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Is Hannah Montana making a comeback?Video
With this Facebook post, singer Miley Cyrus sent the long-ago fans of her TV alter-ego Hannah Montana into a tizzy. The short video clip has already garnered more than 289,000 views, 3,100 shares and 2,200 comments. Cyrus starred in the Disney program, which premiered 13 years ago, with her dad...
‘Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical’ to make Pittsburgh debut at Byham Theater
The popular 1999 film “Cruel Intentions” has been transformed into a stage musical and a touring production of“Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical,” will make a stop at the Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Pittsburgh, for an 8 p.m. April 20 show. Tickets start at $49. Based on the French novel,...
Pittsburgh New Works Festival seeks 1-act plays
Time is running out. Playwrights with one-act stories, never before produced, may submit to the Pittsburgh New Works Festival through April 5. Twelve, one-act plays will be selected for performance as mainstage productions for the festival’s 29th season, which begins in September. An additional six plays will be chosen for...
Thorgy Thor to make U.S. premiere with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Bringing together classic music lovers and drag lovers into one room, Thorgy and the Thorchestra will make its U.S. premiere with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra June 27. The Heinz Hall show will bring Thorgy Thor, famed worldwide from the hit shows “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “Drag Me Down the Aisle,”...
Brashear High School hopes to thrill audiences in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’Video
Cass Wilkes is a senior at Carrick High School, but she’s been spending a lot of time this spring at Brashear High School. Her school doesn’t have a spring musical. So she auditioned for Brashear’s “Little Shop of Horrors,” a science-fiction, horror mashup with performances at 7 p.m. Friday and...
‘Fake’ Botticelli work turns out to be original from artist’s studio
LONDON — Art experts in Britain have discovered that a painting long thought to be a fake Sandro Botticelli in fact came from the master’s own Florence workshop. After stripping back a century of yellowing varnish and surface dirt, conservators confirmed Thursday that “Madonna Of The Pomegranate” — a smaller...
Country musician Luke Combs announces Pittsburgh tour date
Country musician Luke Combs announced Thursday that he will bring “Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour” to Pittsburgh this fall. Combs will visit PPG Paints Arena on Nov. 23 with with Morgan Wallen and Jameson Rodgers. Presale tickets will be available Tuesday at 10 a.m. Ticket details are available at...
Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott nervous about rock hall speech
NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Elliott has no problem addressing huge crowds at concerts and festivals. But when his band Def Leppard gets inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday, it’s the speech that will make him uneasy. “Getting up and going ‘How’s everybody doing? Are...
Review: ‘Dumbo’ remake adds digital wizardry to classic characterVideo
The original “Dumbo” was released in the summer of 1941 while Germany was spreading across Europe and war was breaking out in the Pacific. Crafted as a simpler Disney fable after the more extravagant “Fantasia” disappointed at the box office, “Dumbo” — only 64 minutes in length — took flight...
Pittsburgh Festival Opera celebrates Mister Rogers with gala, stage premiere
The Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s annual gala will honor the late Fred Rogers and his work as both television producer and composer, according to a news release. The event “A Beautiful Night in the Neighborhood” will be held May 11 at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side. The...
India.Arie, Marty Stuart top list of Three Rivers Art Festival acts
A diverse music lineup is promised for the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, coming June 7-16 to Point State Park, Gateway Plaza and the Cultural District in downtown Pittsburgh. “Embarking on our 60th year, the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Art Festival continues to attract a broad range of entertainment...
Entertainment planner: March 28-April 10
Thursday March 28 “Above, Below, After, Until: CMU MFA Exhibit,” Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. Through April 7. 412-268-3618 or miller-ica.cmu.edu Russell Peters, Pittsburgh Improv, Homestead. Through March 30. 412-462-5233 or improv.com/pittsburgh Friday March 29 Ten: A Tribute to Pearl Jam, Jergel’s Rhythm Grille, Warrendale. 724-799-8333...
