By SHARON EBERSON It’s been a bumpy road to get to the best-of list, with a forecast of potholes and promise for the foreseeable future. So fasten your seatbelts, and let’s go. If achievement were assessed solely in artistry, then… Read More ›
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Review: ‘The Wickhams’ Wreak Holiday Havoc at Pemberley
By SHARON EBERSON The Bennet sisters and their beaus have some unfinished business to attend to, two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice. So ingloriously did Jane Austen make that cad George Wickham the husband of the impetuous… Read More ›
Alumni Theater Company and City Theatre Today Jointly Announced Monteze Feeeland, City’s Co-Artistic Director, will Become Alumni’s New Artistic Director
Freeland Embraces the Opportunity to Advance the Future of Black Arts in Pittsburgh. He will assume this new leadership role and kick off ATC’s season in June 2025. ATC’s Board Chair Tracy Edmunds states, “We “are thrilled to announce Monteze as… Read More ›
An Audience Staycation Week: Pittsburgh Playhouse, Lindsay Theater, City Theatre and Carnegie Stage
Plus: GPAC Funds the Arts and PICT 2025 COMMENTARY You go away for a week, you could come back humming, What’d I Miss? Or, when it comes to Pittsburgh theater, you can check out What’s On Stage and say, “What’s… Read More ›
City Theatre Hosts the Second 50th Anniversary Reading Series on November 18th
City Theatre has announced the second installment of its anniversary reading series, City Rewinds: 50 Years of New Plays, with Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Emily Mann. Based on the book Having Our Sayby Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany with… Read More ›
City Theatre Returns to ‘Pemberley’ Series for Christmas
City Theatre is getting decked out for the holidays with the second installment of the Jane Austen-inspired Pemberley trilogy, produced in association with the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, by Lauren Gunderson and Margot… Read More ›
City Theatre Conjures New Halloween Experience: ‘Ghosted’
City Theatre ventures into spooky season this week, with the original Halloween storytelling event Ghosted: Tales from Carson Street, an immersive experience throughout the company’s South Side campus. Co-artistic directors Clare Drobot and Monteze Freeland have created tales to go… Read More ›
onStage Halloween Highlights in October 2024
For more performing arts scares and treats this spooky season, visit onStage Pittsburgh’s What’s On Stage, and check out VisitPittsburgh’s guide to Halloween events in Pittsburgh (it’s not just for visitors). And stay tuned for a spooky start to November,… Read More ›
REVIEW: ‘POTUS Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive’
By Bob Hoover Don’t you love farce? Of course you do, and City Theatre is giving you one of the most raunchy, pratfall-filled comedies ever staged in Pittsburgh. With its awkward subtitle, POTUS opens City Theatre’s 50th season, starting with a word I can’t repeat and throws in a dozen… Read More ›
City Theatre at 50: Looking Back With Pride, Planning for the Future, and Opening With ‘POTUS’
By SHARON EBERSON City Theatre has answered the question, “Where to begin?,” as it launches its 50th season this weekend, with the official opening of POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. That… Read More ›