A new space dedicated to “performance, culture, conversation, community, and food” is coming to Wilkinsburg, in the Community Forge space that is home to Bricolage Production Company. The announcement today stated that, “Thanks in part to investments from the Henry L…. Read More ›
Tamara Tunie, Tami Dixon and More Join Forces to Save a Stumbling Presidency City Theatre is getting ready to open its 50th season with an election-season farce, featuring a cast of formidable women who together keep a fictional administration afloat…. Read More ›
Evil Dead the Musical is on its way back for a fifth groovy, gory year at Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s West End Canopy. The cast for fall 2024 includes Brett Goodnack as Ash, a housewares employee turned demon-killing hero, along with… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON It took persistence to bring Andy Warhol’s Tomato home, and that, Elizabeth Elias Huffman has in abundance. The artistic director of the new PICT (Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre) first saw the play by McKeesport native Vince Melocchi,… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh Public Theater opens its 50th season with a 21st-century look at the classic thriller Dial M for Murder. As in the original BBC teleplay and the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film, whodunit is not at issue. The… Read More ›
I have come here today… to talk about the ground on which I stand and all the many grounds on which I and my ancestors have toiled, and the ground of theater on which my fellow artists and I have… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON By the numbers, the Pittsburgh premiere of Bandstand: A New American Musical is the largest show ever mounted by Front Porch Theatricals. By the emotional breadth of the show about returning World War II veterans, it also… Read More ›
City Theatre and three regional partners have commissioned Lauren Gunderson, one of America’s most-produced playwrights, to adapt Little Women for a coast-to-coast launch. In partnership with Northlight Theatre (Skokie, Illinois), People’s Light (Malvern, PA) and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (Palo Alto,… Read More ›
Deana Muro and Joe Jackson accept the challenge of staging a beast of a musical for Front Porch By SHARON EBERSON Music director Deana Muro called the prospect of Bandstand terrifying. So she had to do it. Director-choreographer Joe Jackson,… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home … Three Broadway shows in three nights (more on that later) and a “planes, trains and automobiles” adventure getting back to Pittsburgh, and I was ready for… Read More ›
