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By Sharon Eberson Front Porch Theatricals has had to close A Man of No Importance before its final performances this weekend, due to COVID-19 safety concerns. The award-winning musical, fea…
Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University has been approved for a $30,000 NEA Grant for Arts Projects to support a portion of its “Shaping the Arts: Black Women and Femme Artists and C…
By Sharon Eberson Witnessing a slasher film from the safe distance between seat and screen is one thing, but just imagine being in the room where it happens when the masked killer strikes. N…
According to a press release from Lincoln Park the grant helps support this coming summer’s production of Memphis The Musical and Lincoln Park’s Diversity Initiative. Lincoln Park Perfor…
By Sharon Eberson New Horizon Theater ends its season with One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, a comedy set in 1970s Philadelphia that deals with the clash of values between middle-class and wo…
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD Little Lake Theatre Company takes on literary adaptations with Simon Stephens’ play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on Mark H…
By Sharon Eberson Tony Award-winner LaChanze, a nominee again this year for Trouble in Mind, is coming to Pittsburgh, one of the stars who comprise the 2022-23 Trust Cabaret Series. Two arti…
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Announces Full Lineup of Performing and Visual Art Attractions for the 2022 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, June 3-1…
The 250-seat Greer Cabaret Theater and Backstage Bar is one of the Cultural District’s great hidden gems – but it shouldn’t be. This is partially a function of its layout, tucked away …
The 2022 Summer of Musicals will feature the Pittsburgh CLO premieres of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE and SISTER ACT, in addition to KINKY BOOTS, GODSPELL, A CHORUS LINE, and the national tour of JE…
Opening This Week One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show | New Horizon Theater | Carnegie Library Auditorium, Homewood | May 27 to June 12, 2022 | https://www.newhorizontheater.org/current-produ…
Company Is Closing 9th Season with a Fine Production of the Tuneful Classic By George B. Parous Resonance Works overcame a glitch or two last night, in the first of two performances of Giuse…
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde By MAC Hoover The Celtic cross is a Christian symbol of a traditional cross with a nimbus or ring featured. The symbolism of a ci…
The Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University has unveiled the Inside/Outside Summer Series lineup and more than 30 performances for the 2022-23 season. The Summer Series features local …
By Sharon Eberson PICT Classic Theatre announced on Thursday, May 19, that its production of The Boys in the Band “will not move forward due to insufficient funds to cover production costs…
McMahon completes his tenure after two decades of unprecedented growth in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Sharon Eberson interviewed Mr, McMahon early this week just prior to the formal an…
By Sharon Eberson It is important, Front Porch Theatricals’ production of A Man of No Importance. Let me explain all the reasons why. It’s going to take a little time, so get comfortable…
By Sharon Eberson During the epilogue of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations, the actor portraying group founder Otis Williams reminds us that there have been 24 Temp…
If you have been wanting to buy single show tickets for this summer’s CLO season, wait no longer. “We are excited to welcome audiences back to the Benedum for our 76th anniversary,” sa…
Last week seven productions opened in the greater Pittsburgh area. (Scroll to the end to see this list.) Not to be outdone- there are eight additional shows opening this week and a new strea…
Opening This Week Momentum ’22 New Play Festival | City Theatre | South Side Campus | May 16 to 21 To register visit CityTheatreCompany.org Ain’t Too Proud | Trust Broadway | Benedum C…
By Sharon Eberson Some of the best edge-of-your-seat moments within the Misery unfolding in Braddock are wordless. Without the inner monologue of page or screen, through often excruciating a…
By Megan Grabowski For the next two weeks, the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall Studio is transformed back in time, 60 + years to the 1958 Springfield High senior prom. Pinks an…
By Sharon Eberson It’s good to be the boss, especially when that boss is a fictional version of Motown founder Berry Gordy in Ain’t to Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. The m…
By Bob Hoover In these times of war, plague, drought, wildfires, and domestic conflict, can we handle the despair of Samuel Beckett? Then again, “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.” Co…
