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Front Porch Theatricals Reveals Casts of 2024 Shows ‘A … My Name is Still Alice’ and ‘Bandstand’
Front Porch Theatricals has announced casting for its 2024 summer musicals – A … My Name is Still Alice and Bandstand – with familiar faces taking the lead in shows making their local debuts. The musical sketch revue A …… Read More ›
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In a First for Pittsburgh Public, Four Performances of ‘Dragon Lady’ Will Be Live Streamed Via New Service
Pittsburgh Public Theater will live stream the final four performances of current show Dragon Lady, through a partnership with the emerging nonprofit League of Live Stream Theater. In a first for the nearly 50-year-old Public and as a charter member… Read More ›
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Members of Broadway’s Original ‘Footloose’ Join Billy Hartung in Center for Theater Arts Benefit at Heinz Hall
By SHARON EBERSON Billy Hartung and a few of his Broadway friends are set to help Pittsburghers kick off your Sunday shoes, lose your blues, and everybody, cut footloose. It’s been 25 years since the musical Footloose made its Broadway… Read More ›
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Review: A Family’s Trauma and Triumphs Masterfully Told in ‘Dragon Lady’
By SHARON EBERSON It is evident there was a divine plan from birth for Sara Porkalob. Deliver her into a family of strong women with irresistibly juicy stories to tell, and have her grow up to be a captivating storyteller. … Read More ›
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Review: New Horizon Premiere Biomusical Pays Overdue Homage to Willie Dixon
By SHARON EBERSON Willie Dixon stands as tall in forging the foundation of American popular music as a certain “ten-dollar Founding Father” did in paving the foundation of our country. But unlike that other guy, Dixon comes with a ready-made… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Playwright Tammy Ryan Awarded First-Ever Boost Commission by The Leah Ryan Fund
Pittsburgh-based playwright Tammy Ryan has been named the inaugural recipient of The Boost, a new commission awarded to a woman, trans or nonbinary playwright over the age of 40, for a play to be written in conversation with Leah Ryan’s… Read More ›
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New Horizon Theater Debuts Willie Dixon Biomusical ‘Blues Is the Roots’
“The blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits.” – Willie Dixon By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh actor Sam Lothard will channel blues pioneer Willie Dixon in the premiere production of Blues Is the Roots, a biomusical by actor, activist… Read More ›
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‘Chicago Fire’s’ Jimmy Nicholas Is The Perfect Mate in New Pittsburgh CLO Musical
By SHARON EBERSON Jimmy Nicholas is an “and” guy, not an “or” guy. That’s how the actor explains all of the “ands” after acting jobs, including the title role in Pittsburgh CLO’s upcoming premiere musical, The Perfect Mate. A 2014… Read More ›
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Broadway’s Sara Porkalob Paints a Colorful Family Portrait With ‘Dragon Lady’ at Pittsburgh Public
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh theater-goers will soon have the opportunity to experience two writer-performers channeling multiple characters in distinctly different solo shows. While Tami Dixon is channeling local residents in South Side Stories Revisited at City Theatre, Broadway’s Sara Porkalob… Read More ›
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Review: Tami Dixon Dazzles in Solo ‘South Side Stories Revisited’
By SHARON EBERSON At the end of a decade marked by a pandemic, the opioid crisis and ideological division, we all could use a big hope-filled hug. In South Side Stories Revisited, the sequel to her extraordinary 2012 theatrical chronicle… Read More ›
