182 stories by "Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
Pittsburgh's arts landscape is struggling to stabilize in the wake of the pandemic and low attendance.
The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble is taking drastic steps to insure its future.
Pittsburgh symphony music donate tickets foundations arts funding diversity
The Pittsburgh Symphony's latest premiere was a musical depiction of the steel-making process.
Composer Maurice Ravel's music was popular in his lifetime, but audiences grew came to associate him primarily with one tune:Â "Bolero."
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is adding a new position to allow for greater focus on the school's pre-professional offerings.
Concentrating resources on the musicians rather than attempting to fully stage a production could help improve quality.
"We Shall Not Be Moved" originally premiered in 2017 is set in North Philadelphia in the abandoned headquarters of the MOVE organization.
The underbelly of the internet remains a dark place... In 2017, the Russian Duma criminalized the creation of pro-suicide groups.
"In opera, if we end up telling new stories in old ways we haven't gotten ourselves much farther down the road."
It was audition day at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, which set a recent record with the "Nutcracker," with around 32,000 tickets sold.
This wasn't a typical concert, where listeners sit in silence. It was more interactive " at times for better and at times for worse.
In the 1970s, Melvin Goldman bought a tape recorder and talked through his memories of his early life and the Holocaust...
The play sounds a bit like a cross between a murder mystery, an art installation and a reality TV show.
It's a bit like if Shakespeare drafted a mistaken identity plot and threw in some infanticide on a ghastly whim.
Mozart didn't finish the "Requiem" before his death at the age of 35.
Even the classical fans that still attend concerts can't easily articulate why they like a Beethoven symphony.
This week, Murray appears with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Mozart's "Requiem," his final " unfinished " composition.
