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Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States, commemorating the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the final enforcem…
Pittsburgh Dance Workshop Showcase is an evening that celebrates Pittsburgh’s dance scene. On the final days of the Pittsburgh Dance Workshop, a four-day technique and repertory intensiv…
Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre’s third annual Bards From the Burgh series will feature four readings of new works by local playwrights. Each year, PICT selects one play from the …
By JESSICA NEU After a successful tribute performance to the incomparable Carole King, Ron Carter, President & Executive Director of the Strand Theater decided that Beautiful: The Carole…
I watch the Tony Awards with Pittsburgh in mind, because the pipeline of talent between here and Broadway is, hands-down, among the region’s chief exports. It also is the awards ceremony t…
Checkout our summer long special edition of theater, opera, dance, the Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area through the end of summer…
Bonita Lee Penn, an award-winning poet and playwright, proudly presents Gospel in the Wake: a Poetic Stage Performance—a powerful, one-night-only exploration of faith, music, spirituality…
Pittsburgh Dance Company Marks Over 200 Premieres in 15 Years. Pittsburgh’s Texture Contemporary Ballet announces its 15th anniversary season, featuring four programs of predominantly n…
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has announced the inaugural naming of Heinz Hall’s stage as the Simmons Family Stage, honoring contributions of $50 million – including the PSO’s larg…
Quantum Theatre, Shakespeare and Carrie Furnace will continue their triple-threat collaboration – innovative company, The Bard and a historic site – with "The Tempest," set for the summe…
Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center concludes its 2024-2025 Clearview Federal Credit Union Subscription Series, Raise Your Voice! with the feel-good comedy smash Sister Act for six perfor…
The Chief is coming to the Pittsburgh Playhouse for the 2025-2026 Playhouse Presents season. The popular solo play about Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. returns Downtown to kick off 2026 at…
For his directorial debut in his new home, Jeremy Seghers is going somewhat more traditional than usual, staging Franz Kafka’s "The Trial," as adapted by Nick Gill, in the Rauh Theater, th…
BY JESSICA NEU (Updated with more images from the production.) Shakespeare’s Macbeth tells the tragic story of Macbeth, a general who receives a prophecy from three witches that he will …
So you don’t miss a performance of interest gthis summer, we present a long-range special edition of our current lineup of theater, opera, dance, the Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and ch…
A $10 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation – "among the largest philanthropic gifts to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in its four-decade-history" – has helped the nonprof…
The just-opened barebones production of The Shark Is Broken, in the intimate Braddock black box theater, provides a fly-on-the-wall view of men not at work. It is a bitingly funny nostalgia …
To be clear, this isn’t a review. To have a world premiere of a full-length musical in front of a Pittsburgh audience, presented by Pittsburgh CLO and populated with top-notch talent – f…
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced casting for the company’s premiere of Public Works’ Twelfth Night, an adaptation with music and a collaboration that includes more than 60 “citi…
Congratulations to Sharon Eberson for winning the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania‘s 61st Annual Golden Quill Award for Excellence in Written Journalism: (Division 3) Arts / Entertainm…
Singer ANQWENIQUE, Vocal Octet Reson8 Headline Four Pittsburgh Performs Concerts Chamber Music Pittsburgh (CMP) has announced its 2025 Pittsburgh Performs series, which brings innovati…
By JESSICA NEU This past January, playwright Darrin Friedman and director Art DeConciliis debuted Friedman’s original play Three Blind Mice. After achieving commercial and critical su…
The Scottish play has awakened passions since Shakespeare’s day, inspiring countless interpretations and re-imaginings along the way. Enter Mac Beth by Erica Schmidt, “equally giggly an…
For you vacation planners, so you don’t miss a performance of interest, we present a special edition of our current lineup of theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and cha…
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO’s 34th annual Gene Kelly Awards, a celebratory ceremony of recognition for excellence in high school musical theater, has crowned the 2025 winners among 34…
