Special Advertising Section march2020 ARTS & EVENTS IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH OPENS MARCH 5 1 SUNDAY LIBERTY MAGIC: ANNA DEGUZMAN IS PNC BROADWAY IN PITTSBURGH: THE QUEEN OF CARDISTRY CATS What Anna DeGuzman can do with a deck What began as a musical about cats after of 52 cards will make your head spin! Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book Manipulating cards into impossible 3D of poems in an airport bookshop has configurations, she cuts, flings, flips, rotates, become one of the longest-running shows juggles and shuffles playing cards in the in Broadway’s history. Winner of seven middle of the street, along train tracks and in SHOSHANA BEAN Tony Awards including Best Musical, “Cats” close-up shows at the most prestigious magic MARCH 2 features 20 of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s venues in the world. timeless melodies, including the hit song Pittsburgh Cultural Trust “Memory.” 811 Liberty Ave. / Tickets start at $40 / BYOB Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Also March 4–8, 11–15, 18–22, 25–29 Benedum Center / 1 & 6:30 p.m. Tickets start at $33 2 MONDAY THE LAST AMERICAN HAMMER Unemployed conspiracy-theorist Milcom TRUST CABARET SERIES: Negley forcibly occupies a local museum SHOSHANA BEAN and demands the FBI take his grievances Star of “Wicked,” City Center’s “Songs for seriously. “A satirical but heartfelt a New World,” and most recently Jenna in examination of the fallout that occurs when Broadway’s “Waitress,” Shoshana Bean is the American Dream fails to materialize,” thrilled to be making her Pittsburgh Cabaret “The Last American Hammer” features a debut. Expect an all-new, and in a rare turn bluegrass-infused score that brings American of events, mostly all-BROADWAY, show. roots to the operatic stage. Shoshana will sing from roles she’s played, Pittsburgh Opera roles she wants to play, roles she’ll never play, Pittsburgh Opera Headquarters / 2 p.m. and maybe even take some requests! This is $40; $20 for kids 6–18 sure to be an evening you won’t want to miss! Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Greer Cabaret Theater / 7 & 9:30 p.m. Tickets start at $45 Order tickets online at CulturalDistrict.org 03.20_073x080_PCT.indd 73 1/29/20 10:06 AM Special Advertising Section Special Advertising Section 3 TUESDAY 6 FRIDAY SOUL SESSIONS: COHEN & GRIGSBY TRUST PRESENTS: LEELA JAMES BRIT FLOYD What sets the acclaimed R&B and soul “The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show” singer-songwriter, Leela James, apart is returns to the stage in 2020 to perform her fearless approach to music. “The best its brand new production, “Echoes 2020.” artists stay true to who they are, no matter Including highlights from The Wall, The the scale,” she believes. These values have Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, allowed Leela to remain a consistent figure Animals and The Division Bell, and featuring in R&B with a discography of quality soul a show-stopping 23-minute “note-for-note” music spanning more than a decade. performance of the iconic era-defining song August Wilson African American Cultural Center Echoes, written 50 years ago, and from Pink AWAACC / 8 p.m. / Tickets start at $35 Floyd’s breakthrough 1971 album Meddle. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust / Benedum Center 8 p.m. / Tickets start at $44.25 GRIEG’S BELOVED 5 THURSDAY Also March 7 PIANO CONCERTO OPENS MARCH 6 THE SOUND OF MUSIC BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS: GRIEG’S Featuring songs such as “Edelweiss,” BELOVED PIANO CONCERTO “My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry “An artist who can truly make the piano PSO360: sing,” declares Gramophone of Yulianna Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” and “Sixteen Going PIANO POWER WITH Avdeeva. She “lets the music breathe,” on Seventeen,” The Sound of Music has YULIANNA AVDEEVA says the Financial Times of London. become a standard in the musical world for Yulianna joins together with the musicians Experience her artistry in Grieg’s beloved over fifty years! The motion picture version of the PSO in a program of brilliant keyboard Piano Concerto. And Sir Mark Elder returns remains the most popular movie musical of all works highlighting her poetic musicianship to lead the Pittsburgh Symphony in Sibelius’ time. Experience the spirited, romantic, and and dramatic flair. Enjoy it all from your seat bracing First Symphony. beloved musical story of Maria and the von on the Heinz Hall stage for an evening of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Trapp family. “Piano Power.” Heinz Hall / Tickets start at $20 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Pittsburgh Musical Theater Also March 8 Heinz Hall Stage / 8 p.m. / All tickets $75 Byham Theater / Tickets start at $18.25 Also March 6–8, 13–15 7 SATURDAY 9 AMERICAN SON MONDAY “A new American play grappling with serious, TRUST ARTS EDUCATION: TRUTHSAYERS: timely issues in a thoughtful way.” Hot off DOCUMENTING LEARNING TARANA BURKE its Broadway run, this highly charged drama THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY Tarana Burke is a civil rights