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By BOB HOOVER How many versions of Hamlet have we seen? In my life, at least a dozen. (I was an English major). My previous was at the Globe Theatre in London, a fast-paced, almost breathl…
By JESSICA NEU It’s the 1950s in New York City. The war is over, the lights are bright, the nights are long, and the bets are big in the classic musical Guys & Dolls. With music by F…
By SHARON EBERSON In the midst of their whirlwind rehearsal schedule, Lesli Margherita and Matthew Saldivar – Pittsburgh CLO‘s Miss Adelaide and Nathan Detroit – were on the phone, tal…
By BOB HOOVER Defeated, angry Black men are at the center of numerous August Wilson plays. Still, none is angrier and more dangerous than Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, no…
Presenting onStage’s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, PSO, classical music, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. As we step into September, the u…
New Horizon Theater will open the 2023-24 season with Webeime, a play by award-winning writer-director Layon Gray about the choices that brought a death-row inmate to his final day. The play…
By SHARON EBERSON To be Hamlet is to be a student prince bound to seek revenge for his father’s death, and to be indecisive in the task. Anything else is as you like it. More to the point…
Shadows of Past Pandemics Surround Audiences at the Bitz Opera Factory, opening August 18th. Uncumber Theatrics invites patrons into the Lumintorium to witness Wee Beasties, a shadow …
Brave Actions Bold Voices, the Fall 2023 KST Presents season, features new offerings from Mutual Aid Residents Dreams of Hope and PearlArts, a visual art exhibition in the BOOM Gallery, …
Do you feel a hint of autumn in the air? It may be hot as Hadestown outside, but back to school shopping is in high gear, and in the Pittsburgh Cultural District, it’s nearly time to Greer…
Now and Then, a play by Sean Grennan, is a heartfelt romantic comedy about the costs of the choices we make and the people who make them with us. Sometimes what happens after last call ju…
Presenting onStage’s current lineup of upcoming theater, opera, dance, PSO, classical music, and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. As we step into September, the u…
Pittsburgh Playwright Theatre Company’s Annual Dive Into Wilson’s Work Was Playwright’s Favorite By SHARON EBERSON “When I first met August Willson, I said I liked Joe Turner the bes…
By BOB HOOVER Plaudits go to the South Park Theatre for taking on this difficult play about American history by playwright and screenwriter Melanie Marnich. Known for her work on the HBO s…
Brilliant Finale to ‘Summer Shorts’ Series Offered Splendid Program By GEORGE B. PAROUS The last of the three PSO @ THE O’REILLY SUMMER SHORTS concerts played to a large audience last …
Elena Passarello Returns to the Stage for the Tony-Nominated Drama by Adam Rapp By SHARON EBERSON It doesn’t get much more barebones than the role of a well-known writing professor being p…
By MARIA SCIULLO When gods make bets, the real losers are never the gods. Such are the stories that pass from generation to generation, and such is the dilemma for Ti Moune, a passionate you…
Liberty Magic offers a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience by hosting magicians year-round to perform in the intimate 66-seat speakeasy theater. From impossibly funny moments to dark and off…
The setting at the Carrie Furnaces site has moved outdoors during preproduction By SHARON EBERSON For all those who believe in destiny, it was preordained that Treasure Treasure was meant to…
The season features 13 moments to choose from, including the reigning queen of bossa nova, Eliane Elias; NEA Jazz Master Hubert Laws, Smooth jazz saxophonist Gerald Albright, and a lineup…
Here is onStage’s current listing of upcoming theater, opera, dance, PSO, classical music and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. In addition to their performances l…
Previously workshopped by the Duquesne Red Masquers in March, the premiere runs July 27 – 30 & August 3 -6 at the Genesius Theater on Duquesne’s campus. Set in present-day Pittsburgh…
By YVONNE HUDSON You will be amazed and know not what to say–you will be too busy laughing! When a regional company moving into its seventh decade takes on a cunningly crafter musical sati…
Pittsburgh Shakespeare In The Parks Continues Its 19th Season with an All-Female Cleopatra & Antony, September 2-October 1, 2023 Politics meets passion in the timeless story of Cleopa…
By SHARON EBERSON When composer Stephen Flaherty takes his seat at the Benedum Center Tuesday, before the first notes of his score for Once on This Island begin to play, visions of his earli…
