By SHARON EBERSON From the moment you walk into the Benedum Center auditorium, you know: This is something different. The modernist design that greets you – a bedazzled backdrop and a neon sign reading: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet… Read More ›
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Q&A with New Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Leader Kendra Whitlock Ingram
“I really truly own so much to Duquesne. If I had been at a different university in a small town that did not have the arts and culture that Pittsburgh had, I don’t know if I would’ve gone into this world.”
Review: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Reviewed by Jessica Neu In all likelihood, it is fair to assume that most of the entire audience was not at the open mic night in NYC circa 1970 when Carole King first performed songs off of what would later… Read More ›
Pittsburgh welcomes back a transcendent ‘Visit’
By Sharon Eberson It wasn’t a raucous crowd that welcomed Broadway back to Pittsburgh Thursday night. But then, the musical they were seeing wasn’t that kind of show. It was an appreciative audience, masked and vaccinated, that packed the Benedum… Read More ›
Foot-Stomping and Heartbreaking: “Once”
By Eva Phillips Overly melancholy Irish folk music really does something to me. Rousing, but also melancholy, Eastern European folk music REALLY does something to me. The two musical cosmoses intimately appeal to my fraught sensibilities and personality traits—Irish folk… Read More ›