and Andrew Paul go way back. So it’s somehow fitting that they both wound up connecting while both were in Las Vegas, even if their artistic collaboration …
By Sharon Eberson If you are a member of the Pittsburgh theater community, you know Billy Hartung as a performer; of course, He’s been to Broadway and back. As in back home, that’s back …
August Wilson’s Two Trains Running is running on time for Pittsburgh Public, but How the Hell Did I Get Here? will not pull into the O’Reilly Theater as planned. First postponed from…
By Sharon Eberson Seven hundred Allegheny County students were singing, dancing, and accepting awards and scholarships last night, marking the return of the Gene Kelly Awards to a razzle-daz…
By Sharon Eberson Front Porch Theatricals has had to close A Man of No Importance before its final performances this weekend, due to COVID-19 safety concerns. The award-winning musical, fea…
Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University has been approved for a $30,000 NEA Grant for Arts Projects to support a portion of its “Shaping the Arts: Black Women and Femme Artists and C…
By Sharon Eberson Witnessing a slasher film from the safe distance between seat and screen is one thing, but just imagine being in the room where it happens when the masked killer strikes. N…
By Sharon Eberson New Horizon Theater ends its season with One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, a comedy set in 1970s Philadelphia that deals with the clash of values between middle-class and wo…
By Sharon Eberson Tony Award-winner LaChanze, a nominee again this year for Trouble in Mind, is coming to Pittsburgh, one of the stars who comprise the 2022-23 Trust Cabaret Series. Two arti…
By Sharon Eberson It is important, Front Porch Theatricals’ production of A Man of No Importance. Let me explain all the reasons why. It’s going to take a little time, so get comfortable…
By Sharon Eberson During the epilogue of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations, the actor portraying group founder Otis Williams reminds us that there have been 24 Temp…
By Sharon Eberson It’s good to be the boss, especially when that boss is a fictional version of Motown founder Berry Gordy in Ain’t to Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. The m…
By Sharon Ebderson The nominees for the 31st Annual Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater, this year representing 32 schools in Allegheny County, were announced thi…
By Sharon Eberson Thoughts of cabaret nights in Pittsburgh usually conjure the local and national headliners who grace the Greer Cabaret, Downtown. But some familiar names, in a perhaps unfa…
By Sharon Eberson Patrick Jordan is giddy with anticipation these days, having spent much of the past two-plus years keeping up our spirits while working tirelessly toward this moment when b…
By Sharon Eberson Oh, the places you’ll go. Take Jaquel Spivey, who graduated from Point Park University last year with a degree in Musical Theatre. This year is a Tony Award nominee. For …
A cohort of five Pittsburgh arts groups has created the Talent & Equity Director position and today announced Fatima Bunafoor as the choice to “advance equity and inclusion practices a…
By Sharon Eberson It’s been a long time coming, Richard Thomas onstage as Atticus Finch. He was announced to lead the tour back in May 2019 – that was the second appearance of Pittsburgh…
By Sharon Eberson Robert Ramirez was named to head the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, one of the most prestigious theater arts programs in the world. Ramirez will be on the job …
By Sharon Eberson It’s not your typical PICT Classic Theatre offering, The Boys in the Band. Still, as a play that has been heralded as “a true theatrical game-changer,” it certainly f…
By Sharon Eberson Ken Gargaro makes the bold statement that Jesus Christ Superstar in the West End will “inaugurate a new chapter in the history of Pittsburgh Musical Theater.” His own r…
By Sharon Eberson It would be nice if time travel was as easy as saying: “See you later. It’s later.” In Will Arbery‘s Plano, people go from now to then just that quickly. “That su…
By Sharon Eberson The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Children’s Theater Festival marches into its 36th year with a return to in-person festivities May 14-15. Activities and performances by …