Theater & Arts category, Page 20
5 things to do in Westmoreland County: Sept. 17-19Video
Welcome, fall The annual Scottdale Fall Festival kicks off at 4 p.m. Friday, promising three days of handmade crafts, local and ethnic foods, a parade, a full schedule of live entertainment, a children’s area and more fun. Parade lineup will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Southmoreland elementary and...
5 Broadway veterans coming ‘Back to Broadway’ for Greensburg show
Broadway is coming back, not just to New York City, but also to Greensburg. To celebrate the reopening of the Great White Way after an 18-month pandemic hiatus, Westmoreland Cultural Trust will present “Back to Broadway: An Evening of Timeless Songs From Classic Broadway Shows,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in...
Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks all-female ‘Hamlet’ takes to city parks
Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks is planning its second all-female production, with upcoming performances of “The Tragedy of Hamlet.” “Hamlet” will open Saturday in Frick Park and run weekends through Sept. 26 in four outdoor venues around the Pittsburgh area. As with the troupe’s 2019 production of “Julius Caesar,” choosing...
Pittsburgh Symphony to perform on 50th anniversary of the opening of Heinz Hall
Heinz Hall opened on Sept. 10, 1971. So, it’s fitting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, which makes its home at Heinz Hall, will perform on that date five decades later as part of “Lights On! A Three-Day Celebration of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District,” Sept. 9-11. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is collaborating with...
Steel City Shakespeare Center hosting free outdoor performances of ‘Pericles’
It wasn’t long after the Steel City Shakespeare Center found a new home at the West View Hub that the coronavirus dropped the curtain on the theatrical troupe’s plans for live performances. But now that pandemic restrictions have been lifted, the show must go on. The group’s first live, in-person...
Beanie Feldstein to lead revival of ‘Funny Girl’ on Broadway
NEW YORK — A Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” is aiming to open next year with Beanie Feldstein in the starring role originated by Barbra Streisand. Producers announced Wednesday that Feldstein, the “Booksmart” and “Lady Bird” actor, will star as Ziegfeld Follies comedian Fanny Brice in spring 2022 at a...
Apple Hill, Theatre Factory share Trafford stage for ‘Mamma Mia!’ joint production
No one is trying to upstage anyone else as Apple Hill Players and The Theatre Factory prepare for their first joint production. “It sounds very Brady Bunch-ish, but we all get along really well. There are no divas here,” said Tina Lepidi-Stewart, artistic director for both Apple Hill and “Mamma...
#PHiLLTERspace looks to save Penn Hills Cinemas by transforming it into a live entertainment hub
A local talent and Penn Hills resident hopes to save and transform the space at Penn Hills Cinemas into a live entertainment hub. The project dubbed “#PHiLLTERspace” will use the theater as a community live arts experience center while it is not showing movies by combining grassroots and independent live...
Free ‘Lights On!’ events to celebrate Pittsburgh’s Cultural District
Pittsburgh’s Cultural District will celebrate the return of live programming with a three-day “Lights On!” event from Sept. 9-11. The special celebration of the arts will be the official kick-off to RADical Days, an annual thank-you to the public with free admission, tours, performances and family activities offered by organizations...
Murrysville native returns from Broadway for Civic Light Opera’s 75th anniversary performance
Singing and performing have been part of Manu Narayan’s life since he was 5 years old, taking singing lessons from Greensburg instructor Nancy Burke. That led the Murrysville native to be part of local children’s performing groups, roles at Apple Hill Playhouse and Greensburg Civic Theater, and then auditions at...
Broadway to require vaccinations, masks for audience members
NEW YORK — Covid-19 vaccinations and masks will be required for all Broadway audience members when theaters reopen in the coming weeks, theater operators announced Friday. Audience members will have to wear face coverings and show proof they are fully vaccinated when they enter the theaters, the Broadway League said...
Pittsburgh’s City Theatre to produce winning works by 4 young playwrights
Winners have been chosen from more than 250 submissions for City Theatre Company’s 2021 Young Playwrights Contest. The regional playwrighting contest for students in grades 7-12 is now in its 22nd year. The winners will have their plays professionally produced by City Theatre and published in the Young Playwrights Anthology....
