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Clayton Gregg, a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, sees one advantage to the pandemic-driven practice of presenting Zoom versions of theater productions. “It might be good for someone with stage fright,” he said, to act from the comfort of home. Gregg will play the part of Peter...

LOS ANGELES — Arnold Schwarzenegger says he is feeling “fantastic” after his recent heart surgery. The 73-year-old “Terminator” actor and former California governor said on social media Friday that he had a new aortic valve implanted in his heart. He posted a photo of himself with a thumbs up from...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There’s a hole in Anderson, South Carolina. It opened suddenly in August when Chadwick Boseman, one of the city’s favorite sons and an international star for his role as the Black Panther, died after a quiet battle with cancer at just 43 years old. Two months later,...

What would you like to do for fun this week? Paint a bird portrait? Listen to some roots music? Have a few belly laughs? Get the kids to bed — for once — with a minimum of fuss? You can do all those things, and more. The details are here,...

A change is in the air for News Radio 1020 KDKA. Starting Nov. 2, as part of the commemoration of the station’s centennial anniversary, KDKA-AM will simulcast on FM for the first time ever and be heard on 100.1 FM. The spot had previously been occupied by WAMO, a station...

Get ready to do the time warp again. Stage Right Theatre Company will stage “The Rocky Horror Show Live” under a big top tent on Oct. 23-24 and 30-31. There will be a few pandemic-driven changes to the company’s long-running Halloween season production, including the outdoor venue, said director and...

While audiences are unable to come to The Palace Theatre, Westmoreland Cultural Trust will bring programming to audiences with a new livestreaming service. “Livestreaming will allow us to bring back much-needed entertainment and cultural experiences that have been missing since the pandemic began,” said April Kopas, CEO of Westmoreland Cultural...

Doing live theater demands that everyone involved adapt quickly to changing conditions. Greensburg Civic Theatre is proving its adaptability as it prepares to stage “Almost, Maine,” a John Cariani play opening the troupe’s 69th season on Thursday. Each member of the cast of five will play numerous roles. “One thing...

You Are Here art center and gallery in Jeannette is out to prove that one person’s junk is another one’s treasure, with the Upcycle Challenge ‘20, an art competition using recycled and reused materials. For a $10 entry fee, participants receive a package of miscellaneous arts and crafts materials from...

Pittsburgh Opera will welcome small, live audiences back to productions of its modified 2020-21 season, in addition to livestreaming all performances. First up is Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” opening Oct. 17 for six performances in front of socially distant audiences at its headquarters in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. Stage director Crystal...

Area craft breweries and distilleries will join a mix of food offerings and live music Friday and Saturday for the Loyalhanna Watershed Association’s first Oktoberfest. Based at the Watershed Farm, on the western outskirts of Ligonier, the event is taking the place of the organization’s Brewfest, introduced last summer but...

A reboot of the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival will offer online “smart talk about stuff that matters.” Interviews available for free explore health care and policy, incarceration, technology and creating opportunities for artists of color in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Humanities Festival @ Home kicks off Friday with the first of four...

This sounds like a winning combination at Live! Casino Pittsburgh — a restaurant owned by Guy Fieri. An Emmy-award winning chef, restaurateur, New York Times best-selling author and television personality, Fieri is opening American Kitchen + Bar sometime this year, as was first reported by the Tribune-Review. “There is nothing...

Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s new outdoor performance venue will do more than offer patrons a way to see live acts during ongoing covid-19 gathering restrictions. It also will be “an anchor” for community gatherings and development in the up-and-coming West End that the theater calls home, according to executive artistic director...

Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse is getting ready to launch “Here. Now. Next!,” a fall season of virtual offerings, including theater and dance productions, the new Dance Speaker Series and a re-imagined Media Innovators Speaker Series. The season will include several new works. “Some of our work this fall will...

For nearly a decade, Michael Cohen was at odds with Rosie O’Donnell in part because his boss — President Donald Trump — was engaged in a long feud with the comedian and talk-show host. On Monday, Cohen is launching a podcast, titled “Mea Culpa,” with O’Donnell as his first guest....

If people can’t come to the art, You Are Here will take art to the people. The downtown Jeannette gallery is being transformed temporarily into a maker space for collaborative, original works of art to be placed at locations around the community. “It seemed like everyone we talked to was...

A chance meeting between a Ligonier resident and a former Kentucky poet laureate led to a new exhibition at the Main Exhibit Gallery in Ligonier. Helen Sitler of Ligonier, retired from the English department of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, attended a book fair in Lexington, Ky., where she met poet...

The 10th annual Mr. Fred Rogers Juried Art Exhibition opens Wednesday at Latrobe Art Center. Paying tribute to the children’s television icon and Latrobe native, the show will feature 65 pieces by local and regional artists including two- and three-dimensional works, paintings in a variety of mediums and photography. The...

In 1984, Rockwell sang a song called “Somebody’s Watching Me,” a paean to paranoia that included the line, “I always feel like somebody’s watching me.” Maybe it was just a timely shout-out to George Orwell’s dystopian novel — in which somebody always was watching — or maybe Rockwell really was...

Tribune-Review sports columnist Tim Benz is joining the regular lineup of WPXI-TV’s social media-driven Sunday night sports show “The Final Word.” Benz will become a regular panelist on the 11:30 p.m. program on an every-other-week basis. He joins Trib columnist Mark Madden among others. His first show is Sunday. The...