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Pittsburgh Playwrights
Theatre’s 17th season will be available for free. Each filmed production will be accompanied by an artists’ interview pre-show and a watch party on Facebook Live. Reserve seats online at pghplaywrights.org.
Brownsville Rotary Club’s Rotaract group will present the 2021 Stars on Stage in a virtual talent show May 22. The talent show is open to Brownsville Area Middle and High School students. Participants should gather in the high school auditorium at 6 p.m. The event will be streamed. Email Emily Behm at learningwithemilybehm@gmail.com for more information and registration.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will host a virtual EQT Children’s Theater Festival May 1-16. The lineup will feature free activities and workshops in addition to ticketed events. More information is available at pghkids.trustarts.org/
Pittsburgh Opera has postponed its first-ever production of George Frideric Handel’s “Semele” from February to May.
The move was made “in response to ongoing covid-19 concerns, including high cases in Allegheny County and the slower-than-hoped-for vaccine rollout,” the opera said.
“Semele” will be performed on six dates, May 8-20, at opera headquarters in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. The cast and artistic team will remain the same.
“’Semele’ is a satirical, tongue-in-cheek musical-drama confection by the master composer Handel with an elegant libretto by the great English poet William Congreve,” said General Director Christopher Hahn. “Slightly salacious and naughty, it shocked the London audience at its premiere during Lent in 1744 and will enchant Pittsburgh in 2021.”