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City Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater Collaborate on Discount Ticket Offer, Through October 19, 2025
An early sign of how Pittsburgh’s largest producing theaters may share or merge services came today, as City Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater announced a collaboration to “take in more performances for less money.” The joint “buy more, save more” offer lasts until October 19, 2025, and is available only for full-price tickets.
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onStage Pittsburgh Call Board: September 18, 2025
Prime Stage’s Head(stone) Start to Spooky Season The annual invasion of Spirit Halloween shops isn’t the only sign that the spooky season is centerstage. Theaters are gearing up for Halloween 2025 as well, including the third annual Prime Stage Theatre… Read More ›
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Vigilance Theater Rekindles ‘Campfire Stories’
Vigilance Theater is scaring up another round of spooky Campfire Stories, with the promise of s’mores, singalongs, mysteries and things that lurk in the night.
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oSP Call Board: Week of August 18, 2025
Featuring: Confluence Ballet, Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks, Theatre Sans Serif, Mrs. Shakespeare, Pittsburgh Festival Opera and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Confluence Ballet Expands Its Voice with Live Ensemble Confluence Ballet is stepping boldly into a new era by bringing live, original… Read More ›
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Trust Cabaret Update: Isaac Mizrahi and Eva Noblezada Switch Dates
Issac Mizrahi and Eva Noblezada have swapped dates for the 2025-2026 Trust Cabaret Series, which puts Mizrahi in the leadoff position, on October 6, 2025, with Noblezada moving to March 9, 2026.
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Front Porch’s George and Dot Explore the Art of ‘Sunday in the Park’
Aaron Galligan-Stierle beamed through the Zoom screen when asked if he was familiar with the score to Sunday in the Park with George. He will play the show’s two artists named George – one, a fictional version of renowned pointillist George Seurat, circa 1884; the other, that George’s grandson, in 1984 – when Front Porch Theatricals’ production opens at the New Hazlett Theater, on Friday, August 15. Saige Smith play’s George’s muse, Dot, and her daughter, Marie, in the Stephen Sondheim musical about love and legacy, passion and sacrifice, art and commerce.
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With ‘Hangmen,’ Kinetic Theatre Brings McDonagh’s Gallows Humor to Carnegie
If there is such a thing as the “best hangman,” then it stands to reason that there is a second best.
Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy, “Hangmen,” is based loosely on the well-chronicled life of Albert Pierrepoint, the English hangman who executed hundreds of people, including 200 wartime criminals.
Kinetic Theatre, with producing artistic director Andrew Paul at the helm, will stage the play’s Pittsburgh premiere, opening August 7, 2025, at Carnegie Stage.
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Review: PSO Makes Movie Magic Minus, the Screen
An impossible task, it would seem to be, choosing symphonic soundtracks and creating a concert representing the breadth of movie music. It may be stating the obvious, but a good place to start is with “THE GOAT,” John Williams.
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Kathleen Marshall, Tom Viola, Kenny Leon and Paul Tazewell Among 2025 American Theater Hall of Fame Inductees
Kathleen Marshall, the three-time Tony Award-winning director/choreographer who grew up in Pittsburgh, is now an inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame. Her name will be inscribed on the walls of Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre, along with 2025 fellow inductees including award-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell and former Broadway Cares Executive Director and Western Pennsylvania native Tom Viola. Other 2025 inductees are Anne Bogart, Rocco Landesman, Richard Thomas, Kenny Leon, and, posthumously, Rebecca Luker.
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Director Adapts ‘The Seagull’ Through a Queer Lens
Quantum Theatre brings director Joanie Schultz’s gender-swapped adaptation of “The Seagull” to picturesque Chatham University. “What a gift to have somebody say, ‘Great, let’s do it,’” Schultz said of presenting “The Seagull” as a queer story. “And [Karla Boos] found this beautiful place to do it, and that’s been awesome. I mean, yesterday, we were doing a run-through, and there’s just like deer in the scenery, and you’re like, ‘OK. This is perfect.’ ”
