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  Elizabeth Elias Huffman as Fuirst lady and Doren Elias as Elish Photo Credit PICT Theatre           PICT Theatre’s U.S. premiere staging of Turkish/French playwright, Sedef Ecer’s, political satire The First Lady opens on a government ministers meeting in a hypothetical country somewhere in Mesopotamia.           Seen on video on a pair of screens on either side of the stage, the trio of officials (Art DeConsillis, Ricardo Vila-Roger and John Dolphin) scramble for a solution to the large-scale demonstrations taking place in the capital streets against their authoritarian regime,           The president has fled the country, and the crisis seems to be growing larger with every passing hour. “What do we do?” they ask one another in desperation.           They decide to enlist the help of the count...

  The year is 1849, you’re strolling through New York City on a brisk autumn evening and decide to take in a lecture by a rising young author and literary critic named Edgar Allan Poe. What would that have been like? A new Prime Stage Theatre play by Pittsburgh sci-fi/horror fiction writer Lawrence C. Connolly offers a glimpse of Poe’s celebrated magnetism in Mr. Edgar A. Poe Presents: Tales of Mystery, Horror & Imagination. The world premiere production runs for seven shows Nov. 7-16, 2025 at New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, on Pittsburgh’s Northside. Directed by Art DeConciliis, Mr. Edgar A. Poe Presents: Tales of Mystery, Horror & Imagination recreates the dark genius of Poe in his prime performing a selection of favorite tales before a spellbound live audience. The Poe play is the first production in Prime Stage Theatre’s 2025-26 season of world premiere plays by Pittsburgh playwrights that includes Freedom House:  Giving Life a Second Chance by L.E. M...

      This evening at 7:30, PICT Theater will open its 2025-26 season with a U.S. premiere of a work by Turkish/French playwright, Sedef Ecer. “First Lady” is a comic satire with a serious and solemn message about the unraveling of an unspecified autocratic state located somewhere in Mesopotamia. Artistic director Elizabeth Elias Huffman takes on the role of the unwitting First Lady, cocooned in her summer palace as all hell is breaking out in rebellion and insurgence against an autocratic regime. To quell the revolt, state ministers, in a state of desperation, plan to have the First Lady speak to the populace on a live impromptu TV broadcast to mollify the citizenry. More attuned to wearing expensive attire created in part by her flamboyant trans designer, Gazal, than politicking on the airwaves, things go comedically wrong for the hapless woman, encouraged and manipulated by her Machiavellian advisor and protector, Elis, in her televised interview with young, naïve ...

  EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE OF MODERN DANCE   AILEY II TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 | 7:30PM On  Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 7:30pm , the  August Wilson African American Cultural Center   (AWAACC)  welcomes  Ailey II: The Next Generation of Dance  to Pittsburgh as part of a 39-city world tour. The 2025-2026 repertory features four compelling world premieres by emerging and established choreographers including former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II member  Chalvar Monteiro ,  Rena Butler ,  Renée I. McDonald , and  My’Kal Stromile. Tickets start at $63.   GET YOUR TICKETS   For more than five decades, Ailey II has merged the spirit and energy of the country’s best early-career dance talent with the passion and artistry of today’s most outstanding and emerging choreographers. Founded in 1974 as a bridge between  The Ailey School  and the professional dance world, the company embodies  Alvin Ailey’s ...

  Mark Your Calendar - Tickets Available Soon The Dwayne Dolphin All Stars December 6, 2025 @ 7:30 PM Featuring: Dwayne Dolphin - bass Orrin Evans - piano Jeff “Tain” Watts - drums Fred Wesley - trombone New Hazlett Theater Center for Performing Arts 6 Allegheny Square East   Northside Mark Your Calendar   - Tickets Available Soon Connect with us!