By SHARON EBERSON Update on Saturday, January 18, 2025: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust website has tickets on sale for a 7 p.m. show only. https://trustarts.org/production/98660/performance/9…
By JESSICA NEU Cuba’s “most sought-after dance company,” the Malpaso Dance Company, returned to the Byham Theater on January 15th, marking their first show in Pittsburgh in almost fou…
The Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) presents its 15th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, January 20 with In the Spirit of Rev. Dr. King: An MLK Day Celebration Throug…
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council has awarded 36 Southwestern Pennsylvania organization a total of $180,000 to support arts and culture work and programming as part of the Pennsylvania Cou…
Prime Stage Theatre’s 5th annual High School Drama Awards, honoring excellence in nonmusical plays by student theater-makers, proved to be a big night for Pine-Richland High School. At the…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. While we try t…
By SHARON EBERSON A magazine article that cast James Bond in a new light changed Christopher Rivas’ life. Vanity Fair wasn’t the first to write that Ian Fleming’s enduring 007 characte…
Program of Debussy, Sibelius, Prokofiev & Sigfúsdóttir Works Given in a Manner Recognized By Music Lovers as a Rare and Special Event By GEORGE B. PAROUS Classical music lovers know, d…
The search is on to replace artistic director, who will leave after seven years to ‘have a more expansive and personal response artistically to the world’ By SHARON EBERSON Marya Sea Kam…
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast of the backstage drama Trouble in Mind, the 1955 Alice Childress play that debuted on Broadway in 2021, and was nominated for four Tony Award…
By SHARON EBERSON The actress playing Fanny Brice, Leah Platt at Tuesday’s opening-night performance of Funny Girl, opens the show with, “Hello, gorgeous.” That’s really not fair, to…
This article first appeared in Pittsburgh Magazine. By SEAN COLLIER Comtra Theatre, the community theater organization that has presented plays and musicals in Cranberry for decades, is clos…
Chamber Music Pittsburgh presents Sphinx Medal of Excellence Recipients Mesa and Cann in the January 20 concert. Chamber Music Pittsburgh (CMP) presents the Pittsburgh debut of trailblazing …
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. While we try t…
By SHARON EBERSON Playwright August Wilson will be honored posthumously with the 2,799th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. EST. Denzel Washington…
By JESSICA NEU The second in a series by onStage’s writers looking back on the past year’s performances. In 2024, Russell Wilson became a Steeler, and we were ‘totally eclipsed,’ …
Barebones productions will kick off 2025 with Jay Sefton’s one-man autobiographical show Unreconciled, written by Sefton and Mark Basquill and directed by Geraldine Hughes. The play, in wh…
Opinion by SHARON EBERSON & GEORGE HOOVER As 2024 comes to a close, here are a few thoughts for 2025. 10: Our loyal readers are cherished, and newbies are always welcome. 9: Here’s h…
Featuring: MLK Day Celebration, Visual Art Gallery, New Freshworks Residencies, Owning Our Future Symposium on BIPOC Institutional Ownership, Tribute Concert for Whitney Houston Kelly Strayh…
The year is 1960. A shy, smart 6-year-old named Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American student to attend a formerly whites-only grade school in New Orleans. Escorted to class by U…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. While we e try…
By SHARON EBERSON Little Lake Theatre is ready to ring in its 77th season in 2025 with good news not often heard these days. The Washington County company that bills itself as “the region�…
By SHARON EBERSON Award-winning director, author and educator Mel Shapiro, who headed the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and began his professional directing career at the Pittsburgh Playho…
One of Pittsburgh’s Finest Actors will portray one of Pittsburgh’s Greatest Playwrights when Prime Stage Theatre Presents Wali Jamal performing August Wilson’s How I Learned What I�…