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The latest curtain-risings in theater and dance

including a rough 7th Grade

Singer Jill Sobule Recounts Life’s Highs and Lows in City Theatre’s Concert Film ‘F*ck7thGrade’

7th Grade can often times be the hardest. The concert film includes personal stories and hit songs.

Love blooms among the drudgery of work in a hat factory for Joan (Lisa Velten Smith) and Todd (Andrew William Smith) in Caryl Churchill's "Far Away" at Quantum Theatre. (photo: Heather Mull Photography).

February Theater Guide: New Ventures in Online Experience

The theater stream is starting to perk up again with some interesting productions.

Jimmy Stewart

December Theater Guide: Full Stream Ahead

Holiday productions have gone on this year and there are many sugar plums.

Writer/performer Shua Potter nails it in 'Claws Out.' (photo: Kristi Jan Hoover)

City Theatre’s ‘Claws Out’ Rips a New Path to Holiday Cheer

‘Claws Out,’ subtitled ‘The Holiday Drag Musical,’ aims to be naughty AND nice.

Vanessa Williams. (photo: Rod Spicer)

Vanessa Williams: Always Giving Her Best

Vanessa Williams performs a virtual concert for the benefit of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

' a fictional Snowden clone must confront his inner demons while wondering who's got his back. Quantum streams the play in the intimate-realism style of early TV

Quantum Breaks New Ground In an Old Way with ‘Wild’

The livestream of a modern psycho-thriller goes for realism like that of early TV dramas.

' which Pittsburgh Opera has reset in a World War I munitions plant—where people really did wear masks to avoid spreading the Spanish Flu. (photo: David Bachman Photography)

Pittsburgh Opera Goes Live and In Person with ‘Così fan tutte’

Though not exactly a masked ball, this masked comic opera is a Pittsburgh first.

but now it returns as part of a spare-but-strong Pittsburgh theater lineup this month. (Photo © Joan Marcus)|Atticus Finch (Ed Harris) looks pensive during the trial portion of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' (photo: Julieta Cervantes)|The outfits are part of the fun in 'The Cher Show.' (photo: Joan Marcus)|A romantic moment from 'Pretty Woman: The Musical.' (photo: Morris Mac Matzen)|The original Temptations were a sight to see

Cultural Trust’s PNC Broadway 2021 Series Is Loaded With Popular Productions

The return of ‘Hamilton’ and recent Tony Award winners like ‘Hadestown’ and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ make for a strong season.

photographed during the U.S. speaking tour that made him an intercontinental celebrity.

Pittsburgh Public Theater Debuts New PlayTime Virtual Performance Series

The Public begins a weekly web series of dramatic theatrical readings.

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‘The Band’s Visit’ Makes For Great Company

The multiple-Tony-winning musical drew a sold-out crowd to Benedum Center on opening night of its Pittsburgh run.

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