Season Previews and Interviews.
The search is on to replace artistic director, who will leave after seven years to ‘have a more expansive and personal response artistically to the world’ By SHARON EBERSON Marya Sea Kaminski, who guided Pittsburgh Public Theater through the pandemic… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Little Lake Theatre is ready to ring in its 77th season in 2025 with good news not often heard these days. The Washington County company that bills itself as “the region’s premier community theater” is reporting record-breaking… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Award-winning director, author and educator Mel Shapiro, who headed the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and began his professional directing career at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, has died at age 89. Playbill.com first reported Mr. Shapiro’s passing, on… Read More ›
Nominees were announced this week for Prime Stage Theatre’s 5th Annual High School Drama Awards to be presented on Jan. 11, 2025, at the Hillman Center for the Performing Arts in Fox Chapel. The Drama Awards honors excellence in non-musical plays by… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON It’s been a bumpy road to get to the best-of list, with a forecast of potholes and promise for the foreseeable future. So fasten your seatbelts, and let’s go. If achievement were assessed solely in artistry, then… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON It’s A Musical Christmas Carol for the hat trick, in Charles Shaughnessy’s 21-year journey with Pittsburgh CLO. The UK-born 5th Baron Shaughnessy, who most TV audiences discovered via the soap Days of our Lives and primetime’s The… Read More ›
Freeland Embraces the Opportunity to Advance the Future of Black Arts in Pittsburgh. He will assume this new leadership role and kick off ATC’s season in June 2025. ATC’s Board Chair Tracy Edmunds states, “We “are thrilled to announce Monteze as… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Sherlock Holmes is the gift that keeps on giving to David Whalen and Andrew Paul, with another package about to be unwrapped for fans of both the timeless fictional detective and Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic. A Sherlock… Read More ›
Lindsay Anne Herring is currently a Critical Insight fellow at Pittsburgh Public Theater in partnership with American Theatre magazine. By LINDSAY ANNE HERRING During the crazed rush of performance previews and tech week for The Hobbit, now running at Pittsburgh… Read More ›
