The theater company known as PICT for short – now Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre, under the leadership of Elizabeth Elias Huffman – is going hyper-local for a fundraising reading series. Featuring four new works, the Bards from The Burgh features… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON If by Brouhaha, Squonk means an uproar or cause for commotion, that’s about right for the news that a supersized musical outdoor spectacle is ready for launch. Brouhaha is its name, following in the huge handprints of… Read More ›
New Horizon Theater will open the 2023-24 season with Webeime, a play by award-winning writer-director Layon Gray about the choices that brought a death-row inmate to his final day. The play will run September 28 through October 1, 2023, at… Read More ›
Brave Actions Bold Voices, the Fall 2023 KST Presents season, features new offerings from Mutual Aid Residents Dreams of Hope and PearlArts, a visual art exhibition in the BOOM Gallery, two Freshworks Performances in Progress, and premieres of Local and Global Performances from longtime Pittsburgh favorites and returning… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Playwright Theatre Company’s Annual Dive Into Wilson’s Work Was Playwright’s Favorite By SHARON EBERSON “When I first met August Willson, I said I liked Joe Turner the best of his plays. He nodded and said he did, too.” Playwright… Read More ›
Elena Passarello Returns to the Stage for the Tony-Nominated Drama by Adam Rapp By SHARON EBERSON It doesn’t get much more barebones than the role of a well-known writing professor being played by a renowned writer. That’s barebones as in… Read More ›
The setting at the Carrie Furnaces site has moved outdoors during preproduction By SHARON EBERSON For all those who believe in destiny, it was preordained that Treasure Treasure was meant to be Quantum Theatre’s Hamlet.“On a whim,” she had randomly… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON When composer Stephen Flaherty takes his seat at the Benedum Center Tuesday, before the first notes of his score for Once on This Island begin to play, visions of his earliest days in musical theater may be… Read More ›
Single show tickets for Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center 2023-24 season go on sale Monday, July 24th. Here’s a quick look at the Midland center’s ambitious season, that includes movie adaptations, a Kander & Ebb revue and a holiday tradition;… Read More ›
Blurred Bodies brings Grammy®-winning vocal band Roomful of Teeth and Pittsburgh’s Attack Theatre dance company together at Carnegie Mellon University’s Chosky Theater for an evening that expands the expressive potential of vocal music and dance. Blurred Bodies is a world premiere music and dance immersion into ten musicians… Read More ›
