Prime Stage Theatre tells the story of those children and one of their extraordinary teachers in Celeste Raspanti’s I Never Saw Another Butterfly & The Terezin Promise, running for seven shows February 28 – March 9, 2025, at New Hazlett Theater…. Read More ›
The year is 1960. A shy, smart 6-year-old named Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American student to attend a formerly whites-only grade school in New Orleans. Escorted to class by U.S. Marshals through a hostile segregationist mob, the youngster… Read More ›
One of Pittsburgh’s Finest Actors will portray one of Pittsburgh’s Greatest Playwrights when Prime Stage Theatre Presents Wali Jamal performing August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned First performed by Wilson himself, two years before his death at age 60, How I Learned What I… Read More ›
Image control and message focus are vital to winning U.S. Presidential elections. A new play by L.E. McCullough suggests that the men who occupied the White House got there because of their mom. The stories of 15 remarkable women are told in First… Read More ›
The new stage version restores Dickens’ original unpublished ending. According to Shakespeare’s melancholy prince Hamlet, “The play is the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.” For Prime Stage Theatre artistic director Dr. Wayne Brinda, the play is the thing… Read More ›
If you’ve ever wanted to have an intimate conversation about Oreos or Fig Newtons with the fellow who invented them, stop by Homewood Cemetery on the afternoon of September 28th and meet Sylvester Stephen Marvin. While Marvin died in 1924… Read More ›
Prime Stage Theatre announced the National Endowment for the Arts has approved it for a Grants for Arts Project award of $15,000 to support the world premiere play adapted from the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Published in 1999, Speak tells the story of high school… Read More ›
Prime Stage Theatre’s upcoming presentation of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American whose simple act of personal bravery changed the history of a nation. On the morning of December 1st, 1955, 42-year-old Rosa… Read More ›
