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By MARIA SCIULLO Sit back, but don’t expect to relax. Quantum Theatre’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari assaults from all sides, in a dark and cautionary tale of man’s capacity for cruelty…
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…
Conductor Christoph Eschenbach Returns to Lead an Attractive Program By George B. Parous Friday night Ray Chen, the “violinist and online personality,” returned to Pittsburgh and deliver…
Little Lake Theatre, a fixture of the Pittsburgh community theater scene, has announced its 2025 season, titled Adventure Awaits, along with the launch of The Lakepass, a new ticketing prog…
By SHARON EBERSON Jed Harris had declared The Odyssey for Quantum Theatre as his directorial swan song … until he was lured back by a tantalizing title. The invitation to collaborate came …
Bricolage Productions’ Midnight Radio is set to burst back on the theater scene with Die Hard N’At, billed as a “Pittsburgh-ified holiday romp” that parodies the action film and pres…
By SHARON EBERSON For those of you who give jukebox musicals a general thumb’s down, even you might find yourself giving a high five to & Juliet. Star-crossed though they may seem, i…
By SHARON EBERSON Brothers Malcolm Washington and John David Washington were in the spotlight in Pittsburgh on Monday, as they asserted how meaningful it was from them to be in the childhood…
Image control and message focus are vital to winning U.S. Presidential elections. A new play by L.E. McCullough suggests that the men who occupied the White House got there because of thei…
By SHARON EBERSON I thought I had every possible iteration of The Hobbit seared in my brain. Now I have to make room for another: Pittsburgh Public Theater’s mashup of clever staging, pupp…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area this summer. Wh…
By JESSICA NEU Any performance by the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater is guaranteed to be a masterclass in technique, poise, elegance, and intricate choreography. PBT opens its 55th Emerald Annive…
By SHARON EBERSON Corey Mach was on a balcony in Charlotte, N.C., last week, looking out at a cloudless sky and talking about coming to Pittsburgh as William Shakespeare in the hit musical &…
By SHARON EBERSON “Because after all, everyone deserves one song …” That goes for the female serial killers of RealTime Arts’ true-crime concert musical Angelmakers, which returns st…
By JESSICA NEU “To be or not to be” a Shakespeare historian… “that is the question.” Regardless of your Shakespeare knowledge, you can conjure up a general synopsis of Romeo and…
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh CLO’s 2025 summer just got one-production bigger with the announcement that it will present the premiere of Madame Clicquot: A Revolutionary Musical, a lead-in…
City Theatre ventures into spooky season this week, with the original Halloween storytelling event Ghosted: Tales from Carson Street, an immersive experience throughout the company’s South…
By SHARON EBERSON Black Angels Over Tuskegee, perhaps the best-known of works by Layon Gray, last week opened the 33rd season of New Horizon Theater, the writer-director-actor’s production…
Large Assemblage Applauds an Almost Exclusively George Friederic Handel Program By GEORGE B. PAROUS We have said before that Chatham Baroque consistently offers attractive programs, whether …
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area this summer. Wh…
New Horizon Theater presents Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee, the story of six of the first African-American aviators in the United States Army Air Forces. Black Angels Over Tusk…
By GREGORY LASKI STOMP has been around for most of my 41 years of life. I didn’t check, but I’d bet many of the members of this 30th Anniversary North American tour weren’t alive when…
Chamber Music Pittsburgh (CMP) kicks off its 2024–25 MainStage Live season with a collaboration between the Escher Quartet and violist Jordan Bak. Embodying the range of artistic v…
PearlArts, the renowned multidisciplinary arts organization, to announced its has rebrand as PearlArts Movement & Sound. This transformation unites the organization’s diverse initiati…
The new stage version restores Dickens’ original unpublished ending. According to Shakespeare’s melancholy prince Hamlet, “The play is the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of…
