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Free tickets available for Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra’s season finale
Free tickets are available for the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra’s season finale concert on May 5 in Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh. Doors will open one hour prior to the 7:30 p.m. performance. Conducted by PYSO music director Earl Lee, the program will feature: • Keiko Abe’s “Prism Rhapsody,” with soloist...
Entertainment planner: May 2-15
Thursday May 2 “Blank,” 12 Peers Theater production, Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland. Through May 19. 412-626-6784 or 12peerstheater.org “An Evening of One Acts,” California University of Pennsylvania, California. Through May 4. 724-938-5943 or calu.edu Friday May 3 “Fahrenheit 451,” Heritage Players production, Seton Center, Brookline....
Pittsburgh Playhouse’s 2019-20 season includes world-premiere musical
The stage is set for the Pittsburgh Playhouse’s Conservatory Theatre Company’s next season. The 2019-20 lineup at the Point Park University theater features a mix of new and classic works, including the Tony Award-winning musical “Parade” directed by Tony Award-winning alumnus Rob Ashford. Other shows include: the world premiere musical...
‘It’s gonna be May’ so bring on the Justin Timberlake memesVideo
It’s finally May. We know it brings flowers and all, but it also brings another beautiful sight. Yes, you know what I’m talking about — the “it’s gonna be May” Justin Timberlake memes. Not a JT aficionado? People explains it nicely: Guess What? It's Gonna Be May: Everything to Know...
Kristen Stewart celebrates young stars redefining sexuality
Kristen Stewart says she felt a “huge responsibility” to define her sexuality after finding fame in the “Twilight” movie franchise. But she’s glad today’s young stars don’t have to do so. The 29-year-old actress said she was “so gay” on “Saturday Night Live” two years ago. But she sees a...
Hugs, tears mark taping of final ‘Big Bang Theory’ episode
BURBANK, Calif. — Hugs and tears punctuated the final taping of “The Big Bang Theory,” a lovefest for its stars, crew and audience alike. There were plenty of punchlines as well, as the true-to-form hit comedy about scientists and those who love them wrapped the two-part, hour-long finale that will...
Eric Church brings Double Down tour to Pittsburgh for 2 nights
Few artists have the popularity, fan demand and stamina to do what Eric Church is doing: performing two consecutive shows at a big venue in big city. Country stars — Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan and Toby Keith — have given Pittsburgh two or more consecutive concerts at giant, packed venues...
‘Rent’ co-stars reunite for evening of music at the Reilly TheaterVideo
Anyone lucky enough to have a “forever friend” — a best buddy they might not see for weeks or months, but whenever they get back together, it’s like old times — can identify with the relationship between Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. The two performers met in 1996 when they...
Palace Theatre comes alive with the ‘Sound of Music’
There will never be too many versions of “The Sound of Music,” the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical spectacular with a score packed with lovely music and a cast filled with just-as-lovely kids. Following the original 1959 Broadway show and the 1965 film adaptation starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, the...
‘Game of Thrones’: Breaking down ‘The Long Night’Video
***WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD THROUGH SEASON 8, EPISODE 3 OF ‘GAME OF THRONES’ AS WELL AS MINOR BOOK SPOILERS*** Join us for our extremely limited video series, “Thrones’n’at,” where we discuss the latest episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Obviously, we’re a little late to the game, considering there are three...
5 CMU grads earn Tony Award nominations
For 11 years in a row, at least one Carnegie Mellon University graduate has received a Tony Award nomination, according to spokeswoman Julie Mattera. Five School of Drama alumni are nominated for 11 nominations for their Broadway behind-the-scenes work, Mattera says. The Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning. Leading...
‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ movie is all about Jim Carrey’s villain
The first trailer for “Sonic The Hedgehog” polarized the internet Tuesday. One camp slammed the appearance of the hedgehog character and doubted the overall storyline. #SonicMovie is just Hop 2 starring sonic the hedgehog pic.twitter.com/qCCauRXCFj— ky ??✨ (@sleepymrshmllow) April 30, 2019 When you go on Twitter and say that the...
