Current Season

Carley Bonk | Point Park's The Globe

The Pittsburgh Playhouse will be the location of the worldwide stage adaptation premiere of Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, “The Old Man and the Sea” this February.

Steve Sucato | Pittsburgh City Paper

With such a lineup of choreographers and works, the production has the potential to be one of the year’s best.

Broadway World

Point Park University's Conservatory Dance Company opens Winter Dance Concert, the first production to hit the brand new Pittsburgh Playhouse's PNC Theatre stage in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Mike Vargo | Entetainment Central Pittsburgh

Point Park University’s Conservatory Theatre stages a gripping drama based on incidents from British history.

Sara Bauknecht | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

How do you build a show for a brand new theater? With an all-star group of choreographers, hard-working dancers, hours of rehearsals and a few prayers, of course.

Ted Hoover | Pittsburgh Current

I think they had to wait for the new space to be ready because an evening of this volcanic power might have blown down the walls of the old Oakland site.

Brent Lang | Variety

Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse is collaborating with entertainment production company RWS Entertainment Group to identify and put on new theatrical productions.

The Pittsburgh 100

The Pittsburgh Playhouse of Point Park University has reopened in its new downtown location, and it’s beautiful.

Michael “Buzz” Buzzelli | 'Burgh Vivant

There’s a lot more to “Cabaret.” The show has some really fun musical numbers like “Don’t Tell Mama,” “Two Ladies” and “Maybe This Time.” Each song – every note – performed by an astounding young cast.

George Hoover | Pittsburgh in the Round

Director Zeva Barzell has brilliantly deconstructed the show and taken it back to its core, necessitated in part by the physical constraints of the Rauh Black Box theatre, the smallest and most intimate of the theatres at the new Playhouse.

Broadway World

Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company opens its inaugural season at the new Pittsburgh Playhouse with the Tony Award-winning musical, Cabaret.

George Hoover | Pittsburgh in the Round

This offering is four pieces by both emerging and established choreographers. It was a lovely night with no point shoes or ballet slippers!

By Brian Pope | Pittsburgh in the Round

More than 50 years after its premiere, Cabaret is poised to start another revolution, this time much closer to home. A new production of the show will be the inaugural production of the school’s gorgeous new Playhouse downtown.

By Barbara Vilanova | Point Park University

After 28 months of construction, the painstaking deconstruction and reconstruction of three historic-facades, and the unprecedented restoration of a 22 stained-glass-paneled ceiling from Pittsburgh’s historic Stock Exchange Building, the gleaming new Pittsburgh Playhouse is ready for its close-up.

By Mary Pickels | Trib Live

Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts' most recent honorable ranking is number eight on Playbill.com’s list of the Ten Most Represented Colleges on Broadway.

By Steve Sucato | Pittsburgh City Paper

The 2018-19 campaign is a stellar repertory mix that includes works by choreography giants Nacho Duato and Christopher Wheeldon, as well as Pittsburgh-native Kyle Abraham. 

On Stage Blog

#9 - Point Park University - An already excellent program that keeps getting better.

By Mick Stinelli | The Globe

The Playhouse, which remained a hard hat site until the end of the summer, has been a dream-in-development for years. Now, it is becoming a reality.

By Sara Bauknecht | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A bravo is in order for Point Park University’s dance program, which landed on OnStage Blog’s yearly list of top 25 college dance programs in the country.