Pittsburgh Business Times - Looking to capture the energy generated by the StartUP PGH week of events, local nonprofit Pittsburgh Tomorrow kept the festivities rolling into the weekend.
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Hoodline - Pittsburgh has more people dying than being born, a demographic hole that dates back to the 1980s steel collapse and now makes Greater Pittsburgh the worst performer among all 387 U.S. metro areas for natural population decline.
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Centre Daily Times - Those who want to get a glimpse of Pittsburgh's bright future need to simply look at its artists. Nineteen local luminaries have joined forces to collaborate on "Pittsburgh Tomorrow: A City on the Rise," a multimedia project that will be celebrated at Rockwell Park in Point Breeze North on Friday.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Nineteen local creatives are collaborating on a series of performance installations that combine dance, music, animation, photography, painting and interactive media as the grand finale of the Start-UP PGH conference showcasing Pittsburgh’s innovation and potential to outside investors and developers.
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Pittsburgh Quarterly - An inaugural weeklong Pittsburgh exhibition including the “StartUP PGH” innovation conference and the first-ever Pittsburgh Homecoming crescendos Sept. 18 with an epic, future-themed event: “Pittsburgh Tomorrow, A City on the Rise,” featuring interactive installations by 20 Pittsburgh creatives including Oscar-winner Brendan Burch, world-renowned experiential artist Johannes DeYoung, Attack Theatre founders and artistic directors Michele de la Reza and Peter Kope, and DJ and producer Hussein Pwono, aka DJ pvkvsv.
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onStage Pittsburgh - Attack Theatre, Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST), and PearlArts Movement & Sound have launched Place to Space, a shared initiative and pilot program offering subsidized rehearsal space to expand equitable access to professional performing artists throughout Pittsburgh.
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North Hills Monthly - Thirty years ago, two dancers met in Pittsburgh dancing for a local company. They fell in love and founded Attack Theatre. Their desire to create new and inspirational dance for Pittsburgh audiences was received with open arms.
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Tribune Review - Anyone familiar with the music and subculture of the Grateful Dead understands the innate physicality of a Dead show. A closely packed crowd flows in unison with the slow build of a jam, collectively exhaling as melodies resolve. The audience gives its energy to the band, and the band gives it right back to the music.
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Pittsburgh Today Live - Pittsburgh Magazine's Sean Coiller is back giving his rundown of the best events you can check out in the city this weekend!
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arts air - Who the f-word is Attack Theatre? Those words were uttered in frustration by a famous rock singer some years back after Attack’s longtime music director, Dave Eggar, told them he couldn’t perform with them because of a prior commitment with the small-scale Pittsburgh dance troupe.
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onStage Pittsburgh - As Attack Theatre’s 30th anniversary season unfolds, the company turns toward memory, chance, and the fleeting moments that shape experience.
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Pittsburgh Today Live - Yu-Ling Behr from Kidsburgh is back and while we may still be in winter's grasp, many summer camps are getting ready for the upcoming season, and she shares them with us!
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WESA - Pittsburgh’s three largest theater companies might be parting ways in terms of a potential merger. But this week, the troupes announced a new joint marketing initiative they hope will help performing-arts groups across the city.
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Pittsburgh Business Times - Although a possible merger between three of the region's performing arts giants did not materialize, those efforts have led to a new campaign encouraging Pittsburghers to go see a show.
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onStage Pittsburgh - Go See a Show, a regional initiative currently involving nearly 20 producing theater companies, is underway, offering discounts to performances and aiming to “reenergize local audiences and celebrate the enduring impact of live theater.”
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onStage Pittsburgh - Whether the hustle and bustle of the holiday season has left you feeling like the Grinch, or you are one candy cane away from becoming Buddy the Elf, Attack Theatre’s Holidays and Hops is guaranteed to spread relaxing holiday cheer to all ages. With the clever tagline, “a dance event with cheer and craft beer,” Holiday Hops combines the best of Attack Theater’s innovative dance styles with Trace Brewing’s crafted libations and mocktails.
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Pittsburgh Union Progress - Attack Theatre has created a special performance this Sunday that promises to level up participants’ imaginations as they move, play and create stories.
“Imagination Station: Game On” will create a “a vibrant world inspired by the magic of video games” from 2 to 3 p.m. at the company’s Lawrenceville studios.
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How will Pennsylvania solve its critical teacher shortage?
The state saw its largest single-year loss of teachers in 2023 and these losses continue. But while we know that finding new ways to attract and empower future educators is crucial, we also know that filling classrooms with well-trained, mission-driven teachers isn’t easy.
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‘Burgh Vivant - Attack Theatre’s “Some Assembly Required” was first commissioned by the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1996. It’s being brought back to celebrate the company’s thirtieth anniversary. Congratulations to the founders of Attack Theatre, Michele de la Reza and Peter Kope, on thirty successful years. This signature Attack Theatre experience is described as, “part performance, part conversation and entirely alive.” It is every bit as intriguing as it sounds!
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