Here is onStage’s current listing of upcoming theater, opera, dance, PSO, classical music and chamber music performances in the greater Pittsburgh area. In addition to their performances listed here, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has other offerings and activities in the… Read More ›
Month: April 2023
Passionate Delivery: Fun, Kindness, Connection Are on Mandy Patinkin’s Mind for Pittsburgh Concert
Pittsburgh CLO brings the stage and screen star to the Playhouse with ‘Being Alive Tour’ By SHARON EBERSON Bet you didn’t know that Mandy Patinkin makes his living as a mailman. He personally delivers notes by Sondheim, by Webber, by… Read More ›
Resonance Works Begins Weekend ‘Tour’ of Bach’s B Minor Mass
Outstanding Performance of Colossal Choral Work By GEORGE B. PAROUS Johannes Brahms said it best – “Study Bach. There you will find everything.” And in his Mass in B minor, Johann Sebastian Bach managed to add a little touch of… Read More ›
What They’re Wearing: Costume Designer Susan Tsu Outfits ‘Young Americans’ at the Public
By SHARON EBERSON Susan Tsu, the award-winning costume designer and Carnegie Mellon professor, had just administered a final exam when her face popped up in close-up, a Zoom call. You could hear the students bustling in the background. They have… Read More ›
‘Dear Evan Hansen’ comes to the Benedum Center May 2-7, 2023
By JESSICA NEU The 2016 musical, Dear Evan Hansen, tells the story of Evan Hansen, a teenage boy with debilitating social anxiety disorder who desperately wants to be found. Evan Hansen’s therapist instructs him to write a letter to himself each day… Read More ›
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – One-Night-Only on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at the Benedum Center
The program is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh Dance Council and BNY Mellon For the first time since 2005, America’s beloved “cultural ambassador to the world” and one of the most popular dance companies, Alvin Ailey American Dance… Read More ›
Dueling Debuts: ‘Young Americans’ at Pittsburgh Public; ‘American Fast’ at City Theatre
By SHARON EBERSON If you’ve been planning your local theater-going for the next month, you must have noticed the coincidence. It’s not that Pittsburgh Public Theatre Downtown and City Theatre on the South Side open shows within a week of… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera Winding Up Season with First of Two Contemporary Works in May
Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s ‘Denis & Katya’ Opens with Brandon Bell and Jazmine Olwalia Saturday, May 6th Pittsburgh Opera is ending its 2022-23 season with two back-to-back contemporary operas in May, with Denis & Katya being the first up… Read More ›
2023 Momentum Festival Mixes Past and Future
City Theatre’s New Play Fest includes Screening of ‘Feeding the Dragon’ doc; Tami Dixon Revisiting ‘South Side Stories’; Martin Giles’ Solo Show and More City Theatre’s 2023 Momentum Festival of New Plays will run May 18-21, coinciding with the final… Read More ›
Front Porch Theatricals’ Production of ‘Falsettos’ Opens on May 19th at the New Hazlett Theater
Front Porch opens their 2023 season with the hilarious, heartbreaking and genuinely unique, Falsettos, a contemporary musical about family built around relationships, bar mitvahs, baseball and AIDS. Snapshot: Marvin is a neurotic New Yorker, who leaves his wife Trina and… Read More ›

