(09/24/2015) - Pittsburgh CLO presents the CLO Cabaret premiere of ALTAR BOYZ, tonight, September 24, through December 20. This heavenly cast includes Pittsburgh CLO alumni Mike Greer as Luke and Mason Alexander Park as Mark, as well as exciting newcomers Michael Brown, Carter Ellis and Javier Manente. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the stars in action below!
(09/03/2015) - A brand new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, hits the road for a national tour. This lavish new production launches this September at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, under the auspices of the Center Theatre Group, and will then tour North America for multiple seasons, playing multi-week and week-long engagements. BroadwayWorld brings you shots of the meet and greet below!
(07/24/2015) - Pittsburgh CLO's THE WEDDING SINGER begins tonight, July 24 where it will run through August 2, starring GLEE's Jenna Ushkowitz, Jackie Burns and more. Check out a first look below!
(07/10/2015) - Join one-of-a-kind mother, Rose, and her two talented daughters as they search for fame in Pittsburgh CLO's production of GYPSY, tonight, July 10, through July 19 at the Benedum Center. This entertaining musical is complete with memorable performances, mother-daughter struggles and the hardships of show business life, all while set during the infamous vaudeville era. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(06/23/2015) - Dream the impossible dream with MAN OF LA MANCHA. A celebrated Broadway hit and winner of five Tony Awards®, MAN OF LA MANCHA will leave you breathless with a score including the touching ode to romance, 'Dulcinea,' the heroic, 'I, Don Quixote' and the unforgettable, 'The Impossible Dream.'
(05/27/2015) - Pittsburgh CLO presents the exciting return of original comedy sensation Girls Only - The Secret Comedy of Women, which will run now through August 16 at the CLO Cabaret. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the stars onstage below!
(04/17/2015) - Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company closes its 2014-2015 season with a production of Tennessee Williams' timeless steamy classic, A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Martin Giles, A Streetcar Named Desire runs tonight, April 17, through April 26 in the Rauh Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(03/27/2015) - The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, closes its 2014-2015 season with the world premiere of Pittsburgh playwright Anthony McKay's entertaining family drama, Endless Lawns. Endless Lawns opens tonight, March 27, and runs through April 12, in the Studio Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(02/27/2015) - Welcome to the Roaring Twenties, a period of economic prosperity, and social and cultural change, when jazz flourished and prohibition was legal but no one paid attention.
(02/06/2015) - Pittsburgh CLO presents the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit comedy, BOEING BOEING, now playing through April 26 at the CLO Cabaret. Check out a first look below!
(02/05/2015) - As we all know, when you think of comedy, you immediately think of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He is, after all, credited with famously saying, 'There's a fine line between gazing long into an abyss and standing at the edge of an abyss looking like an idiot.' The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, rings in 2015 with the world premiere of Prussia: 1866, Pittsburgh playwright Gab Cody's hilarious examination of Nietzsche and his proto-feminist friends. Directed by Kim Martin, Prussia: 1866 previews tonight, Feb. 5, and runs Feb. 6-22, in the Rauh Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave. Scroll down for a first look at the cast in action!
(12/01/2014) - I woke up early and went to Starbucks. I did not, however, check the weather forecast before I did. It was seventeen degrees with a wind chill of zero. After the "balmy" weather that preceded it, downtown felt positively Arctic and the whole Polar Vortex thing from last year came flooding back. On my way home, my legs stopped working. Pittsburgh has the highest curbs in the country (maybe the world) and I found myself stepping off them like a toddler so as not to tumble like and octogenarian. We had a brief brush-up rehearsal and got ready for the first show of opening week.
(11/19/2014) - Tuesday, November 11
My lifelong friend, Jane Parham arrived in town for the invited dress rehearsaltomorrow and I had lunch with her at Sonoma Grill. Have I mentioned that Sonoma Grill is awesome? So is Jane. We had a marvelous time and then I took her to the theater to see the set. While we were standing there, Zach Moore ran a sound cue, Bizet's Symphony in C… loudly. Both Jane and I burst into tears. Got to introduce her to Ted Pappas who greeted her like an old friend. Good times.
