All-Female ‘A … My Name is Still Alice’ and the Pittsburgh Premiere of ‘Bandstand’ Are on Tap for 2024 By SHARON EBERSON On a music-filled night representing Front Porch Theatricals’ past and future, the summertime company announced 2024’s two-show season:… Read More ›
Plus Stage 62 Announces a four show season AND a new theater company is announced. Little Lake Theatre had doubly good news to shout about this week: Along with the run of 2023 holiday-offering White Christmas being sold out, the… Read More ›
Passion and Hardship Follow Artist and his Lifelong Muse in ‘Flying Lovers of Vitebsk’ “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of… Read More ›
COMMENTARY The Annual Show Is a Collaboration of Three Unions, Benefiting Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank By Sharon Eberson You can feel it all around you. It’s that time when the air is crisp, football and hockey are under way,… Read More ›
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center has announced a 2023-24 season of events, exhibitions, performances and educational programs ‘that delve deep into the heart of African American culture and beyond.” Among the highlights is an evening with Herbie Hancock,… Read More ›
City Theatre Opens 2023-24 With a Musical Work That Began in Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border began with “an epic conversation” between the performance artist and his mother. The Yellow Brick Road that twice has… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON The North American tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical was delayed twice by COVID, once when we were all on hold during the pandemic, and again for the first wave of the Omicron variant. But if this show… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Jazz legend Billy Strayhorn’s story is a Pittsburgh story, in his lifetime and even now, when he is being celebrated with a world-premiere biomusical in the heart of the city’s Cultural District. Billy Strayhorn: Something to Live… Read More ›
The Blind Musician Stopped by Westinghouse Arts Academy and Won Over a New Group of Fans By SHARON EBERSON The students flowing into the auditorium knew they were in the presence of someone extraordinary as they sat down facing Matthew… Read More ›
The Free Outdoor Festival Includes Food, Art Vendors, Classes, and Children’s Activities Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) has announced a partnership with August Wilson African American Cultural Center and Hazelwood Local to hold the outdoor Open Air festival from September 29th to October… Read More ›
