This Week Bottoms Up! | An improvised play inspired by Shakespeare’s comedies by Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Park | streaming | RSVP for Saturday, June 26 at info@pittsburghshakespeare.org to receive the Tiltify event link. The event link will also be posted… Read More ›
Month: June 2021
What’s on Stage Pittsburgh | 6-14-21
This Week The Current War | by Quantum Theatre | sold out for outdoor seating at Westinghouse Park, but available to view on-line | For tickets and info: https://www.quantumtheatre.com/currentwar/ Forbidden Broadway | by Little Lake Theatre | indoors at Little Lake |… Read More ›
IN THE HEIGHTS heats up the big-screen comeback and stands on its own as a joyful, heartfelt movie musical
By Sharon Eberson If you have seen one IN THE HEIGHTS, you have not seen them all. The movie musical now streaming and in theaters is reimagined, based on, adapted from — let’s just say it is not entirely the… Read More ›
On Stage (really- not virtually) This Week: Forbidden Broadway at Little Lake Theatre | June 10-19
Little Lake Theatre may just have become the first theater company in the Greater Pittsburgh area to move back inside their theater thanks to the new state mandate and installation of a all new i-wave air purification system. Forbidden Broadway brings Broadway’s… Read More ›
On Stage Virtually This Week: The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by New Hazlett Theater | June 10-11
In The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, young Evelyn is keeping two secrets from her family — her true feelings about growing up in Spanish Harlem, and her attitude about Abuela, her larger-than-life grandmother who’s come from Puerto Rico to live… Read More ›
Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse and Conservatory of the Performing Arts Announces New Leadership
Garfield Lemonius, M.F.A., has been appointed Acting Dean and Artistic Director of the Conservatory of Performing Arts and Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University. Lemonius previously served as Chair of the Department of Dance. Garfield Lemonius… Read More ›
On Stage This Week: The Current War by Quantum Theatre | Now to June 27
THE CURRENT WAR Presented by Quantum Theatre at Westinghouse Park, Pittsburgh PA Quantum Theatre much anticipated and sold out (but with a wait list and streaming option) leads the return to live performance with THE CURRENT WAR, by Michael Mitnick, a… Read More ›
Review- Quantum Theatre’s THE CURRENT WAR
THE CURRENT WAR by Quantum Theatre at Westinghouse Park, North Point Breeze Written by Michael Mitnick Directed by Tome Cousin Runs through June 27, 2021 Reviewed By Bob Hoover Carefully, Quantum Theatre has brought live theater back to town and… Read More ›
Quantum’s THE CURRENT WAR leads the way to the return of in-person Pittsburgh theater
We asked Sharon Eberson, the former Arts & Entertainment editor and theater critic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, to reflect on the reawakening of live in person theater with the opening of Quantum’s THE CURRENT WAR. Check back later this weekend… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera Announces Plans For 83rd Season
After managing to provide live performances to small audiences (with free live streams to larger ones) during the difficult days of the pandemic, Pittsburgh Opera has announced more ambitious plans for its upcoming 83rd season. The proposed season comes… Read More ›