Quantum Theatre season opens with Greek tragedy at Schenley Park ice rink
Quantum Theatre will kick off its 30th anniversary season with the contemporary treatment of an ancient Greek classic. Outdoor performances of Jay Ball’s “An Odyssey,” based on Homer’s epic poem, “Odyssey,” are planned for Aug. 13-Sept. 5 at the Schenley Park Ice Skating Rink in Oakland. Directed by Jed Allen...
Pittsburgh CLO’s star-studded 75th-anniversary show set for Heinz Field
The stars won’t just be in the sky when “Pittsburgh CLO’s 75th Anniversary: A Broadway Musical Celebration” comes to Heinz Field Wednesday through Saturday. The star-studded production will feature Pittsburgh CLO alumni and Broadway veterans performing musical highlights and theater classics spanning the history of the organization. “We’re bringing the...
Greensburg’s Stage Right summer campers staging ‘Oz,’ ‘Addams Family’
Participants in Stage Right’s second summer camp session hit the ground running, starting to rehearse for performances on their first day. They’ll show what they learned during two musical productions Friday through Sunday in the Science Hall Theater on the Westmoreland County Community College Youngwood campus. “We had a great...
Prime Stage Theatre going ‘beyond imagination’ for 25th anniversary seasonVideo
During the pandemic, Prime Stage Theatre employed imagination to reach audiences, resulting in viewers tuning in to livestream performances from as far away as Rwanda and South Africa. With live audiences back in the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh’s North Side, the company will lend its ingenuity and originality to...
Pittsburgh’s City Theatre plans live season with 3 world premieres
City Theatre Company will reopen its doors in Pittsburgh’s South Side for a 47th season including six live and in-person productions featuring collaborations with local and national theater companies, community partners and first-time and returning artists. Three of the productions will be world premieres, including one that explores immigration in...
East End Kids group preps for outdoor musical performance in Monroeville
As more and more areas of the large-event economy kick back into motion, live theater performances, whether plays, musicals or dance, are having a harder time than others. For Larry Cervi, former owner of the Larry Cervi School of Performing Arts in Monroeville, it presented a unique opportunity for his...
Pittsburgh CLO’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ will be under the stars at Heinz Field
In case you’re wondering how Pittsburgh CLO can stage a musical in the vast expanse of Heinz Field, don’t worry — the audience won’t be straining to see the performers from the upper decks. When the company presents “The Wizard of Oz” July 8-10 on the Steelers’ home turf, “We’ll...
Stage Right’s ‘Hair’ celebrates 1960s hippie vibe
For the Stage Right Theatre Company, the rock musical “Hair” isn’t just an anachronistic snapshot of the peace and love era of the 1960s. Cast members in their 20s and 30s are finding parallels between the “Age of Aquarius” and the present day, said Director Tony Marino. The troupe will...
Freeport Theatre Festival’s ‘The Rainmaker’ features sisters serving as director, actress
Freeport Theatre Festival’s production of “The Rainmaker” is a family project for the Bronder sisters. Kristy and Jen Bronder grew up watching local theater together with their parents. Now, for the first time, they’ll be working together in a local theater production at Freeport Theatre Festival this summer. Jen Bronder...
Irwin’s Lamp Theatre reopens Friday for shows, moviesVideo
The stage lights inside the Lamp Theatre will be lit again Friday for the first time in more than a year because of the covid pandemic. “There’s been a mountain of work to do,” said Bill Elder, general manager of the theater in downtown Irwin. Breakers, a Tom Petty tribute...
Stage Right’s campers will be singing, dancing and playing harmonicas this summer
You’re never too young to start making music with Stage Right School for the Performing Arts in Greensburg. Among five summer camp offerings is a harmonica camp for families with children ages 6 months to 4 years. The camp is part of Stage Right’s Music Together Program, an immersive music...
Greater Latrobe’s virtual pandemic-themed play honored with a Telly Award
Greater Latrobe Drama Club’s innovative approach that allowed the show to go on for last fall’s high school play was recognized with a Telly Award. The club and Headspace Media, the Latrobe firm that filmed the play “”Love… No Barriers” for an online presentation during the covid-19 pandemic, received a...
‘Hamilton’s’ Mandy Gonzalez to perform for Jewish Association on Aging fundraiserVideo
Actress and singer Mandy Gonzalez immediately thought of her late grandmother when asked by the Jewish Association on Aging to perform at its annual fundraiser. “My ‘Bubbie’ loved music, and she would always sing at the senior center,” said Gonzalez, who will perform a live virtual concert for the Art...
