PSO and Texture Ballet Highlight Dance and Classical Night at Drive-in Arts Festival (Sun., 9/13/20)

There are drive-in movies, so why not drive-in live entertainment? Pittsburghers get to try the concept at the city’s first and perhaps only Drive-In Arts Festival. Staged at Hazelwood Green—the sprawling new multi-use development site in where else but Hazelwood—the festival is produced by City Theatre. And though it doesn’t include live theater, just about every other performing art is on the two-week schedule: comedy, dance, magic, and music in forms from classical to hip-hop. Each night is devoted to a single featured act or set of related acts and the artists are Pittsburgh-rooted. Check the link above for the night(s) you want, buy tix in advance, and arrive with up to four in your vehicle. 

The Drive-in Arts Festival tonight features talented performers:Dancers/troupes are Texture Contemporary Ballet, Pittsburgh CAPA alumnus James Gilmer of the Alvin Ailey company, jazz/postjazz movement artist Pearlann Porter, and movement/music duo slowdanger. Also performing is a classical music ensemble presented by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. 

Institutions collaborating with City Theatre for the Drive-In Arts Festival include the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, City of Asylum, MCG Jazz, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and WYEP-FM. Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Main entry to Hazelwood Green is at 4734 Second Ave., Hazelwood. (MV)

Dancers Erin Patterson and Rachel Harman strike a balance of power in Texture’s ‘Personal & Powerful.’ (photo: Mark Simpson)

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