The 67th annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, has announced this year’s full performance lineup as it readies to make a splash in its new home, Arts Landing, June 5-7 and 11-14,… Read More ›
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Interview: Maria Caruso On Her New Projects, Bodiography, the State of the Dance World, and Inspiring the Youth
By JESSICA NEU Pittsburgh native Maria Caruso is known for many things – owning the dance company Bodiography, performing her own solo shows, educating, choreographing, producing, directing, creating, mentoring, and giving. Handling boredom, however, is not at the top of her… Read More ›
What Clicked in 2025: onStage Pittsburgh’s Most Read Stories of the Year
onStage Pittsburgh presents the top 15 local theater stories that captured readers’ imaginations in 2025. Festivals and activities roundups were big draws, along with exits and entrances, legacy prospects, and bold, new experiences. A few late-in-the-year stories continue to have… Read More ›
Return of City Theatre’s Momentum Festival Will Feature Joe Grushecky Musical, CMU Collaboration
City Theatre is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for New Work Development to bring back the Momentum Festival, a public reading series and laboratory for playwrights to workshop new scripts with directors, dramaturgs and actors.
Presentations of four works in different stages of development and a“new works slam!” celebrating local playwrights will take place December 13 and 14, 2025 at venues on City Theatre’s South Side campus and Downtown. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended.
Momentum will feature a Mainstage presentation of “East Carson Street,” a musical by Joe Grushecky, including two songs co-written with Bruce Springsteen.
PICT Readings Kick Off Showcases for Local Theater Artists
Theater’s Summer of Series has far-reaching benefits that were fully on display in the third annual Bards From the Burgh, readings of full-length plays presented by Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre. The four works by local playwrights were well-attended at the 90+-seat Carnegie Stage, a boost to efforts by PICT artistic director Elizabeth Elias Huffman to garner support for the possible next stage for each play.
2025 Pittsburgh Juneteenth Event Highlights
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States, commemorating the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation – 2 1/2 years after President… Read More ›