Skip to main content
Apply Request Info

Theatre Arts Performance and Practice

Pittsburgh Playhouse 2024-25 Season
Monday, May 13, 2024 The Pittsburgh Playhouse is launching several new suites of programming including Arts Accelerator, which will connect Point Park students with professional alumni working on Broadway and beyond in the performing arts industry.
Pittsburgh Playhouse Collaboration With City Theatre Produces Plays That Respond to the Current Moment
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse and City Theatre Company have launched Homegrown Stories, designed to support artists and alumni.
The cover image of Homegrown Stories.
Pittsburgh Playhouse Announces Play Reading Series for 2020-21 Season
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Hosted in the Rauh Theatre, the new series will feature readings of original plays and musicals not previously produced by local, regional and national playwrights. Six plays will be selected, assigned a professional director and cast with Conservatory of Performing Arts students. Each play will rehearse one to two weeks and will culminate in a public reading/discussion.
The exterior of the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Photo | Emilee Fails
Regional Premiere at Prime Stage Theatre Features Point Park University Alumni and Students
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 "It’s comforting and exciting to see Point Park fostering connections with professional theaters. It’s an example of the fact that training is working; script analysis, movement, and voice and speech are all pivotal to telling this story with justice," said Vanessa Vivas, theatre major.
(L-R) Krystal Rivera, Evelyn Hernandez, Vanessa Vivas and Frances Tirado. Photo | Laura Slovesko
Tolin FX Hosts Special Effects and Blood Workshop with Theatre and Cinema Majors
Thursday, February 7, 2019 "What surprised me about this workshop was how interactive it was. We got to experiment with their equipment and I was chosen to get blasted by the blood cannon - it was an amazing experience," said student MacKenzy Cline.
Student Profile
#PittsburghMe: Meet Ashley Williams, Theatre Arts: Performance and Practices Major
Pictured is Ashley Williams, Theatre Arts: Performances and Practices Major
Point Park University Alumni in Showbiz Reunite in Times Square for "Pittsburgh on Broadway"
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
People of Point Park: Becki Dennis, '06 Followed Her Heart to Film and Television
Thursday, April 14, 2016
People of Point Park: Carmella Salem, '93 has seen it all from behind the bar
Monday, April 4, 2016
Back to Top