With news about: Attack Theatre’s new Leadership, From Pittsburgh to Broadway, Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s WOWEO, Rocky Horror At the WPA, Ghoul Girls at the Strand, & this weekend’s Openings 🎭 ICYMI: Attack Theatre Welcomes Sarah Kramer as New Executive Director… Read More ›
NIGHT OF THE NEW SYMPHONIC WORK INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT GEORGE ROMERO’S FIRST FILM
The world premiere of George A. Romero’s A Night at the Symphony, an all-new symphonic concert experience featuring an exclusive screening of Romero’s long-lost debut film, “Expostulations,” will be presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and performed live by the Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh in a one-night-only performance on March 26, 2027, at the Byham Theater — previously The Fulton movie theater, where Romero premiered Night of the Living Dead in 1968.
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 (October 26th – November 1st) Opening in… Read More ›
Welcome back, Fishy Woo Woos!
Monteze Freeland’s Fishy Woo Woo, Part 2 made its deliriously delectable debut at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company this weekend, more than two years after the original. Back are the four core characters, with two OG actors (Mils “MJ” James as Cordero and Cheryl Bates-White as Char), in a spooky Halloween mystery and secrets galore to feast on.
The witty and wise script contains so many rapid-fire references to pop culture, queer icons, and inside jokes (one, in particular, about the Pittsburgh theater scene), that you may not catch them all. In such cases, I take Noel Coward’s advice: “Never mind, dear. We’re all made the same, though some more than others.”
By MIRANDA SOUSA On a rainy October Friday, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presented Romantic Rachmaninoff, a BNY Classics program consisting of Sergei Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 125 and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s monumental Symphony n. 2 in E… Read More ›
By GUILHERME MELETTI YAZBEK The evening began before the curtain rose. In the darkened Benedum Center, only the orchestra pit was lit—and the reflected glow reached softly up to the theater’s ornate ceiling, as if the… Read More ›
Site-specific, immersive Quantum Theatre has touched down in Rockwell Park for the premiere of “radio island,” where director Katie Brook and star Siovhan Christensen explore a new work, “Where global crisis collides with family drama.”
By CLAIRE STEVENS Pittsburgh Playhouse’s production of The Bed Trick delivered an entertaining night of modern comedy while loosely following a Shakespeare classic. Written by Keiko Green,the play follows college roommates Harriet (Amalea Krill), Marianne (Quinn Starrett), and Lulu (Chloe… Read More ›
onSTAGE PITTSBURGH CALL BOARD:
RIP Dr. Nancy D. Washington; ‘Fishy Woo Woo, Part 2′ at PPTC’, ‘ City Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival & ‘in Clay’ on Home Screens, Casting at Stage 62, Quantum Theatre, & Midnight Radio; Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Byham.
It says something about human nature and the state of the world that howls of laughter accompanied outrage piled upon outrage in “Ulster American,” the savagely funny play at barebones productions Braddock Black Box Theater and featuring the terrific trio of David Whalen, Simon Bradbury and Christine Weber.
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