By SHARON EBERSON Billy Hartung and a few of his Broadway friends are set to help Pittsburghers kick off your Sunday shoes, lose your blues, and everybody, cut footloose. It’s been 25 ye…
The New Hazlett Theater presents the premiere of Teaira Whitehead, playwright Melanie Taylor’s new play about finding truths in Pittsburgh’s past. Inspired by actual events, Teaira …
By SHARON EBERSON It is evident there was a divine plan from birth for Sara Porkalob. Deliver her into a family of strong women with irresistibly juicy stories to tell, and have her grow up …
Resident Artist Tenor Speaks of Upcoming Production Next Saturday, February 17, 2024, marks the first production by Pittsburgh Opera of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Proving Up, a work …
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. Apart from the…
By JESSICA NEU My husband, Ben, and I just celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. We met 13 years ago, in person, at work. Had someone asked me the day before I met my now husband all of th…
By SHARON EBERSON Willie Dixon stands as tall in forging the foundation of American popular music as a certain “ten-dollar Founding Father” did in paving the foundation of our country. B…
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Pittsburgh CLO, has announced a starry concert production of Fiddler on the Roof, with Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley as Tevye. And…
The performance brings life to composer Heinrich Biber’s imaginative and dramatic Sonatas on the Mysteries of the Rosary. Chatham Baroque welcomes Grammy-award-winning Baroque group Apo…
Pittsburgh-based playwright Tammy Ryan has been named the inaugural recipient of The Boost, a new commission awarded to a woman, trans or nonbinary playwright over the age of 40, for a play …
The Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh, with guest tenor Timothy Stoddard, will perform the rarely heard masterpiece, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings by Benjamin Britten, as well as�…
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this timeless tale about the transformative power of love. Beauty and the Beast is a whimsical, imaginative storybook ballet whose charming characters and c…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. Apart from the…
“The blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits.” – Willie Dixon By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh actor Sam Lothard will channel blues pioneer Willie Dixon in the premiere productio…
Enthusiastically Received at Trinity Cathedral Last Night; Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church for Sunday Matinee By George B. Parous “The Lamps may be different, but the Light is the same.” …
Broadway couple Libby Servais (Wicked and The Strand’s Heroes & Villains) and husband Stephan Stubbins (Mary Poppins) will present their romantic musical celebration, Broadway i…
By SHARON EBERSON The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2024, with 1,288 grants totaling $32,223,055. Recipients include o…
By JADE GOODES I had the pleasure of seeing the opening night performance of The Lincoln Center’s Production of Lerner & Lowe’s My Fair Lady at the Benedum Center on Tuesday night…
The world premiere of Pittsburgh CLO’s The Perfect Mate has its cast. The futuristic rom-com musical, with book, music and lyrics by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer, was commissioned as part …
Marc Masterson will retire from City Theatre at the end of the current season, leaving the Pittsburgh artistic home where he was the foundation of a groundbreaking trio of co-artistic direct…
By SHARON EBERSON A who’s who of Pittsburgh theater artists served as presenters and cheered on students who were honored at Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards …
“Through the Wood, Laddie” – Music of Baroque Scotland and Acadia By George B. Parous Yesterday afternoon’s weather posed no hindrance for the very large crowd of music lovers that f…
Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards ceremony is 7 p.m. Monday at the New Hazlett Theatre on the North Side. The program spotlights one-act or full-length nonmusi…
Here is onStage Pittsburgh‘s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, Pittsburgh Symphony, classical, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. Apart from the…
Haldeman, an attorney and nonprofit leader, brings a decade of hands-on experience in nonprofit strategy and administration to the Cultural Trust’s leadership team. Hayley Haldeman | Image…