Prime Stage Theatre’s season of premieres continues this weekend with a commissioned work by playwright Tammy Ryan, who has adapted the National Book Award finalist “Speak” for the stage. The YA novel about consent, trauma, and healing has frequently been near the top of the ALA’s banned books list since its 1999 publication. “Some people are afraid to let teenagers, as Laurie would say, be exposed to the realities of the world,” Ryan said, quoting “Speak” novelist Laurie Halse Anderson.
By SHARON EBERSON The pioneering Freedom House Ambulance Service has garnered much-deserved attention of late, thanks to The Pitt, the HBO show that shines a spotlight on all things Pittsburgh, following the WQED documentary Freedom House Ambulance: The FIRST Responders… Read More ›
With news about Prime Stage Theatre, MCG Jazz, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh CLO NEW PLAY CELEBRATES HILL DISTRICT FOUNDING OF FREEDOM HOUSE AMBULANCE SERVICE Prime Stage Theatre will present the premiere of Freedom House: Giving Life a Second Chance, a… Read More ›
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 ›
Prime Stage Theatre’s 5th annual High School Drama Awards, honoring excellence in nonmusical plays by student theater-makers, proved to be a big night for Pine-Richland High School. At the gala event Saturday at the Hillman Center for the Performing Arts… 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 ›
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 ›
Local companies are producing world premieres of one-act plays during week three of the five-week-long Festival. Sex after surgery, mother-daughter relations, and lost luggage are among the themes of three world premieres, as the Pittsburgh New Works Festival partners with local theater companies to present… Read More ›
Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards ceremony is 7 p.m. Monday at the New Hazlett Theatre on the North Side. The program spotlights one-act or full-length nonmusical productions that take place in the fall. In 2024, 12… Read More ›
