Mike Vargo

' adapted from the August Wilson play

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Comes to the Big Screen

African-American musicians of the Roaring Twenties roar to life in the film made from August Wilson’s play.

Peter Beard

Big Show, Worth a Long Look: ‘Femme Touch’ at The Warhol 

Women, trans women, and queens take center stage in The Warhol’s museum-wide exhibition.

' 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’s ‘Così fan tutte’ Is In-Person + Livestreamed; Boaz Frankel Closes Humanities Fest (Fri., 10/23/20)

Pittsburgh Opera’s ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ Boaz Frankel

' 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.

and a new set of predicaments

Quantum Streams ‘Constellations’ (Thurs., 8/27/20)

‘Constellations’

this necklace is attributed the Guild of Handicraft in London circa 1900. The overall design is ornate but has a palpable unity and the enameled image evokes days of yore. (© Artists Rights Society / ADAGP. Photo: John Faier

Every Jewel Tells a Story: ‘Maker & Muse’ at The Frick Pittsburgh

The Frick’s exhibit shows how women and reform movements changed art jewelry around the turn of the last century.

Space Travels: An-My Lê’s ‘On Contested Terrain’ at The Carnegie

A photo exhibit at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art takes you to strange spaces and places.

from a past PedalPGH event)|As this happy gentleman illustrates

EC Summer Guide: Yes, Summer Is Happening in Pittsburgh

A one-stop guide to what’s on, outdoors and in, for summer fun.

' by Caryl Churchill. (photo courtesy of the artist)

Quantum’s ‘Love and Information’ Breaks New Ground in Online Theater (Thurs., 6/18/20)

‘Love and Information’

Three Rivers Arts Festival 2020 FEATURED|Performance artist Christiane D leads the Complaints n'at Choir at Gateway Center’s “T” Station in downtown Pittsburgh.|Three cheers for three cheetahs: Work by Canadian couple DaNisha (Dan and Nisha Ferguson) has been among big draws at the Artists Market.

Digital History in the Making: Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Moves Online

That’s right; the whole Arts Festival fandango goes digital this year.

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