Virtuoso Tracy Mortimore does amazing and surprising things with a string bass! Tracy will play contemporary works that manipulate the sound of the bass using electronics of various kinds. Composers include Kaija Saariho, Alexandra Gardner, Stefano Scodanibbio, and Tracy himself. Free admission, $20 suggested donation. Allegheny Unitarian Church is a beautiful stone building from 1905. […]

The Pittsburgh Savoyards continue their 88th season this fall with Gilbert and Sullivan’s penultimate operetta, Utopia, Limited. Performances will be held October 10-12 and 17-19 2025 at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie, PA (Directions and parking). Online livestreams are also available for select performances (11th and 18th). All performances will […]

Poet Yona Harvey (You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love) and scholar Tahira J. Walker (Rhetoric, Intersectionality, and Black Women in Pittsburgh) explore what it means to be a Black woman living in a city deemed most unlivable for them. The pair will discuss their respective works and the intersection of history, community, […]

What are we missing when we limit the canon to American works? What books from outside of the US should we be putting at the top of our lists? In this program, City of Asylum Writers-in-Residence Anouar Rahmani, Mukhtar Shehata, Bertony Louis, and Olena Boryshpolets share the books and writers from their home countries—Algeria, Egypt, […]

Bethany Baptist Church Community Minitries will host a Musical Celebration in honor of its 25th Anniversary to the community. The Musical will feature choirs, soloists, Liturgical Dances, from Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas. The Musical is schduled for SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2025, 3:00 P.M. Admission is FREE. For information, contact Dr. Herbert V.R.P. Jones, Minister […]

Poets Aaron El Sabrout, imogen xtian smith, and Julian Talamantez Brolaski take to the Alphabet Reading Garden for a poetic exploration of ecologies. These trans and nonbinary writers will embark on a poetic exploration of their own homes, with special attention to the intricacies of our ecosystems, formed by both the natural world and our […]

Writer-in-Residence Volodymyr Rafeyenko has supplied a 600-word essay in Ukrainian to be translated by both Mark Andryczyk and Dominique Hoffman. In this program, Mark and Dominique go head-to-head to defend their translations. Who will come out on top?

Anne Carson is one of the most celebrated classicists of our times. Her translations and essays have transported the texts of Aeschylus and Sophokles through time and space to bring them to today’s modern audiences. This program features staged readings of two of Anne’s works: Cassandra Float Can (based on Aeschylus’s Cassandra) and Antigonick (based […]

When a candle flickers, love sparks. Set against the backdrop of bohemian Paris, La Bohème follows four impoverished artists surviving with little more than friendship, passion, and their love for art. When Rodolfo, a poet, and Mimì, a young seamstress, meet, the two are drawn into a tumultuous and passionate affair with a love that […]

Get swept away in cinematic sound. Khachaturian’s Masquerade Suite opens the program with lush waltzes and high drama. International violin sensation Timothy Chooi takes center stage in Korngold’s Violin Concerto, a dazzling work with all the musical drama of old Hollywood. The night concludes with Borodin’s powerful Symphony No. 2, a heroic and majestic work […]

The Pittsburgh Savoyards continue their 88th season this fall with Gilbert and Sullivan’s penultimate operetta, Utopia, Limited. Performances will be held October 10-12 and 17-19 2025 at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie, PA (Directions and parking). Online livestreams are also available for select performances (11th and 18th). All performances will […]