Catching up With Michael Kooman and Chris Dimond
With 2025 coming to a close, the Emmy-nominated Michael Kooman and Chris Dimond have months of good will at their backs as they return to Pittsburgh for "I Will Be Me — The Songs of Kooman…
With 2025 coming to a close, the Emmy-nominated Michael Kooman and Chris Dimond have months of good will at their backs as they return to Pittsburgh for "I Will Be Me — The Songs of Kooman…
Here’s a glimpse of some of the live theater of the Pittsburgh holiday season, and the 2025 Holiday Market that has moved into the Pittsburgh Cultural District.
By GUILHERME YAZBEK The Riverfront Theater Company is currently presenting the production that closes its Sapphire Season, celebrating the group’s impressive 65 years. Next to Normal pr…
By MINGSI MA Philosopher Slavoj Žižek describes love as “extremely violent,” even “traumatic” and “catastrophic,” because it throws our ordinary lives off balance. He emphasize…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh stages this week and through the end of October, brought to you by onStage Pittsburgh. We strive to highlight as many performances as…
Pittsburgh Public Theater has been busy behind the scenes, launching initiatives to expand community engagement, as well as educational and workforce development. While announcing collabora…
"Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women" was put in motion by a mistaken premise. The playwright Lauren Gunderson was asked by a theater leader if he could read her stage version of novel. It w…
By JESSICA NEU After an enormously successful sold-out theater festival, The Becoming Arts Collective is thrilled to present their first full-length production, Refracted Light. This crit…
Call Board News and Notes: MCG Jazz's Marty Ashby Honored, Ticket Scams, Resonance Works, Front Porch Cabaret, New Hazlett Premiere, Quantum's Enron and More
Summer of Musicals features ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,’ ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Suffs’ Pittsburgh CLO has announced its 2026 PNC Summer of Musicals, marking a milestone 80t…
Denis O'Hare follows in the miser-to-wiser footsteps of high-profile predecessors as the Ebenezer Scrooge of Pittsburgh CLO's "A Musical Christmas Carol," which returns to the Byham Theater …
Little Lake Theatre unveils its 2026 season, featuring 10 productions that “explore how people build, reshape, and rediscover home.” The announcement includes “a new chapter in the the…
By JESSICA NEU Her pristine soprano made her the ideal Christine in Phantom of the Opera, and her fiery red hair made her the quintessential Ariel in Broadway’s The Little Mermaid. Power…
City Theatre is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for New Work Development to bring back the Momentum Festival, a public reading series and laboratory for playwrights…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh stages this week and through the end of October, brought to you by onStage Pittsburgh. We strive to highlight as many performances as…
What happens when two sets of New York parents seek a civilized response to an act of playground violence: one of their 11-year-old sons whacking the other with a stick, knocking out two tee…
Chris Cox, Director of Marketing and Communications for Pittsburgh Opera, recently took the time to discuss the production of Fellow Traveler’s with Shannon Crowley who sings the role of M…
RealTime Arts’ Free Ourselves From Stone: Ukrainian Voices Reclaimed arrives November 13 as the final event in a trio of live performances of Ukrainian folktales and music, woven with comm…
Extraordinary voices vying for best in show and a vibrant, pulsating production touched down at the Benedum Center this week, as Hell’s Kitchen made Pittsburgh the second stop in the music…
With News about CMU Drama , Point Park School of Theatre, Prime Stage, Iron City Circus Arts, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, The Cultural Trust and Stage 62 PITTSBURGH’S TOP THEATRE SCHOOLS PR…
It was 15 years ago that Patrick Jordan first read the Tony Award-winning play "God of Carnage," and put it aside. When he picked it up again, years later, something had changed. The Yasmin…
On the heels of last year’s sold-out performance, Texture Ballet unveils 14 Original Dance Works – November 14-15 Texture Contemporary Ballet presents its annual choreography program, …
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh stages this week and through the end of October, brought to you by onStage Pittsburgh. We strive to highlight as many performances as…
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Last night was Halloween, and arriving at the opulent Benedum Center was an experience in itself. Zombies, witches, and all manner of creatures roamed freely th…
So much of the play "Enron" is true to life, that to call it a dark comedy, you must emphasize dark, or as a cautionary tale, a better emphasis would be: beware. Quantum Theatre is retellin…