A mix of Broadway classics and newer titles comprise the six subscription shows and three specials offered next season at The Benedum Center. On Monday, April 7th, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced the 2025-2026 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh season and… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON For 10 years, RealTime Arts – emphasis on the “real” – has set its creative sights on the people of Pittsburgh, their border-busting roots, and their place in the fabric of our communities. A taste of that… Read More ›
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 ›
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2025–2026 Pops Season, a lineup that includes performances billed as blending “timeless favorites, thrilling new collaborations and genre-spanning artistry.” The season includes the annual Highmark Holiday Pops, a performance with Ben Folds, and… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
The Star of ‘The Oval’ Directs His Own Work for Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company By SHARON EBERSON Even with rehearsals underway, Javon Johnson is still surprised that Sanctified is making its first appearance on a Pittsburgh stage. He chalks up… Read More ›
Marc Masterson, in announcing his retirement as City Theatre co-artistic director in June, also announced his imminent return as a director. That time has arrived, with the opening March 14, 2025, of Birthday Candles. Masterson returned to the South Side… Read More ›
Tony nominee Daniel Jenkins and Tasha Lawrence will star and spar as George and Martha in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The veteran Broadway actors will be joined by Pittsburgh-based Dylan Marquis Meyers and Claire… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Knowing the destiny of the unwilling participants in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment doesn’t ease the heartbreak stirred by the men of Feed the Beast. Writer, director and costar Layon Gray has the uncanny ability to create… Read More ›
