Pittsburgh artists, locally inspired art to be part of NFL Draft

triblive.com: Pittsburgh will be woven into every aspect of the upcoming NFL Draft, which will be held Downtown and on the North Shore from April 23-25. On Tuesday, the NFL announced locally inspired art that will add another dimension to the ‘Burgh representation throughout the event.

Tour Acrisure Stadium ahead of the Pittsburgh NFL Draft!

Steelers - Made In PGH: The 2026 NFL Draft is set to be one of the biggest events in the history of the Steel City—expecting between 500,000 to 700,000 fans—so Pittsburgh is on the clock! Whether you’re planning to watch from the comfort of your couch or to be in the front row on the North Shore, Acrisure Stadium’s On-The-Clock Tours will get you in the Steelers spirit before draft week.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Will Perform Pittsburgh Premiere of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

www.broadwayworld.com: Ben Stevenson OBE's ballet retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, will make its Pittsburgh premiere, presented with live music from the PBT Orchestra. PBT will perform the whimsical, family-friendly ballet May 15-17 at the Benedum Center as the closing production of its 2025-26 Dream Season.

Review -The Second City’s 'Laugh Harder, Not Smarter' at City Theatre

onstagepittsburgh.com: Last night, I found myself laughing—a lot. Sitting in the audience at City Theatre, watching The Second City’s Laugh Harder, Not Smarter, I was carried along by the show’s fast pace, the performers’ agility, and the audience’s contagious energy—although the man sitting right next to me did not laugh once—gently reminding me that everything in art, as in life, is deeply subjective.

Feed Your Soul at War Streets Art Salon

Pittsburgh Magazine: The menu at Clarise Fearn’s Central North Side business includes charcoal, air-dry clay, floral candlesticks and watercolors. Come hungry — for a creative experience.

CMU Partners With Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra To Foster World-Class Musical Experience

News - Carnegie Mellon University: A new four-year partnership between Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will give CMU students direct, on-campus access to world-class musicians and conductors.

Public Theater’s season finale dramatizes growing pains

wesa.fm: “Primary Trust,” for which playwright Eboni Booth won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for drama, tells a story with no real antagonist. Rather, it’s about a perilously lonely man forced to confront his childhood trauma in a wider world that’s indifferent at best, but where everyone he meets is grumpy at worst, and often a good deal better.

The Beauty of Exploring Pittsburgh Theatre, Opera, Ballet, and Symphony

Table Magazine: Being present for a live performance is a form of rebellion against the domination of pixels and algorithms. It frees you to turn to the humanity of actors, musicians, dancers, comedians, singers, and other talented performers.

Pittsburgh Playwright Theatre Premiere Unites Local Artists in 'Paradox of Education'

onstagepittsburgh.com: Few works on Pittsburgh stages have deeper roots within the city limits than Ty Greenwood’s Paradox of Education, directed by Maurice Redwood, and having its premiere this month at Pittsburgh Playwright Theatre Company.

Review: Powerful Drama 'Paradox of Education' Teaches Hard Lessons of Racism on Campus

onstagepittsburgh.com: Being made to feel “other” is no way to go through life, no less, to make it through four years of college. In Ty Greenwood’s powerful new drama, Paradox of Education, a group of Black students discover that scholarships to a PWI — predominantly white institutions — come with student debt, living up to academic expectations and piles of obligations, along with shouldering racially-charged, passive-aggressive encounters and outright hostility.

Pittsburgh theater tries mergers, camps to weather change

www.publicsource.org: Pittsburgh actor Tim Hartman has watched those changes closely during more than four decades performing with companies including Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre Company and Pittsburgh CLO. Since his professional debut at the 1983 Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival he said, the theater community has had to adapt to shifting audiences, rising production costs and a more uncertain economic landscape.

Water for Elephants: A Feast for the Senses

onstagepittsburgh.com: Water for Elephants is a no-doubt true showstopper, and I find it hard to select a single aspect to praise because there are so many stunners throughout the performance. First premiered in the Alliance Theatre (Atlanta) in 2023, then as a Broadway musical in 2024, it has been on its national tour since 2025 and is now performing in Pittsburgh as part of the Cultural Trust’s PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series.

Billy Porter: Dignity, Defiance, and the Art of Being Seen

evanjsegal.substack.com: Billy Porter stands in a powerful lineage of Pittsburgh storytellers who learned to use the stage as both sanctuary and bullhorn. Taylor Allderdice High School, with its unassuming hallways and scrappy theater tradition, helped shape a young Billy who was already testing the limits of what performance could hold—joy, pain, and a fierce insistence on being fully seen.

GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN To Have World Premiere At Pittsburgh Playhouse

www.broadwayworld.com: The world premiere production of Girls Just Want To Have Fun, a new musical inspired by the cult-classic film written by Amy Spies and featuring a score of 1980s chart-toppers, will play Pittsburgh Playhouse’s PNC Theatre from November 11-22, 2026.

Guest Review: ‘10 Out of 12': Immersive Theater Done Right

onstagepittsburgh.com: Theater is an art form that continues to expand humanity’s understanding of reality through many different formats. We’ve seen the changes that theater has gone through and continues to do so, adapting to encapsulate the reality of modern times and tell stories that grab attention and bring us, the audience, into the world. Quantum Theatre’s production of 10 Out of 12 does exactly this.

Review: Quantum Theatre's '10 Out of 12' Experience Is an Unconventional Love Letter to Theatermakers

onstagepittsburgh.com: Tech rehearsal in theater is the crew’s time to sync to a show’s rhythms and iron out the wrinkles that develop with hundreds of light and sound cues, entrances and exits, performers hitting their marks, wardrobe and set changes ,,, it’s where it all comes together. Or it doesn’t. No matter. The show must go on.

Pittsburgh Opera Announces 2026/2027 Season: General Director Christopher Hahn Previews the Program Before Retirement

onstagepittsburgh.com: On April 2, Pittsburgh Opera announced its 2026/2027 season. The upcoming season comprises five carefully curated productions in order: Rigoletto, Orpheus & Eurydice, Partenope, Working for the Macbeths (World Premiere), and Romeo & Juliet. As announced by Pittsburgh Opera in March 2025, Christopher Hahn, who has led the company as General Director since 2008 and served as Artistic Director since 2000, is set to retire in May 2026.

Richard Parsakian of Eons Designs Pittsburgh Opera's Fashion Show

Table Magazine: For the Pittsburgh Opera’s annual fashion fundraiser on March 23, vintage clothing dealer and perennial scene-maker Richard Parsakian of Eons goes gloriously over the top—serving couture-caliber looks, a cast of provocateurs, and drama worthy of the stage.

'Water for Elephants' Is Theatrical by Leaps and Bounds and Puppets

onstagepittsburgh.com: The live show takes its inspiration from the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, in which an elderly man reflects on finding love, passion and a new home when, as a young man who has lost everything in 1931, he hops a train with the crew of a traveling circus. Seen through the eyes of his older self, Jacob’s adventure becomes “a poignant reminder that if you choose the ride, life can begin again at any age.”

Pondering the Pittsburgh Public-CLO merger

wesa.fm: In February 1946, Pittsburgh’s Civic Light Opera Association announced its very first season, which began with an outdoor show at old Pitt Stadium. The group — created with help from department store heir Edgar J. Kaufmann, and staging fare like “Brigadoon” and “On The Town” — proved popular enough that the Civic Arena was originally built to house its shows. The CLO moved Downtown to the Benedum Center in 1988, and has been there since.