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 ›
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Review: Pittsburgh CLO’s Transcendent ‘Lady Day’ Delivers a Star Turn as Billie Holiday
By SHARON EBERSON In an alcohol-fueled haze of heartbreak and sardonic humor, when it was a struggle to stand on her own two feet, it was music that sustained Billie Holiday. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, the musical… Read More ›
‘An Old Sweet Song’: Pittsburgh CLO’s Lady Day Gets Into the Billie Holiday Spirit
By SHARON EBERSON For Gabrielle Lee, who has sung on stages all over the world, starring in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill will be a gateway back to her future. The future is tomorrow, May 17, 2024, when… Read More ›
Pittsburgh CLO Announces Summer Kickoff ‘Lady Day’ Cast
Pittsburgh CLO has revealed the cast and creative team of summer season opener Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, with Gabrielle Lee as Billie “Lady Day” Holiday, directed by Tomé Cousin. The leading lady of the show in the… Read More ›
Meet the Dynamic Dancing Duo at the Helm of PMT’s ‘Grease’
Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique Bring Broadway, Ballet and ‘Fame’ to Their Work in Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON Catching up with Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique about their remarkable careers is bound to answer the question, “How many times can… Read More ›
Review: Productions of Works by Two of America’s Best Black Playwrights are Bringing Light and Warmth to a Dismal Pittsburgh Winter
Dominique Morisseau‘s prize-winning Skeleton Crew and Intimate Apparel, an early work by Lynn Nottage, opened this past week at barebones productions and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, respectively. By BOB HOOVER It’s tough to find a better location for Skeleton Crew than across the street from the Edgar… Read More ›
Busy Tomé Cousin Is Part of a Team Representing CMU at the 2023 Tony Awards, and That’s the Short of It …
Plus: How to watch this year’s unscripted ceremony honoring the best of Broadway By SHARON EBERSON Keeping up with Tomé Cousin’s schedule is a feat of endurance. We have been trying to catch up for weeks, and finally meet via… Read More ›
City Theatre honors Tomé Cousin, Tacy Byham With Annual Robert Frankel Awards
By Sharon Ebderson Tacy Byham and Tomé Cousin were recipients of City Theatre’s annual Robert M. Frankel Awards today, May 20. The awards, bestowed since 1994, are named for the longtime City board leader and were established “to recognize artists… 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 ›
“Dance Nation”
Patrick Jordan’s barebones productions hasn’t shied away from visceral drama, but it has its hands full with Dance Nation, Clare Barron’s smart, funny and insightful play about the many sides of adolescence. That stage of life when childhood slips away… Read More ›