(11/11/2014) - Tuesday, November 4
Started the day REALLY early with packing. They're moving me to housing right next to the theater. The Pennsylvanian is a lovely place but it's a HIKE and the weather is about to turn cold, so I'm really glad to be getting closer to work. After the move we did some trouble areas of the play and tightened the up considerably. Then I did an interview with Bill O'Driscoll from the City Paper. Forgot to mention, I did interviews with Sharon of the Post-Gazette and Alice Carter from the Tribune last week. Both were very enjoyable. We did a run through in the afternoon and it was the first time the first act had come together. The show is an ensemble piece so almost the entire cast is onstage all the time. This means everyone has to be on their toes ALL THE TIME or cues will be missed. This was the first time everyone kept the ball in the air for the entire first act. The second act wasn't as fortunate… one step at a time.
(11/04/2014) - Tuesday, October 28
We started the new week with the top of act two. We sat around and read it. We've started doing this in comfy chairs in a circle rather than around a table and it's very intimate. Then we started at the top. Everyone's on stage from the beginning and it's so marvelous to see how at this point, everyone is really inside the characters so it goes really quickly in a kind of short hand. We got all the way up to the "eleven o'clock number" moment of the second act and quit there.
(10/28/2014) - Monday, October 20
Day off. I had been hearing about "The Strip" ever since I arrived so Deanne Lorette aka Sarah Bernhardt and I trundled off to have lunch there. The surprise is that it's not some Vegas area as you might imagine from the name. It's a very down home neighborhood with a lot of local produce and outside markets. One set of stalls looked like something you might have found in Omaha in the 1950's. Surprising.
(10/21/2014) - In my cranky old age, I have become virtually phobic about all means of public transportation, an odd affectation for someone who has spent his entire life zooming from one theater to another across several countries. My dear friend, Nick Noone knows this about me, so when he learned that I was about to start rehearsing my new play, L'HOTEL at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, he offered to drive me both to and from. He did this in spite of the fact that he lives nowhere near Pittsburgh or New York City. This has prompted me to refer to him as Mother Teresa del Auto Spirito.
(10/17/2014) - Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company presents the world premiere of a new musical -- '21' -- about the life of the legendary Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente. The show begins tonight, Oct. 17 and runs through April 26, 2015, at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in the city's Oakland neighborhood. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(10/01/2014) - The REP presents SOUVENIR, by Stephen Temperley and directed by Tome Cousin, through Oct. 12 at Studio Theatre. Check out a first look below!
(09/12/2014) - The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, opens its 2014-2015 season with Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck's timeless and heartwrenching tale of two migrant workers in the Great Depression. Directed by Robert A. Miller, Of Mice and Men runs now through September 21, in the Rauh Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(07/29/2014) - Join the quest for the Holy Grail tonight, July 29, through August 3 with Monty Python's SPAMALOT at Pittsburgh CLO. Based on the classic film comedy 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,' Spamalot is the award-winning Broadway musical that took the Tony Awards by storm in 2005. SPAMALOT features music by John Du Prez and book & lyrics by Eric Idle. Scroll down for a first look at the cast in action!
(07/18/2014) - Take a look at Pittsburgh CLO's production of CATS, opening tonight (July 18th)! A talented company of felines will bring Andrew Lloyd Webber's mysterious masterpiece to life on the Benedum Center stage. Scroll down to see production photos!
(06/24/2014) - Get ready to "cut loose" with this Pittsburgh CLO premiere! When teenager Ren McCormack moves from the big city to middle-of-nowhere Bomont, where even dancing is against the law, he's in for a real case of culture shock. After falling for the preacher's daughter, Ren really shakes things up. When he and fellow rebellious teenagers defy authority and dare to dance, the result is a fast-paced rock 'n roll musical featuring the Billboard-topping hits "Footloose," "Let's Hear It for the Boy," "Almost Paradise" and "Holding Out for a Hero."
