Pittsburgh native Billy Porter has been named the 2024 recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, “in recognition of his outstanding dedication and contributions as an activist and sp…
City Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater are co-hosts of the 2024 spring meeting of the League of Resident Theatres, being held starting today, May 1-3, in Downtown Pittsburgh The gather…
Nominees Representing Four Counties Announced Broadway actress Arielle Jacobs will help celebrate high school musical theater excellence as the speaker at th 2024 Henry Mancini Awards, which…
By SHARON EBERSON The 2024 Tony Award nominations were announced today, with many shows having opened just this month to earn consideration. The mad scramble for Tonys voters included shows …
Pittsburgh CLO has revealed the cast and creative team of summer season opener Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, with Gabrielle Lee as Billie “Lady Day” Holiday, directed by Tomé…
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the premiere production of The Coffin Marker, the newest addition to Mark Clayton Southers’ cycle of plays set in the…
Three local students will represent Pittsburgh in the national August Wilson New Voices Competition, to be held at Pittsburgh Public Theater on April 29. In its 18th year, this is the first …
Forty-four Southwestern Pennsylvania creative entrepreneurs were awarded a total of $88,000 from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council to support their business’ general operations as part o…
“We are thrilled to announce that Springboard Danse is moving to Pittsburgh, PA!” So declares the new website for the contemporary dance organization Springboard Danse, announcing its mo…
The 2024 August Wilson New Voices Monologue Competition will be presented by the Bill Nunn Theatre Outreach Project tonight, April 15, with actor Brenden Peifer serving as master of ceremoni…
By SHARON EBERSON Before we get to the gender-swapped, contemporized Company that will arrive in Pittsburgh Tuesday, Kathryn Allison is required to talk about being in a room with Stephen So…
Pittsburgh Public Theater has completed the announcement of its 50th season with the musical Scotland, PA – tagline: “Macbeth with a side of fries” – that features a book by Fox Chap…
Artistic director Elizabeth Elias Huffman’s efforts to reimagine Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre and take programming to her hometown continue this weekend and next with “a thea…
The finale of City Theatre’s 2023-24 season imagines an encounter between famed pop artist Andy Warhol and a young Iranian radical during an improbable-but-true trip, when the Pittsburgh n…
Quantum Theatre’s next destination production will bring audiences to Allentown for Scenes From an Execution, directed by Andrew William Smith and starring Lisa Velten Smith. To conclude…
The 20th season of Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks – which coincides with The Bard’s 460th birthday – gets under way with the 11th annual Week of Will and includes an indoor readin…
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has announced a 2024-25 season of “new sounds, a sense of wonder, our city’s shining stars and ‘Beyond the Music’ experiences,” for its 129th year…
The new sensory-friendly show ARTfully UPlifting, created and performed by Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts students, will have its premiere March 30 at the Pittsburgh P…
Pittsburgh Public Theater has revealed the full cast and creative team for a new adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Jenny Koons and featuring David Ryan Smith as the …
Pittsburgh Public Theater celebrated 30 years of the Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest on Monday night, when winners were chosen at the O’Reilly Theater showcase. More than 700 stu…
The Kelly Strayhorn Theater will honor an American music icon with Simply the Best: A Tina Turner Tribute Concert with Dwayne Fulton, and singer-songwriter Chanell C.J. Harris among a talent…
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council has awarded 30 Southwestern Pennsylvania arts organizations a total of $150,000, as part of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Sector Flex F…
Updated with corrections. Grease is the word for Pittsburgh Musical Theater March 7-17 at the Byham Theater, with Maya Santiago and Davis Wayne as the couple of destiny at Rydell High. Maya …
A new voice on the Pittsburgh theater scene, Gold Pyramid Screen and Stage, LLC, has announced itself as “telling the stories mainstream won’t” with Lorenzo Boone’s play, The Awakeni…
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Pittsburgh CLO, has announced a starry concert production of Fiddler on the Roof, with Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley as Tevye. And…