By SHARON EBERSON The new name is here — Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh — and with it, the hope for a fresh start and the creation of a sustainable, year-round Downtown resident theate…
By JESSICA NEU From the iconic opening lines of “Circle of Life” to the timeless story of Simba’s triumphant ascent to the leader of Pride Rock, Disney’s The Lion King has embedde…
By SHARON EBERSON a.k. payne sets the stage for their new play with a voiceover about the 2019 study that revealed Black women in Pittsburgh experience poverty at rates higher than in 85% of…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of October, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularl…
By SHARON EBERSON Explorations of art and class, aging and death, lives well-lived and -loved, the good, the bad and the funny, are rolled into the Becoming Arts Collective’s second annual…
Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks rings in fall 2026 by reimagining The Merry Wives of Windsor “as a joyful, flamboyant celebration of pride set against the vibrant gay club culture of t…
onSTAGE PITTSBURGH CALL BOARD as summer 2026 comes to a close: With news about Kelly Strayhorn Theater's fall 2026 schedule; Prime Stage rethinking program model at 30; and a welcome summer …
Kiesha Lalama’s vision as the head of Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University is building for the future by staying relevant in the present, reviving cherished parts from the past, a…
The world premiere of the award-winning playwright a.k. payne's "BURNBABYBURN! the american dream" is a co-production of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company and the August Wilson House. I…
By JESSICA NEU Although Taylor Swift declared that August “slips away like a bottle of wine,” the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater proved that there is still much enjoyment to be had before the…
By MINGSI MA Since the musical’s premiere in 1997, Disney’s The Lion King has staged more than 11,000 performances. This poses an interesting challenge: After years of touring, the per…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of September, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regula…
By Mingsi Ma The Becoming Arts Collective marks the return of the Bridges and Stages 10-Minute Play Festival for its second year by introducing a new partnership at a new site, The New Hazle…
ROGUE ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH'S "ASSASSINS" FEATURES KILLER CAST The production of "Assassins" now at the Greer Cabaret fires on all cylinders in its choice of cast, a group of vocally gifte…
With news about 2026 Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Discounted PSO Student Ticket Program, the power of Les Miz, David Toole, Breakthrough Sessions at Pittsburgh Playhouse, and more. ICYMI:…
'RENT' AT THE GREER The Greer Cabaret continues asthe Downtown place to be for locally produced musical revivals. Coming up in September: BDE Productions rents the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust…
Michael McKelvey's return to Pittsburgh includes producing and directing musicals with Pittsburgh theater artists, starting with "Assassins," the Sondheim-Weidman show with Carnegie Mellon r…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of September, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regula…
FRONT PORCH GETS TO THE HEART AND SOUL OF 'COME FROM AWAY' Front Porch Theatricals’ second summer season offering is the first locally produced version of the 2017 Tony Award-nominated mu…
By CLAIRE STEVENS South Park Theatre’s production of Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti delivered a humorous evening with memorable characters and amusing theatrics. Directed by Jeanie …
By Guilherme Meletti Yazbek Ten minutes before eleven, I was already sitting on my folding stool, in the place where I was told the performance would begin. At eleven, five performers—Anya…
By JESSICA NEU When maybe-a-doctor, but definitely not a Mrs. Joan Watson (Erin Berger), arrives at 221B Baker Street to inquire about an open room, she quickly realizes that she will be s…
With news about ... PBT receives $1 million grant; PSO Passport unveiled; The Next Act, and The Next ...; naming the merged Pittsburgh Public & Pittsburgh CLO; Squonk's Joy Machine; Dall…
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of September, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regula…
TALKING "COME FROM AWAY" WITH LISA ANN GOLDSMITH AND DREW LEIGH WILLIAMS Lisa Ann Goldsmith was “a plane person” on September 11, 2001, bound from Ohio for her home in New York. Drew Le…