Theater & Arts category, Page 26

Riverfront Theater Company is gearing up for its 2020 season by treating audiences to a special production of Christopher Durang’s comedy, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” for two weekends in November. The comedy, which won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play, is being presented Nov. 7-9 and...

Director Shawn Conway said no moment is left un-mined for comedic value in Actors and Artists of Fayette County’s upcoming production of “Leading Ladies.” Playwright Ken Ludwig, who also wrote two other comedies familiar to theater companies – “Lend Me a Tenor” and “Moon Over Buffalo” – has set “Leading...

Popularity is the rarest of accomplishments for contemporary opera, but Mexican composer Daniel Catán achieved it when he wrote “Florencia en el Amazonas.” It has been performed successfully around the world, and has elicited enthusiastic praise from performers, audiences and even critics since its premiere in 1996 at Houston Grand...

“The Scarlet Letter” opens the Prime Stage Theatre’s 23rd consecutive season. The new, commissioned stage adaptation features Nathaniel Hawthorne, the book’s author, as an onstage character. Performances will be held at the New Hazlett Theater Center for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh. Liam Macik, a Mt. Lebanon High School graduate,...

Experiencing a work of the performing arts — a play, a ballet or a symphony — is often described as a journey. That’s because, as it unfolds over time, the route to a destination may be at least as important as the destination. Take a piece of a piece of...

PICT Classic Theatre general operations manager Catherine Kolos says the upcoming stage production of “The Woman in Black” is “unlike anything we have ever done.” “It’s going to be a really intriguing show,” she says. And be warned. “Our goal is to scare the pants off of people,” she says....

Good things are worth the wait, especially if the “good thing” is the opportunity to bring one of the longest-running stage shows in Broadway history to Seton Hill University. It took three tries for Denise Pullen, associate professor of theater at Seton Hill, to secure the rights to produce the...

To open its 50th anniversary season, which is also the final one for its artistic director, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will present a restaging of “Giselle,” one of the most popular masterpieces in the repertoire. “Giselle” is a story about love which extends beyond death. Its second act is filled with...

A convent is a good place to hide from a gangster ex-boyfriend. How singer Deloris Van Cartier ends up there and what happens next will be revealed in Norwin High School Theatre Company’s fall production, “Sister Act the Musical.” Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 24-26 and 2 p.m....

Greensburg Civic Theatre will open its 68th season with a killer of a musical when it presents “Jekyll and Hyde” Oct. 17-19 at Greensburg Garden and Civic Center. “I seem to be completing a trilogy of horror shows for GCT,” says director Vince D’Angelo of Oakmont, who also directed “Dracula”...

Like a true Pittsburgher, James Critchfield’s only complaint these days is with his commute to work. Aside from his lengthy drive to and from rehearsals — from his home in the South Hills to The Theatre Factory in Trafford — he couldn’t be happier about his current assignment directing “The...

Versatile entertainer and civil rights pioneer Josephine Baker is the topic of the Oct. 25 History Dinner Theater at Saint Vincent College. Presented by the college’s Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery, the program will begin at 6 p.m. in the Fred M. Rogers Center on the Unity campus. “Overcoming...

John Cunnard calls the cult classic musical “The Rocky Horror Show” “the ultimate theater experience” in which theatergoers don’t just watch the iconic stage show; they are part of it. “Many audiences come in their favorite ‘Rocky’ costumes, they get to dance with the characters in the seats and also...

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has been awarded a grant to bring the Disney Musicals in Schools program to Allegheny County. The program, developed by Disney Theatrical Group to create theater programs in elementary schools with limited resources to do so, will be spearheaded by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s arts education...

Even timeless stories can be extra-relevant sometimes, and now is one of those times for the great opera “Don Giovanni.” It was written in 1787 but its story could have been ripped from today’s headlines. It is about a sexual predator brought to justice by his victims, a plot created...

The epic struggle between good and evil will play out in “Jekyll and Hyde,” Greensburg Civic Theatre’s 68th-season opening production. The sweeping Gothic musical based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story, featuring a score of pop rock hits, will be staged at 8 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and 2 p.m. Oct....

Greensburg’s Stage Right! theater company set a new Guinness World Record for fastest theatrical production. The company, which also operates a school for the performing arts, received an email Friday confirming that it successfully set a new world record by staging a production of “Children of Eden” — from auditions...