Front Porch Theatricals has announced casting for its 2024 summer musicals – A … My Name is Still Alice and Bandstand – with familiar faces taking the lead in shows making their local debuts. The musical sketch revue A …… Read More ›
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Members of Broadway’s Original ‘Footloose’ Join Billy Hartung in Center for Theater Arts Benefit at Heinz Hall
By SHARON EBERSON Billy Hartung and a few of his Broadway friends are set to help Pittsburghers kick off your Sunday shoes, lose your blues, and everybody, cut footloose. It’s been 25 years since the musical Footloose made its Broadway… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh CLO Collaborate on ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Concerts, Starring Tony-Winner Shuler Hensley
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Pittsburgh CLO, has announced a starry concert production of Fiddler on the Roof, with Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley as Tevye. Andy Einhorn will conduct the PSO in three concerts, February 23-25, 2024, featuring… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Playwrights Tees Up 2024 with ‘Dinah,’ August Wilson’s ‘Radio Golf’ and More
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company settles into its Madison Arts Center home this year, starting in April with the biomusical Dinah and the return to the August Wilson House backyard stage, with Radio Golf. The season, with no specific dates at… Read More ›
Broadway’s Sara Porkalob Paints a Colorful Family Portrait With ‘Dragon Lady’ at Pittsburgh Public
By SHARON EBERSON Pittsburgh theater-goers will soon have the opportunity to experience two writer-performers channeling multiple characters in distinctly different solo shows. While Tami Dixon is channeling local residents in South Side Stories Revisited at City Theatre, Broadway’s Sara Porkalob… Read More ›
Crystal Manich Glides Home With Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Crystal’ Ice Show
By SHARON EBERSON It is purely coincidence that Cirque du Soleil’s Crystal, the ice show coming to PPG Arena January 18-21, is led by Crystal Manich. Her resume by any other name would be quite enough. The Mt. Lebanon native… Read More ›
RealTime Arts Developing Project to Give Voice to Ukraine’s Children
How do children in Ukraine see their world and their future after two years of war? RealTime Arts heads into 2024 embarking on its next large-scale “hyperlocal-meets-international” project, along with presenting revisiting a couple of past performances. The Pittsburgh-based company… Read More ›
Free Programming Picks Up Pace at Greer Cabaret’s Lounge
By SHARON EBERSON My Facebook timeline has of late been lighting up with exciting free programming at the Lounge at the Greer Cabaret Theater, in addition to the Trust Cabaret Series, CLO Cabaret shows that are set to take place a… Read More ›
A License to be Naughty: Lara Hayhurst Leaves No $#%@! Words Unturned in Seussian Parody ‘Who’s Holiday!’
By SHARON EBERSON Wanna find outWho’s naughty or niceAnd not have to askIf Santa checked twice?If you’re thinking it’s Scrooge,It could be, that’s true.But I’ll tell you right now:It’s Cindy Lou Who, that’s who!And who should be seen As the adult… Read More ›
‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Provides a Showcase for the Talented Mr. Rob McClure
COMMENTARY By SHARON EBERSON When I see the words “Starring Rob McClure,” I think, “I’m all in.” So tonight, when he and wife Maggie Lakis take the Benedum Center stage in the musical comedy Mrs. Doubtfire, I’ll be there. I… Read More ›