Melanie Bacaling, Stage Director, Discusses Production Saturday evening, March 22, Pittsburgh Opera will give this season’s first performance of Puccini’s classic Madama Butterfly. In this new production, the story is moved to a realm “where reality and dreams intersect.” Chris… Read More ›
BY SHARON EBERSON Catch my interview with Marc Masterson on the CitySpeaks: A New Play Podcast, conducted in advance of Masterson’s return to City Theatre for Birthday Candles, at the South Side theater through March 30, 2025. The podcast is… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Having seen Kimberly Akimbo once, what I missed the most the second time around was not knowing what comes next. The Tony Award-winning musical that skated into the Benedum Center Tuesday is a boisterously fresh take on… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Justin Cooley speaks in the most humble terms of leap-frogging past college, from high school to Broadway, as a “strange transition.” Most people would call his life of the past four years a series of one amazing… Read More ›
Company’s 87th Season Will Be an Eclectic Array of Works and Venues It’s never too early to plan operas on the horizon, and Pittsburgh Opera today announced its offerings for the 2025-26 line-up, the company’s 87th season. Five works will… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON When actor Dihlon McManne reconnected with a friend over coffee and conversation, he was reminded of a play he had seen more than a decade ago. In its debut at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, where McManne had… 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 ›
R-ACT Theatre Productions, winner of Best Theater Production in Pittsburgh City Paper’s 2024 Best of PGH Reader’s Poll for their March production of So, There’s a Leprechaun Now?, presents The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson. Directed by Brooke Echnat, this comedy-drama follows four strong women during the… Read More ›
Commentary By SHARON EBERSON It’s 10 days to Game Day No. 24 as I write this, and I’m feeling the pressure and the pride. I come to you today as producer of Pittsburgh’s 24th musical satire/fundraiser OFF THE RECORD, as… Read More ›
By GREGORY LASKI On a late September evening in a rehearsal room perched on the third floor of The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts student actors Mia Hill and Charlie Kennedy sit on stools. Their feet hold fast to a floor adorned by sneaker… Read More ›
