PSO Music Director Manfred Honeck and Principal Clarinet Michael Rusinek premiere ...

PSO Music Director Manfred Honeck and Principal Clarinet Michael Rusinek premiere Alan Fletcher's new Clarinet Concerto. Also featured: Verdi's Overture to "La Forza del Destino" and Richard Strauss' grandiose self-portrait, "Ein Heldenleben."

Violinist Ann Fontanella returns for her third consecutive performance.  There will ...

Violinist Ann Fontanella returns for her third consecutive performance.  There will be a pre-concert recital by local students who will study in a master class taught by Fontanella.

A showcase of contemporary Asian and Asian-American films. A Red Carpet ...

A showcase of contemporary Asian and Asian-American films. A Red Carpet Gala begins the festival on May 9. Prominent filmmakers and actors will participate in discussion sessions.

Based on Romeo and Juliet, this Broadway classic is the love ...

Based on Romeo and Juliet, this Broadway classic is the love story of Tony and Maria.  The story of teenage delinquency and a couple's forbidden love explodes on stage for a heart-wrenching drama. 

One of Oscar Wilde's most brilliant social comedies! Starring Paul ...

One of Oscar Wilde's most brilliant social comedies! Starring Paul Todaro (Hedda Gabler & Private Lives), Beth Hylton (Private Lives), and 2007 Post-Gazette Performer of the Year David Whalen. Directed by Andrew Paul.

Written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson, this play is ...

Written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson, this play is set in a 1969 Pittsburgh diner where a turbulent world and changing community are seen through the lives of diner regulars.  The restaurant is scheduled to be torn down by the city and the characters struggle to cope and fight back when they can with humor, compassion and big hearts.

A bel canto vehicle for Laura Claycomb and Vivica Genaux. Claycomb, ...

A bel canto vehicle for Laura Claycomb and Vivica Genaux. Claycomb, the superb coloratura, is Giulietta opposite the astounding mezzo Genaux in a pants role as Romeo. Thor Steingraber directs his L. A. opera production. Antony Walker conducts.

Curated by Douglas Fogle, the show focuses on the increasingly relevant ...

Curated by Douglas Fogle, the show focuses on the increasingly relevant question of what it means to be human in the world today. Foregoing any universal answers to this question, the artists in the exhibition investigate particular aspects of the human condition, moving along paths that are both introspective and worldly while poetically traversing the dramatic spectrum from tragedy to comedy. The question, "Is there life on Mars?" is a rhetorical one, posed in the face of a world in which increasingly accelerating global events—political, social, natural, and economic—seem to challenge and threaten to overtake our most basic forms of everyday existence.

The exhibition features 24 abstract paintings by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian ...

The exhibition features 24 abstract paintings by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944), including many never shown before in the US. Mondrian’s best known paintings offer a view of abstractions and rigid forms consisting of primarily rectangular shapes of red, yellow, blue, or black, separated by thick, black, rectilinear lines.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts announce the 2008 ...

Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts announce the 2008 Biennial, an exhibit of contemporary art.  With the merger of the two organizations providing expanded resources, the 2008 Biennial presents a continuum of visual arts from still to moving images, as disciplines converge.  Encompassing both campuses of PF/PCA, the exhibit includes two new components – a cinema program and a series of art performances.