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  Ring in the New Year with some fresh improvisational comedy! City Paper Best of Pittsburgh Award-winning improv troupe Select Start return to the Savoyards for another round of hilarious improv comedy. Audiences will inspire the performers in interactive games and scenes throughout the show and see their suggestions turn into laughs. Encompassing long and short form improv, we guarantee you’ll laugh till it hurts! GET TICKETS! The Pittsburgh Savoyards, Inc.  is a semi-professional, community-based, non-profit theater company funded primarily by local contributions and ticket sales. We perpetuate the heritage of Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas and provide a hands-on opportunity for interested persons to learn about and experience musical theater. The Company was founded in 1938, and is informally affiliated with a number of similar groups throughout the country. DONATE

  Cast members Logan Wagner, Erik Nordstrom, and Matthew Soibelman on site at Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside. (photo credit: David Bachman)   Pittsburgh Opera presents: Curlew River Flow with fate this winter... Pittsburgh Opera is utilizing a brand new venue to bring you Benjamin Britten's haunting operatic parable,  Curlew River . Based on the Japanese Noh play  Sumidigawa River , a woman in medieval times driven mad by the mystery of her lost son learns his fate through a chance encounter with a Ferryman while crossing a river. Written in the style of monastic plain song (sung in English) and laden with musical symbolism, theatrical simplicity  will ring with grandeur at  Calvary Episcopal Church  in Shadyside, four performances only,  J anuary 24th through February 1st .   Want to learn more? Learn more about this unique production with three free events designed to dive right in to all things  Curlew River : Noh Theater and...

  WATCH VIDEO Calling All Young Aspiring Dancers to Come DANCE with Us! BRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AUDITION Friday, January 16, 2026, 6 - 7 P.M. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Studios | Byham Center for Dance 2900 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School invites children ages 7 - 9 to audition for full scholarships for the 2026 - 2027 school year. REGISTER Audition Process : From the audition, up to 15 students will be selected by a panel of PBT School educators to participate in a  PBT School Bridge Scholarship   Preparatory Class . The PBT School Bridge Scholarship Preparatory Class will  meet two days per week, on Thursdays from 4:30-5:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:45-11:45 a.m. starting February 5 and running until April 25, 2026 . The selected students must be available to attend the entire semester of the PBT School Bridge Scholarship. Preparatory Class : After the semester-long class, up to seven students will then be selected to receiv...