Luke Perry’s daughter says school is being named after him in Malawi
Late actor Luke Perry is being honored in Malawi through the efforts of his daughter. Sophie Perry, 18, announced Monday that a school in the African nation has been named after her dad, who died in early March after suffering a stroke. “Thank you to everybody who donated to help...
Patti LaBelle to headline Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival
The iconic Patti LaBelle will be the featured performer at the annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival in June. Presented by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, the event is curated and directed by Janis Burley Wilson, president and CEO of the cultural center. The festival is a combination of...
Vandergrift photographer will be art league’s featured speaker
Photographer and illustrator Tom Gallovich of Vandergrift will be the featured speaker at the East Suburban Artists League’s meeting on Thursday. Gallovich — author of “Power Composition for Photography: Develop Your Artistic Eye,” which provides advice for aspiring shutterbugs — is a former instructor at the Oakbridge Academy in Lower...
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy offers discounted pass for PNC Carousel at Schenley Plaza
Get a season pass for Pittsburgh’s carousel at a discounted price. The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is offering 2019 PNC Carousel Family Season Passes for $45 until May 12. After that, the price goes back to $60 for the pass that lets two adults and up to four children ride the...
Obamas unveil slate of series, documentaries for Netflix
NEW YORK — Barack and Michelle Obama have unveiled a slate of projects in development for Netflix, a year after the former president and first lady signed a deal with the streaming platform. The Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground Productions, on Tuesday announced a total of seven films and series...
Netflix announces deal for film about Thailand’s cave boys
BANGKOK — Netflix announced Tuesday it is joining with the production company for the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” to make a film about last July’s dramatic rescue of 12 village boys in northern Thailand who were trapped with their soccer coach in a flooded cave for more than two weeks....
Cabaret Theatre production explores life of Emily Dickinson
The life of poet Emily Dickinson will be portrayed in the Cabaret Theatre production of “The Belle of Amherst,” with opening night at 7:30 p.m. May 1 in Olde Main Theater, 350 Main St., Latrobe. The 1976 play by William Luce will run for eight performances through May 11, with...
John Williams’ salute concludes orchestra’s 50th seasonVideo
Edge-of-your-seat music will conclude the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra’s 50th season, with a special salute to film score composer John Williams. “The Music of John Williams” concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. May 11 at the Palace Theatre, 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg. The program will feature classic film music...
Filmmaker John Singleton found a perfect marriage of movie, momentVideo
Rarely have a filmmaker and a moment been so perfectly matched as John Singleton and the summer of 1991. When “Boyz N the Hood” was released that July, Singleton took what had become a cultural obsession — South-Central Los Angeles and the young black men growing up in it —...
‘Tootsie,’ ‘Beetlejuice’ land Tony Award nomination for best musical
NEW YORK — “Hadestown,” singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Broadway debut, earned a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, followed by the jukebox musical “Ain’t Too Proud,” built around songs by the Temptations, which received a dozen nominations. The musical “Hadestown,” which intertwines the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and...
Christian pop singer Amy Grant to sing at Plum church
Singer Amy Grant, sometimes called “The Queen of Christian Pop,” will perform at 7 p.m. May 4 at Amplify Church, Pittsburgh East Campus, 9400 Saltzburg Road, Plum. Tickets at $32.50 and $37.50 are available at 800-965-9234 or itickets.com. Since the beginning of her music career in the late 1970s, Grant...
Daniel Radcliffe to return to London stage in Beckett play
LONDON — Daniel Radcliffe is returning to the London stage in a Samuel Beckett double bill. The Old Vic Theatre says the former “Harry Potter” star will appear alongside Alan Cumming in a production of Beckett’s bleak comedy “Endgame” that opens in February. It will be performed along with Beckett’s...
Home-schoolers bring ‘Annie’ to Lamp stage
They’re a group of home-schoolers — but they haven’t been at home much lately. As members of Stage Right’s Arts in Education classes, the cyber school students and home-schoolers ages 6 to 19 have been busy preparing for their end-of-the-school-year musical production at the theater company’s School for the Performing...