(06/13/2014) - Do blondes really have more fun? Audiences will soon find out at Pittsburgh CLO's production of Legally Blonde The Musical, opening tonight, June 13, and continuing through June 22 at the Benedum Center. This mega movie hit will be brought to life by a cast of Broadway's best and Pittsburgh CLO veterans. Check out a first look below!
(06/02/2014) - Grab the umbrellas! Audiences will be delighted by Pittsburgh CLO's production of Singin' in the Rain, now playing through June 8 at the Benedum Center. A talented cast of Broadway's best and Pittsburgh CLO veterans will take this feel-good movie-musical off the silver screen and on to the Benedum Center stage.
(05/25/2014) - Pittsburgh CLO presents the rousing musical hit Ring of Fire, which will run May 22 through August 17 at the CLO Cabaret. Tickets start at $34.75 and are available at CLOCabaret.com, by calling 412-456-6666 or visiting the Box Office at Theater Square.
(05/23/2014) - Point Park University's Playhouse Jr. closes its 65th season with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the hilarious Tony Award-winning musical. Directed by Zeva Barzell, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opens tonight, May 23, and runs through Sunday, June 8, in the Rauh Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave. Scroll down for a first look at the cast in action!
(04/11/2014) - Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company closes its 2013-2014 season with a production of John Millington Synge's classic Irish comedy, The Playboy of the Western World, now through April 19 in the Rauh Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse
(04/04/2014) - On Thursday, March 27, PICT Theatre and the Arts and Law Committee of the Allegheny County Bar hosted more than 150 guests at the Duquesne Club for the inaugural PICT UnCommon Pleas, a legal theatrical event featuring attorney Dennis Unkovic of Meyer, Unkovic and Scott LLP, and Pittsburgh Tech Council president Audrey Russo as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Federal and state judges Maurice B. Cohill Jr., Nora Barry Fischer, Jeffrey A. Manning, Judith Ference Olson, Christine A. Ward, and Dwayne R. Woodruff presided as advocates pleaded their cases for or against the Macbeths. Scroll down to see some photos from the event!
(02/21/2014) - Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company presents Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a raucous and unique rock musical that reinvents America's seventh president as a contemporary rock star. Directed by Michael McKelvey, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson opens tonight, Feb. 21, and runs through Sunday, March 2, with a preview tonight, Feb. 20, in the Rockwell Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(01/31/2014) - The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, continues its compelling 2013-2014 season with the Pittsburgh premiere of EM Lewis' heart-wrenching prize-winning drama, Heads. Scroll down for photos from the production!
(12/13/2013) - CHESS, the hit Broadway and London musical, was presented in Concert on December 8, 2013 at the Richland Performing Arts Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Check out a look back below!
(12/11/2013) - Point Park University presents an original, irreverent comedy, The Alchemists' Lab, directed, written and devised by Gab Cody in collaboration with students of the Conservatory Theatre Company. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(12/08/2013) - Pittsburgh CLO's 22nd annual holiday production of A Musical Christmas Carol will entertain audiences of all ages December 6-22 at the Byham Theater. Now is the perfect time to start a new holiday tradition with family and friends or rekindle a tradition from years past. Tickets are now on sale and start at just $28.75, with half-priced tickets available for children ages 3 to 14, sponsored by Macy's. Purchase tickets online at pittsburghCLO.org, by calling 412- 456-6666 or at the Box Office at Theater Square. Check out a first look at the cast in action below!
(12/02/2013) - The National Tour of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, winner of the 2012 Tony Award® for Best Musical Revival, announces an additional city to their 2013-2014 touring season. The Muny in St. Louis will host the world of Catfish Row from July 8- 13, 2014. Check out a first look at the cast in action below! Photo Credit: Michael J. Lutch
(11/15/2013) - Pittsburgh CLO welcomes the highly anticipated return of Plaid Tidings to the CLO Cabaret, now through January 12. The cast features an exciting mix of Pittsburgh CLO veterans and newcomers to the CLO Cabaret. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(11/15/2013) - Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company presents a refreshingly new take on Euripides' classic Greek tragedy, Hecuba, directed by Monica Payne. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
