With news about MUST SEE events this weekend, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Extends Run, City Theatre Play Reading, Little Lake’s Patrick Cannon, Arts Landing, and more.
🎭 ICYMI:
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- PREVIEW: Director Griffith Digs Into the Art of ‘Working’for Front Porch
- REVIEW: Italian ‘Jitney’ Exudes the Essence of August Wilson
- REVIEW: Perpetual Permutation: Exhaustion in Jeanine Durning’s ‘The Play’
- REVIEW: Cheyenne Jackson Concludes the Trust Cabaret Season with Emotional Depth and a Beautiful Message
‘HEDWIG’ EXTENDS CITY THEATRE’S STAY AT GREER CABARET
City Theatre’s current production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, featuring a powerhouse performance by Pittsburgh’s Treasure Treasure, has been extended at the Greer Cabaret, adding five performances: 7:30 p.m. June 9,10, and 12; 5:30 p.m. June 13; and 2 p.m. June 14. The musical directed by Robert Ramirez marks the South Side theater company’s first foray into the Downtown Cultural District, in partnership with the Pittsburgh Cultural District. On opening night, Artistic Director Clare Drobot and Managing Director James McNeel announced on opening night that the current production of Hedwig had already surpassed single-ticket box office milestones for the 51-year-old organization Hedwig is on pace to become City’s highest grossing season production in at least 20 years, with the 2025-2026 season already reaching the largest overall box office sales figures since 2009, the City leaders said. Read onStage Pittsburgh’s review at https://onstagepittsburgh.com/2026/05/09/review-city-theatres-hedwig-rocks-downtown-cultural-district/.
🎟️ TICKETS: https://citytheatrecompany.org/production/100838/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch
At CITY THEATRE On THE SOUTH SIDE …
While the independent production of Sixty-Nine — Seventy continues in its opening weekend in the Mainstage lobby, City Theatre will present an in-process reading of Neighborly: a play on two stoops by Chisa Hutchinson on Friday, May 15, at 7 p.m. in the Lillie Theatre, across the courtyard on the company’s South Side campus. Developed through City’s Kemp Powers Commission Fund for Black Playwrights, Neighborly is described as “an unconventional buddy comedy set in Pittsburgh’s Mexican War Streets. The play follows the unlikely friendship between a teenage Harlem transplant and a middle-aged Yinzer as they confront longstanding divisions within the community they share.” The reading reunites director Monteze Freeland with performers Randy Kovitz and Bria Walker-Rhoze.
🎟️ Tickets at: https://citytheatrecompany.org/production/107912/performance/107912
LISTEN TO PATRICK CANNON ON ‘THE ART OF COMMUNITY THEATRE’
Little Lake Theatre Artistic Director Patrick Cannon, who has been going gangbusters raising the profile of his company, talked about “The Art of Community Theatre” for an episode of the WashCo Insider podcast. Topics included theater in the round, the future Canon Theater project in Canonsburg, youth theater education and apprenticeships, accessible performances, and upcoming shows, including Pickleball, by Jeff Daniels. Cannon shares his views about the state of theater in Western PA and beyond at https://patrickcannonpgh.substack.com/.
🎙️ Podcast: https://www.visitwashingtoncountypa.com/podcast/
WHAT WE LOSE WHEN WE LOSE COLBERT’S LATE SHOW
One of the advantages of having Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers film their late-night shtows in New York, is that they are a platform for Broadway stars to be promote their shows, engage with out-of-town fans and perform for those who will never make it to a Broadway show. With Paramount ending The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on May 21, that’s one gone, and it’s a big loss. Superfan and super-talented Colbert, who performed in a staged concert of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, at Lincoln Center in 2011, knows his theater. That was driven home on Wednesday, when a group of Broadway luminaries — the magnificent Bernadette Peters, Christopher Jackson, Annaleigh Ashford, Ben Platt and three-time Tony nominee and CMU alum Patrick Wilson (as a performer in Oklahoma! and The Full Monty; this year as a producer of The Lost Boys musical) — were on the show to sing Colbert’s favorite Sondheim song, Putting It Together. I am sad to see the show go for many reasons, but Broadway losing a late-night advocate is high on the list. — Sharon Eberson
Must-See Openings this Weekend, AnD ONE TO GO
Foolish Assumptions | Corning Works | George Roland White Studio at PPU | May 14 – 23, 2026 | 🎟️ https://www.corningworks.org/upcoming-productions.html
Working | Front Porch Theatricals | New Hazlett Theater | May 15 – 24, 2026 | 🎟️ https://newhazletttheater.org/events/working
A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the PBT Orchestra | Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre | Benedum Center | May 15 – May 17, 2026 | 🎟️ https://pbt.org/performances/a-midsummer-nights-dream-with-the-pbt-orchestra
The Pines of Rome | Pittsburgh Youth Symphony | Heinz Hall | May 15, 2026 | Free admission, ticket required 🎟️ https://pyso.org/tickets
Catch before it’s gone: Steel Magnolias | Stage 62 | May 8 – 17, 2026 | 🎟️ https://www.stage62.org
Arts Landing MAKES OPENING OFFICIAL WITH SUMMER LINEUP
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will officially open Arts Landing on June 5, 2026, with finishing touches now underway for the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 5-7 and 11-14, and a slate of summer programming, including live music, fitness classes, food trucks, family-friendly activities. All events are free and open to the public.
The first Great Lawn Movie Night of the summer, on June 25, is the 2025 film The SpongeBob Move: Search for SquarePants, with Family Fest coming July 25. These events are free and open to the public.
“Arts Landing was designed to bring people together,” said Kendra Whitlock Ingram, President & CEO of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. “Our summer activities will welcome residents and visitors to experience something new and return to the Cultural District often.”
For the full summer schedule, visit TrustArts.org/ArtsLanding. Find the lineup and details about the Three Rivers Arts Festival at onstagepittsburgh.com. The Cultural Trust and community partners are also expected to announce programming tied to America’s 250th anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh later this summer. For more, VisitPittsburgh.com.
🎟️ Reminder: The discount ticket initiative Go See a Show! is ongoing, with 18 performing arts companies and Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama participating. Find tickets at https://www.goseeashowpgh.com/, and read all about What’s Happening on local stages at onStage Pittsburgh.
👉 Don’t forget — you can always explore the next two months of performances, organized by date or company, at onStage Pittsburgh.
👉 Did we miss your show? Send us your updates at info@onstagepittsburgh.com so we can share them in Listings and a future Call Board.
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