activist who takes a brave look at race, gender, power Cameras are ubiquitous these days, but how was the original founder of the “Me Too” and the dangerous dynamics at play when can we best use them in our classroom? In movement, which she started in 2006. It a young African-American man intersects this workshop, you will consider how you later became a global phenomenon that with law enforcement. Mature content and might use photography to enhance, expand raised awareness about sexual harassment, language, including racial slurs. and document learning for both you and abuse and assault in society in 2017. Pittsburgh Public Theater your students. You will learn about free August Wilson African American Cultural Center O’Reilly Theater / Tickets start at $31 simple apps for photo editing and how to AWAACC / 7 p.m. / Tickets start at $35 Also March 6–8, 10–15, 17, 19–22, 24–29, 31; use visual artifacts in student assessment. April 1–5 Participants are encouraged to bring their own THE CHIEFTAINS WITH THE mobile device, however ipads will be made PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY: available for use during the class. THE IRISH GOODBYE TOUR Pittsburgh Cultural Trust BRIT FLOYD After 57 years of making some of the most Trust Arts Education Center, 807 Liberty Ave. OPENS MARCH 6 beautiful music in the world, The Chieftains 9 a.m. / $15 remain as fresh and relevant as when they first began. The six-time Grammy Award TRUST ARTS EDUCATION: YOUNG WRITERS & ILLUSTRATORS winners have been highly recognized for For Grades 6–8 reinventing traditional Irish music on a Instructors: Julie Albright and Alison Babusci. contemporary and International scale. Come Put pen to paper and use your imagination see them perform with the PSO at what will to create characters as you begin to write a be a memorable evening of music, song and truly fantastic story. Then, utilize your art- dance on this final journey. making skills to add visual detail and original Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra images to truly bring your story to life! Heinz Hall / 7:30 p.m. / Tickets start at $25 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Trust Arts Education Center, 807 Liberty Ave. 1–4 p.m. / $20 03.20_073x080_PCT.indd 74 1/29/20 10:06 AM Special Advertising Section Special Advertising Section 10 TUESDAY WORDPLAY 20 FRIDAY It’s storytelling with a twist! You’ll laugh, PNC BROADWAY IN PITTSBURGH: you’ll cry and you’ll get an extremely MANDY MOORE THE BAND’S VISIT intimate look into the life of a total stranger. Emmy-, Grammy- and Golden Globe- In an Israeli desert town where every day Bricolage Production Company nominated actress, singer and songwriter. feels the same, something different is 937 Liberty Avenue / 8 p.m. / $25 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust suddenly in the air. Dina, the local café Also March 14 Benedum Center / 8 p.m. owner, had long resigned her desires for Tickets start at $39.50 romance to daydreaming about exotic films and music from her youth. When a band of 16 MONDAY HERE + NOW Egyptian musicians shows up lost at her café, This mixed-repertory production celebrates she and her fellow locals take them in for the NATHANIEL RATELIFF choreographers creating dance for the here night. Under the spell of the night sky, their In support of an upcoming solo album, and now. Kyle Abraham’s “The Quiet Dance” lives intertwine in unexpected ways, and this Nathaniel Rateliff returns to his early captures frustration and isolation through once sleepy town begins to wake up. acoustic days with the “And It’s Still Alright” sweeping movement. The music of Paul Pittsburgh Cultural Trust tour. The show will span from Rateliff Simon sets the stage for Dwight Rhoden’s Benedum Center / Tickets start at $33 stripped back with just his voice and an visceral “Simon Said.” And PBT artist in Also March 11–15 acoustic guitar to the accompaniment of a residence Staycee Pearl presents a brand full band. The set list will feature songs from new ballet. his new album as well as his entire catalog. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre 11 WEDNESDAY Opus One and Promowest Presents August Wilson African American Cultural Center Byham Theater / 8 p.m. Tickets start at $28 MUSIC 101: Tickets start at $54.25 Also March 21–22, 27–29 MAX BLAIR, ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL OBOE “CHASING A CONCEPT” 18 WEDNESDAY HERE + NOW The Pittsburgh Symphony Association OPENS MARCH 20 presents the 37th season of Music 101, a free EQT STUDENT SIDE-BY-SIDE lunchtime series of lecture-recitals. WITH THE PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh Symphony Association SYMPHONY Heinz Hall, Dorothy Porter Simmons Regency Area high school students take to the Rooms / 12:30 p.m. / FREE Heinz Hall stage to perform alongside their Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra counterparts under the baton on Resident 13 FRIDAY Conductor Andrés Franco! Hear works by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Suppé, celebrating BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS: the diverse musical pursuits of our region’s BRAHMS FIRST talented young musicians.