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City Theatre Packs Next Season With Firsts: 3 World Premieres, a Revival, New Start Times, Second City, and More
City Theatre heads into the 2025-2026 season with an expansive five-show subscription lineup that features three world premieres, a Pittsburgh premiere, a revival in the heart of the Pittsburgh Cultural District, plus a visit from the improv troupe Second City, making its South Side debut.
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Lucas Fedele Leads PMT’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in a ‘Music Forward’ Direction
Lucas Fedele takes the lead as co-director/choreographer of PMT’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” starring Treasure Treasure and Brecken Newton Farrell.
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‘Repulsing the Monkey’ Comes Home to the South Side; Pittsburgh Fringe Finale Spotlights Josephine Baker
By SHARON EBERSON Repulsing the Monkey is coming home to the South Side. The play with the memorable name, about the fate of a family-owned tavern on the Slopes, had its first staged reading at the University of Pittsburgh 10… Read More ›
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‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Under Way at Pittsburgh Public Theater
Nick: You’re all crazy: nuts.Martha: Awww, ’tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads. … Relax; sink into it; you’re no better than anybody else.– Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of… Read More ›
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Quantum Theatre Unveils the 2025-26 Season, With a Sneak Peek at ‘The Seagull’
By SHARON EBERSON Quantum Theatre gave a few dozen patrons a peek at the future on Saturday, March 15, with a preview of the first show of the 2025-26 season, the Joanie Schultz adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and… Read More ›
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Review: Emotions Run High as Time Marches on in ‘Birthday Candles’
By SHARON EBERSON Birthday Candles leans into the poignancy of one woman’s journey of 100 years, punctuated by personal events that warm and break hearts, along with the inevitable family rituals that span generations. The moving City Theatre production of… Read More ›
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Review: Church Choir Comes Together With Heavenly Help in Joyful ‘Sanctified’
By SHARON EBERSON Change is in the air at Easy Piney Grove Baptist Church, and for longtime parishioners, nothing good can come of it. Uncompromising, disapproving elders and rebellious youth in a dwindling congregation are among the woes weighing on… Read More ›
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Review: ‘Witch’ Casts Spell Over Carnegie Stage
By SHARON EBERSON The spellbinding production of Witch now at Carnegie Stage has inspired the punster in me, and in that spirit, the word that comes to mind most is “soul-searching.” In practical terms, when the devil is bewitched, all… Read More ›
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Review: Bonkers and Bittersweet, Anticipate the Unexpected in ‘Kimberly Akimbo’
By SHARON EBERSON Having seen Kimberly Akimbo once, what I missed the most the second time around was not knowing what comes next. The Tony Award-winning musical that skated into the Benedum Center Tuesday is a boisterously fresh take on… Read More ›
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Young Star of Broadway’s ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Returns to Tony-Nominated Role for Tour
By SHARON EBERSON Justin Cooley speaks in the most humble terms of leap-frogging past college, from high school to Broadway, as a “strange transition.” Most people would call his life of the past four years a series of one amazing… Read More ›
