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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Announces 2026 European  Tour: 13 Concerts, 6 Countries, 9 Cities 

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Manfred Honeck, will embark on a three-week 2026 European Tour, performing 13 concerts across six countries and nine cities, including two performances at the Lucerne Festival; Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg; the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw; and as the only American orchestra at the prestigious Salzburg Festival. In early July, the orchestra will release an album featuring two works included on the tour, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 and Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances on the Reference  Recordings label. 

Signs of Inclusivity: ‘Another Kind of Silence’ at City

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It was no exaggeration when City Theatre announced that “Another Kind of Silence,” the world-premiere play that leads off its 2025-2026 season, “is one of the most ambitious shows the company has taken on.” Bilingual and bicultural, the plot unfolds simultaneously in English and American Sign Language (ASL), along with some Greek Sign Language, as two already-partnered queer women, cross paths in modern-day Greece and find themselves falling in love.

PICT’s ‘Aspirational’ 2025-2026 Season Opens With Satirical Romp ‘First Lady’

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On a lovely Sunday evening in Point Breeze, Pittsburgh international Classic Theatre introduced a three-play “aspirational,” with music to provide a taste of each of the show’s international and American flavors.
Coming up Oct. 2 is “First Lady,” by the Turkish-French playwright Sedef Ecer and directed by Adil Mansoor. The play is described as “a satirical romp through the last vestiges of power of an imaginary Mesopotamian country, [where] Queen Ishtar lives in a bubble, oblivious to the uprising of an enslaved people.”

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