With news about the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, ‘Wicked,’ Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company and more. PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST NAMES INAUGURAL CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER: JSAON WITZBERGER Pittsburgh Cultural Trust President and CEO Kendra Whitlock Ingram announced that Jason… Read More ›
Fab 4 Set for barebone’s ‘God of Carnage’ Barebones productions has announced the cast of its next show, Yasmin Reza’s God of Carnage, with artistic director Patrick Jordan joined in the 2009 Tony Award-winning best play by Daina Michelle Griffith, David Whalen, and Gayle Pazerski. Whalen also… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON The cuts have been expected, but now that the axe has come down, arts and culture organizations nationwide are feeling the pain and contemplating next steps. The Trump Administration has started canceling National Endowment for the Arts… Read More ›
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 ›
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council has awarded 36 Southwestern Pennsylvania organization a total of $180,000 to support arts and culture work and programming as part of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Sector Flex Fund grant program. The grant… Read More ›
Nearly one-quarter of artists who filled out the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s 2024 Artist Community Survey said they are earning less than $15,000 annually, indicating a poverty rate more than double that of the average population. That’s just one of… Read More ›
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 ›
The distribution of arts and culture funding in the Greater Pittsburgh region is racially inequitable, according to a newly released research report from The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. In a press release on Monday, July 29, GPAC shared the results… Read More ›
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Shares Report Revealing Social Benefits and $1.26 Billion in Direct Impact The contributions of a thriving arts scene to the economy and vitality of Allegheny County are undeniable and measurable, to a degree, with the help… Read More ›
Forty-four Southwestern Pennsylvania creative entrepreneurs were awarded a total of $88,000 from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council to support their business’ general operations as part of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ (PCA) Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator program. Grants are used… Read More ›
