The Public has announced that Shaunda Miles McDill, will be the Public’s next Managing Director. She will assume the role later this month and share organizational leadership of The Public with her producing partner, Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski. Shaunda McDill at… Read More ›
Feature Stories
Season Previews and Interviews.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Successful “Building on the Dream Capital Campaign” is Making Significant Investments in the Future of the District and Downtown
Downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District has come a long way since the depths of the ’70s and ’80s when it was Pittsburgh’s unofficial red-light District. From its inception in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has led the way in one of… Read More ›
Pittsburgh CLO Now Accepting Applications for 2023 Summer Internshiip Program
Draw back the curtain and learn the ropes from leading industry professionals! Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Pittsburgh CLO Summer Internship Program. The Program runs approximately 10-13 weeks, beginning in May through mid-August, depending upon the internship applied… Read More ›
Q&A: Chris Hoch, from CMU to Broadway to Aldolpho to ‘Jagged Little Pill’
Chris Hoch was joking when he said, “I tend to do a tour about every 10 years.” Since graduating from Carnegie Mellon in 1998 and jumping right into a Pittsburgh CLO ensemble role, that’s taking Gaston from Broadway to the… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Names New Artistic Director
Adam W. McKinney Will Serve as Organization’s Seventh Artistic Director Beginning March 2023 After a comprehensive international search aided by Management Consultants for the Arts (MCA), the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) announced today, Januarty 18, 2023,… Read More ›
‘What the Constitution Means to Me,’ and You, and Tami Dixon
The award-winning play by Heidi Schreck makes its Pittsburgh debut at City Theatre By Sharon Eberson Tami Dixon wasn’t looking for a big bear of a role when What the Constitution Means to Me came along. The co-founder and principal… Read More ›
Prime Stage Theatre Receives National Endowment for the Arts’ Award
The grant supports the world premiere stage adaptation of Perseverance which has been adapted from the book Perseverance: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Poland to America. Prime Stage Theatre has been awarded a $10,000 Grant for Arts Projects from the National Endowment for… Read More ›
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh’s Music Director to Step Down
After seven seasons, Robert Page Music Director Matthew Mehaffey will end his tenure with the 2022-’23 season. The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (MCP) today (1-12-2023) announced that Matthew Mehaffey, the choir’s Robert Page Music Director, will leave at the end of the 2022-’23… Read More ›
Applications are now open for Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama’s ColLABo, a one-of-a-kind laboratory for theater makers from May 22 – June 5, 2023
Led by Kyle Haden, Senior Associate Head and Assistant Professor of Acting at CMU School of Drama, ColLABo invites theater makers from multiple disciplines to come together and wrestle with production questions and challenges before going into rehearsal. Working out of the… Read More ›
Stage 62 Announces Their 61st Season
Four musicals: Sondheim on Sondheim, Something Rotten, Crazy for You, and the young audience-focused Freckleface Strawberry Part of what makes the Pittsburgh region a “theater town” is the longevity of our theater companies, one of which is Stage 62, a non-profit theater… Read More ›