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‘A Strange Loop’ earns a leading 11 Tony Award nominations

NEW YORK — “A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday as Broadway joined the national discussion of race by embracing an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner about a Black gay man writing a...
‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ opens at Prime Stage Theatre

It’s one of the old war horses of Broadway theater and yet a play that never goes out of style. “Arsenic and Old Lace” returns to the stage this weekend as the final show of the 2021-22 season for the Prime Stage Theatre company. The play officially opens at the...
‘The White Rose’ tells story of incredible courage in face of evil

There is a line in the “The White Rose” that not only sums up what the play is about, but applies to the many atrocities human beings have witnessed throughout history. “If you don’t have the courage to speak up, then you are just as bad as the people that...
City Theatre’s Momentum New Play Festival returns as in-person event

Following a two-year absence due to the pandemic, an effective vehicle for new play development is returning to the City Theatre stages on Pittsburgh’s South Side. The Momentum New Play Festival is back for a May 16-21 run featuring public readings of three new plays in progress as well as...
1-woman play embodies Therese Rocco, Pittsburgh’s 1st female assistant police chief

Do it, but do it with grace. That is the way Therese Rocco, a trailblazer with the Pittsburgh Police Department, has always lived her life. For more than four decades, Rocco overcame gender barriers and created a path for women. She was Pittsburgh’s — and the nation’s — first female...
Greensburg Civic Theatre stages sultry ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’

Greensburg Civic Theatre is traveling back to 1955 and the Mississippi Delta, where the weather isn’t the only thing that’s sultry. The company will close its 2021-22 season with Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Curtain times will be 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and...
Westmoreland Night of the Stars high school musical showcase returns

In 2019, John Noble said he was stepping away from Westmoreland Night of the Stars, the annual high school musical showcase he founded in 1997. After that year’s production, the Hempfield attorney and performer announced that he was turning over the reins to his daughter, Elly Noble Carr, who also...
Penn Middle students prepare to stage ‘Beauty & the Beast’Video

Less than a decade ago, Maddie Nick was on the stage at Penn-Trafford High School. At the time, it seemed like a big challenge. “When you’re on the stage, you have a lot to remember, but you don’t appreciate the full scope of what it takes to put on a...
Pittsburgh Opera’s ‘Blue’ explore themes of race, violence and reconciliation

Pittsburgh Opera will explore themes of race, violence and reconciliation in “Blue,” a contemporary opera inspired by current events and Black literature. “Blue” will be presented in five performances Saturday through May 1 in the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, at 980 Liberty Ave. in downtown Pittsburgh. The story...
Seton Hill theater production explores ancestry and the African diaspora

Seton Hill University Theatre will present the Pittsburgh-area premiere of “Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea,” a 2014 play by Nathan Alan Davis that explores what ancestry means to people of color, specifically those whose African ancestors were taken into slavery. Curtain times will be 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and...
Apple Hill Players planning risque, romantic romp on Trafford stage

“Don’t Dress for Dinner” is a complicated play, but the Apple Hill Players don’t want audiences to think too deeply about it. The theater troupe will stage the madcap farce, replete with romantic hi-jinks and mistaken identities, from April 22-30 in the Trafford Performing Arts Center. “I think audiences have...
Mountain Playhouse departs Jennerstown gristmill for upcoming season

The good news for fans of Mountain Playhouse is that the two-year pandemic intermission will end with a new season starting May 25. News that patrons may find disconcerting is that actors won’t tread the historic boards at the company’s longtime home in the converted gristmill theater in Jennerstown, Somerset...
New August Wilson Center exhibition reveals playwright’s work, life

The August Wilson African American Cultural Center finally has a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and work of its Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake. “August Wilson: The Writer’s Landscape” opens to the public at noon Saturday. Covering 3,600 square feet of gallery space in the downtown Pittsburgh facility at 980 Liberty...
Yough students to perform ‘If Sherlock Holmes Were a Woman’

When Emilie Morton was younger, she can recall being obsessed with the cartoon character Dora the Explorer. “Just like her, I wanted to explore,” said Morton, 17, a junior at Yough Senior High School. That made it easy to channel a young person’s excitement and desire to emulate their heroes...
Stage Right stages ‘Joseph,’ a biblical tale of intrigue, at The Palace

The thing that makes “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” so interesting for audiences also makes it challenging for the cast. “The music is everything from country-western to calypso to a pop-rock sound, and other things that go toward the classical musical theater sound,” said Christopher McAllister, executive director of...
Westmoreland Performing Arts stages pre-Easter ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

Anthony Marino Jr. is calmly approaching what is arguably one of the more fraught roles in theater. He’s playing Jesus in the Westmoreland Performing Arts pre-Easter production of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” “It’s almost easy for me to step into it because of my history with the show,” said Marino, 21,...

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