PITTSBURGH NATIVE JACOB MING-TRENT’S “HOW SHAKESPEARE SAVED MY LIFE”
In a “history-making” opening night, launching the Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh’s Prologue Season, Jacob Ming-Trent performs his stunning, staggering solo show about trauma, survival, and becoming the Shakespearean actor he was meant to be.
Christian Borle’s career took a beat before it soared beyond his Pittsburgh roots. From Carnegie Mellon (Class of 1995) until now, with two Tony Awards and five nominations under his belt, his only appearances on Pittsburgh stages were with the touring companies of Footloose and West Side Story, more than 25 years ago. Borle is about to resolve that long-awaited return when he arrives at the Greer Cabaret Theater for two sold-out Trust Cabaret shows on Monday, November 16, 2026.
MUST SEE PITTSBURGH: CALL BOARD: A VERY MERRY WEEK FOR OPENINGS AND HONORS
“Georgiana & KItty: Christmas at Pemberley” wraps holiday trilogy at City Theatre; Statewide 2026 Window Keepers include Marty Ashby, Janis Burley, Clare Drobot and Ayisha Morgan-Lee; playwright Anya Martin’s works featured in new anthology.
PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE TIME TRAVELS TO THE 1980s FOR “GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN!
Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts and a Broadway-caliber creative team are set to bring the 1980s back with the new dance musical “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” directed and choreographed by Jennifer Werner, with orchestrations and music supervision by Georgia Stitt.
By HANNAH WING-BONICA Pittsburgh is known as the birthplace of the modern zombie movie and a top choice for Halloween movies. So it isn’t surprising that Bricolage Production Company chose to parody Night of the Living Dead, a classic horror… Read More ›
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK Walking into the Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios on Saturday night, I was met with something unexpected: the lobby itself had become part of the performance. Photographs, notebooks, handwritten notes from school friends—ephemera from lys scott’s… Read More ›
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK The black box of the Cultural Trust’s Peirce Studio had been shaped into something that overlapped theater and archive. Audiences found themselves arranged in a U-shape, surrounded by an environment that felt both like a set,… Read More ›
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added and updated regularly. Opening This Week Continuing Their Run Opening Next Week (November 16th – 22nd) Opening Later in… Read More ›
As Rose in Stage 62’s “Gypsy,” Becki Toth’s Broadway belt is creating seismic waves at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie.
By JAMES H. LEWIS In 1878, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, coming off a disastrous marriage, retired to Italy where he completed the score for Eugene Onegin and his Fourth Symphony. Inspired by the music of another composer, he then turned his… Read More ›
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