With 2026 Dollar Bank Three RIvers Arts Festival opening in its new Arts Landing home, the next phase of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Downtown renovations turn to Katz Plaza and the Byham and O’Reilly Theaters.
Alumni Theater Company has announced a venue change for its summer production of Once on This Island. Originally scheduled to be presented at the O’Reilly Theater, the production will now take place at the University of Pittsburgh’s Charity Randall Theatre.
Pittsburgh CLO has announced the casts of productions for its 2026 summer season, a mix of frequent PCLO performers, Pittsburgh-based artists, and newcomers. After 80 seasons as the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, this is the company’s final season of locally produced professional musicals under that name. A new entity that combines elements of Pittsburgh Public Theater and Pittsburgh CLO will be announced in January 2027. Also this summer, PCLO also will presents the National Tour of Suffs, July 21-16, 2026.
It’s Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival and Tony Awards weekend!
Also on the Call Board:
🎭 Pittsburgh Playwrights ‘Art of the Wise’ is headed to the International Black Theatre Festival, where 2026 honorees include local stage manager Renee B. Sorrell.
🎭 City Theatre Seeks Artistic Producer
🎵 Pittsburgh Opera names Rehearsal Hall in Honor of Christopher Hahn
🎭 New Product Company’s ‘Whistleblowers’
⭐️ And More!
2026 JUNETEENTH EVENTS
In Pittsburgh and beyond:
* Live entertaiment
* Annual parade
* Family-friendly activities
* Educational opportunities
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REVIEW: “PICKLEBALL” at LITTLE LAKE SERVES UP LAUGHS.
I took along a good friend who plays pickleball to see the Jeff Daniels satire about the sport, and nonstop laughter told me all I needed to know. “Pickleball’s” dinks and bangers aside, this madcap satire of the fastest-growing game in America serves as an endless vessel for sports obsession, skewed socialization, aches and pains, triumphs and catastrophes, with each measurable in seismic proportions.
Here’s your guide to what’s happening on Pittsburgh area stages this week and through the end of August, from onStage Pittsburgh. Check back frequently as shows are being added regularly. Opening This Week Continuing Their Run Opening Next Week (June… Read More ›
By MINGSI MA Coconut Cake, staged by New Horizon Theater and part of the Public Presents series, is a delightful treat. Written by Chicago-based African American playwright Melda Beaty, it takes place in a setting that does not serve coconut cake despite its delicious title: a McDonald’s on… Read More ›
With news about Throughline Theatre, Jimmy Awards, Throughline’s Living News Festival, CLO’s Beautiful, SQUONK at the Three Rivers Arts Festival 🎭 ICYMI THROUGHLINE THEATRE’S LIVING NEWS FESTIVAL IS BACK! Breaking news from Throughline Theatre Company: The Living News Festival returns… Read More ›
A CONVERSATION WITH “RAGTIME” COMPOSER AND DORMONT NATIVE STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Coming home to accept the Richard Rodgers Award is “a big, beautiful arc,” Stephen Flaherty was saying just the other day. Catching up with Flaherty was no easy task – he and his songwriting partner, lyricist Lynn Ahrens, have been on a seemingly endless red-carpet ride with the acclaimed revival of “Ragtime” ahead of the 2026 Tony Awards on June 7. Flaherty will then head home to the Pittsburgh CLO Gala on June 12, when he will become receive the award that has been bestowed on an impressive list of luminaries, starting with Mary Martin in 1988.
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