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 ›
Billy Hartung
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 ›
A Very Warm and Cozy Welcome to Norm Lewis’ Living Room at the Trust Cabaret
By JESSICA NEU Multi-hyphenate tour-de-force talent Norm Lewis took the stage at the O’ReillyTheater on May 8th as the final performer in the 2022-23 Cabaret Series. He opened his 90-minute set with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things.” I suspect… Read More ›
Broadway Star Rema Webb Headed to Heinz Hall for Center for the Arts Event
Award-winning Broadway star Rema Webb, fresh from The Music Man on Broadway, headlines the annual Center for Theater Arts‘ One Night Only gala at Heinz Hall on March 11. The Clairton native, a longtime member of Broadway’s The Lion King and… Read More ›
Mt. Lebanon’s Billy Hartung Among Honorable Mentions for the Tony’s 2022 Excellence in Theatre Education Award
By Sharon Eberson If you are a member of the Pittsburgh theater community, you know Billy Hartung as a performer; of course, He’s been to Broadway and back. As in back home, that’s back in Mt. Lebanon, where he is… Read More ›
My Pittsburgh Theater Weekend: From City Theatre to Heinz Hall to Pittsburgh Playhouse
March 18th to 20th, 2022 By Sharon Eberson My theater card is full these days, and that’s such a welcome feeling. I am getting back into the habit of chronicling my weekend’s entertainment. Masked et al., it has felt like… Read More ›