KISS returns to Pittsburgh 1 more timeVideo
The year was 1975 when renowned Pittsburgh concert promoter and “Behind the Stage Door” author Rich Engler says music history flashed before his eyes. He was surprised at how a relatively unknown band he booked to play the 3,700-seat Stanley Theater for its first Pittsburgh show carried itself like a...
Penn-Trafford Drama Guild prepares to stage ‘The Addams Family’Video
The Penn-Trafford High School Drama Guild will stage “The Addams Family” as its spring musical this year. However, it’s actually more like the Addams Extended Family. “We had the talent this year to double-cast all of our lead roles,” director Tom Bekavec said. Moving the story of the old black-and-white...
From flickers of black and white to online programming, WQED turns 65
WQED HISTORY TIMELINE 1954 WQED became the nation’s first community-supported television station with its first broadcast on April 1. “The Children’s Corner” with host Josie Carey and producer, puppeteer and composer Fred Rogers was one of the first regularly scheduled shows on WQED. 1955 WQED broadcast the first televised school...
Yough students stage ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’Video
Yough Senior High School students will present the musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” March 29-31. “It’s my favorite show,” says director Tracy Light. She’s performed in and directed the show, and felt confident staging it at Yough (for the second time), even with a cast of only 20...
‘La Boheme’ is the opera for everyone
Some operas are great introductions to the art form. Others appeal more to connoisseurs. But Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme” is both, an experience to be eagerly anticipated for just about anyone. The powerful story is about young artists living together because they are poor, one of whom find true love...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals last season story line of ‘Veep’
NEW YORK — Julia Louis-Dreyfus still had tears to shed as she said her official farewell to “Veep.” The only problem is she forgot to bring tissues. Shooting wrapped for the series in December, but those tearful goodbyes were not enough as she and the cast of the HBO comedy...
Nirvana manager waited 25 years to write his Kurt Cobain book
“Danny, he’s dead.” It was March 4, 1994, and David Geffen, the record mogul who had signed Nirvana just three years earlier, was calling band manager Danny Goldberg to share the terrible news: Kurt Cobain had overdosed on a powerful sedative while in Rome. Strangely enough, it was a false...
Greensburg artist featured at East Suburban Artists League’s April meeting
In high school, Brian McCall of Greensburg didn’t take art classes, despite having a seemingly natural ability to draw. Instead of delving into a creative career path, he signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox. But when injuries cut short his baseball career after just four years in 1964,...
Writers group event will showcase new ‘Phantom Detectives’ book
Ligonier Valley Writers will host a reading and book-signing for “Phantom Detectives at Risk” from 1-4 p.m. March 30 at Craftique Collections, 770 East Pittsburgh St., Greensburg. Authors will read from the mystery anthology, the fourth book in the group’s “Sleuths and Serpents Mystery Collection” series, published as a fundraiser....
Friday Evening Music Club to present recital at Pitt-Greensburg
The Friday Evening Music Club will present a recital at 7:30 p.m. March 29 in the Campana Chapel and Lecture Hall at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg in Hempfield. The recital will open with a piece by French baroque composer J. B. Boismortier, performed by Linda Urbani, Chuck Kauric and Michele...
Chinese viewers balk at ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ film censorship
BEIJING (AP) — A huge fan of rock legends Queen, Peng Yanzi rushed to see “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the biopic about the band’s late lead singer, Freddie Mercury, while he was traveling in Britain last October. It was a touching film that made him cry hard, Peng says. He loved it...
Pittsburgh’s WQED celebrates 65 years of public broadcasting
WQED’s history is a storied one. Its expansion to radio, digital and community programming has always held education as its foundation. An early holder of an educational broadcast license, WQED began with a flicker of life on VHF Channel 13 at 8 p.m. on April 1, 1954, in Pittsburgh. It...
‘Disney in Concert’ promises the soaring sounds of old favorites
Animation has come a long way since Walt Disney set up his first Hollywood studio in the silent film era. And as his studio added sound, and went to feature length films and diversified to live casts, acquired television channels and opened entertainment parks, it has grown to be a...
