By SHARON EBERSON Laura Benanti never once said, “Hello, Pittsburgh!” Nor did she mention a sports team during her second show at the Greer Cabaret Monday night. Instead, the self-procla…
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Will Open Its 55th Anniversary Season with the Family-Friendly Ballet Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s (PBT) Peter Pan will open at the Benedum Center on Friday, …
Step into the World of Imagination – Opening November 13, 2024 Bricolage and Enter The Imaginarium (ETI), leaders in interactive, narrative-driven entertainment, are excited to announc…
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 Iron Horse Theater Company continues its 2024 season with a riveting production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The play by Simon Stephens, based on M…
Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new speaker series Making Art Work kicks off five sessions on Monday with Mark Valdéz, artistic director of Minneapolis’ Mixed Blood Theatre, for a moderated…
For more performing arts scares and treats this spooky season, visit onStage Pittsburgh’s What’s On Stage, and check out VisitPittsburgh’s guide to Halloween events in Pittsburgh (it�…
R-ACT Theatre Productions, winner of Best Theater Production in Pittsburgh City Paper’s 2024 Best of PGH Reader’s Poll for their March production of So, There’s a Leprechaun Now?, pr…
Commentary By SHARON EBERSON It’s 10 days to Game Day No. 24 as I write this, and I’m feeling the pressure and the pride. I come to you today as producer of Pittsburgh’s 24th musical s…
By BOB HOOVER The patriarchy has taken punches to the midsection in two recent productions on our regional stages. City Theatre last month presented Salina Fillinger‘s farce, POTUS Or Beh…
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…
Outstanding Performance of Tried and True Standard by Giacomo Puccini Shows the Composer and Company at Their Best By GEORGE B. PAROUS Pittsburgh Opera opened their new season last night at …
By JESSICA NEU Miguel Muñoz, World Champion of Magic, opens Liberty Magic‘s 2024-25 season with his show What is Magic for You? Muñoz is a magician, circus artist, and Puntocero co-dir…
By GREGORY LASKI On a late September evening in a rehearsal room perched on the third floor of The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts student act…
Three Culturally Distinct Choruses, One Extraordinary Performance The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (MCP) presents its groundbreaking new initiative, CrosSING Bridges, with a free RAD Da…
By SHARON EBERSON Charles Gray, who served as executive director of Pittsburgh CLO from 1982 to 1996, years that included the founding of the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School …
Pittsburgh Musical Theater (PMT) offers another way to revel in all things Fall: gore, horror, and fun this Halloween season with one of the craziest musical experiences ever. While it of…
New Resident Artist Speaks of Upcoming Season Opener – and Himself Saturday, October 5, 2024, marks the season opener of Pittsburgh Opera, with Puccini’s ever-popular, always exciting To…
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 Bob Hoover Don’t you love farce? Of course you do, and City Theatre is giving you one of the most raunchy, pratfall-filled comedies ever staged in Pittsburgh. With its awkward subti…
By SHARON EBERSON City Theatre has answered the question, “Where to begin?,” as it launches its 50th season this weekend, with the official opening of POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbas…
By SHARON EBERSON It’s hard to imagine how a play with so much Pittsburgh heart and soul was met with such fondness in previous productions in Los Angeles and Chicago, and now that Andy Wa…
City Rewinds: 50 Years of New Plays‘ provides a decade-by-decade retrospective of the organization’s most beloved shows. City Theatre’s new reading series that celebrates some of the c…
Presents Debut of Its Reson8 Vocal Octet in Eclectic Program By GEORGE B. PAROUS Sunday afternoon at the Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside, marked the debut of a Resonance Works first – …
UPDATE: After this story was published, Susan Davey had to leave the production and was replaced by Phoebe Lloyd (Carnegie Mellon Class of 2023). By SHARON EBERSON “It’s a typical Pittsb…