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…
By SHARON EBERSON The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2024, with 1,288 grants totaling $32,223,055. Recipients include o…
The world premiere of Pittsburgh CLO’s The Perfect Mate has its cast. The futuristic rom-com musical, with book, music and lyrics by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer, was commissioned as part …
Marc Masterson will retire from City Theatre at the end of the current season, leaving the Pittsburgh artistic home where he was the foundation of a groundbreaking trio of co-artistic direct…
By SHARON EBERSON A who’s who of Pittsburgh theater artists served as presenters and cheered on students who were honored at Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards …
Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards ceremony is 7 p.m. Monday at the New Hazlett Theatre on the North Side. The program spotlights one-act or full-length nonmusi…
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company settles into its Madison Arts Center home this year, starting in April with the biomusical Dinah and the return to the August Wilson House backyard sta…
How do children in Ukraine see their world and their future after two years of war? RealTime Arts heads into 2024 embarking on its next large-scale “hyperlocal-meets-international” pro…
South Park Theatre has gathered a mix of comedy and drama and mystery and music to fill its 2024 Mainstage schedule. The upcoming season opens on May 2 with a British comedy about infideli…
By SHARON EBERSON One of my favorite gags in Who’s Holiday!, the R-rated Christmas parody at the Greer Cabaret throughout December, occurred quite by accident at Saturday night’s perform…
Plus Stage 62 Announces a four show season AND a new theater company is announced. Little Lake Theatre had doubly good news to shout about this week: Along with the run of 2023 holiday-offer…
Two-time Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris will be home for the holidays for the second straight year, when he returns as Ebenezer Scrooge in Pittsburgh CLO’s 32nd annual production of A …