After managing to provide live performances to small audiences (with free live streams to larger ones) during the difficult days of the pandemic, Pittsburgh Opera has announced more ambitious plans for its upcoming 83rd season. The proposed season comes… Read More ›
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What’s on Stage Pittsburgh | May 24th
After such a long pandemic induced intermission, live in-person performances are roaring back this holiday week, starting with Little Lake Theatre’s season opener, SHIRLEY VALENTINE at their new on-site open-air performance venue. Shirley Valentine is an ordinary housewife, caring for her… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera Closes Unique 2020-21 Season With Handel’s “Semele”
Pittsburgh Opera Saturday evening gave the first of six performances of Handel’s Semele, a company first, and the baroque opera will bring to an end a season that’s been full of firsts, and has not much resembled the line-up… Read More ›
On the Field with “The Wolves” Director Rachel M. Stevens
I don’t believe there was a more viscerally tempestuous and discombobulated time in my young life than when I was fully immersed in team sports. Questionably coordinated and ravaged by hormones, every all-girls team I played on–whether it was… Read More ›
Conductor Glenn Lewis on Pittsburgh Opera’s “The Last American Hammer”
Pittsburgh Opera’s “Second Stage Production,” always a sure sign that spring is around the corner, and this year Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi’s The Last American Hammer, will have its first performance Saturday evening, February 22, at the company’s Strip… Read More ›
Shammen McCune: On a Roll with Shakespeare Roles
Once more, Shammen McCune is immersed in an iconic Shakespearean role. In 2017, McCune portrayed Lady Capulet in PICT Classic Theater’s Romeo and Juliet. In 2019, she inhabited Caliban in The Tempest at Pittsburgh Public Theater and the assassin Brutus in Julius Caesar for Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks…. Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera Announces Next Season’s Productions
As is customary once its current season is at the midway point, Pittsburgh Opera has made public details on the works to be presented during the next season – the company’s 82nd. The list shows that the company remains committed… Read More ›
English Language Premiere of “The Mother of Fishes” to Benefit Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
On exceptionally rare occasions Pittsburgh hears the premiere of an opera. Operas in English translations are more common. But it’s a safe bet that the English language premiere of The Mother of Fishes at the CAPA Theater on February… Read More ›
Antony Walker to Conduct Pittsburgh Opera’s “Alcina”
Next up at Pittsburgh Opera is George Frideric Handel’s Alcina – a baroque work that, while centuries old, is anything but “time honored.” The opera (“Alcheenah” to American speaking ears) was premiered at London’s Covent Garden in 1735, revived for… Read More ›
2019 Round-Up!!
2019 was a preponderance of things: chaotic, joyous, concerning, impeaching, meteorologically unpredictable, mournful, hilarious, and so on. But in the sea of adjectives, expletives, and other descriptors for 2019, the one assessment that resounds most ecstatically, at least for Pittsburgh,… Read More ›