May 31, 2026
Can’t-Miss Pittsburgh Art Exhibits, Concerts, and Performances: June 1-7
Fri, June 5: Squonk's Joy Machine Premiere // Photo by Sue Wallace
Monday, June 1 FEST SisTers PGH presents Pride Live Drag Experience. The Stonewall Inn Pittsburgh, Downtown
FILM Keylight Film, WIFM Pittsburgh presents The Nowhere Inn Screening Event. Government Center, North Side Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Project Screenings. The Rangos Giant Cinema at the Kamin Science Center, North Side
NETWORKING Hot Kind Artists Coffee Klatsch. Lawrence Hall, Lawrenceville
Tuesday, June 2 LIT Book Launch! Andrew Moore, "The Beasts of the East". White Whale Bookstore, Bloomfield Story Club PGH presents Story Slam! (Behind Closed Doors). Alphabet City, North Side
MUSIC Pittsburgh Youth Chorus presents A Grand Night for Singing Cabaret. Greystone Fields, Gibsonia St. Vincent with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Heinz Hall, Downtown Built to Spill. Mr. Smalls, Millvale
TALK Free Summer Lecture Series. Pittsburgh Glass Center, East Liberty Queer Quarterly: Nightlife Edition. 1Hood Media, Oakland
WORKSHOP Tech25 & Stonewolf Studios presents Liberation Lasers Workshop. Tech25, Mount Oliver
Wednesday, June 3 MUSIC The Sonder Bombs. Bottlerocket Social Hall, Allentown
STAGE Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Greer Cabaret Theater, Downtown. Continues through June 14
WORKSHOP Riverlife Pittsburgh presents Write a Thing with Holly Hilliard. Shore Thing, North Side
Thu, June 4: The Lindsay Theater's Summer Series: Nine on 90s kicks off with two showings of the 1996 romantic dramedy "Jerry Maguire" // Photo courtesy of the Lindsay Theater
Thursday, June 4 ART lux ex tenebris and Ali Pirl Exhibition Opening Reception. Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley
FILM Nine on '90s: "Jerry Maguire". The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center, Sewickley. Continues through June 14
LIT Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents Made Local: Alec Karakatsanis. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, Oakland Book Launch Party: 100 Things To Do in Pitttsburgh Before You Die. Trace Brewing, Bloomfield
MUSIC Pretty Cryptid EP Release Party & Flash Tattoos. The Mr. Roboto Project, Bloomfield
STAGE Javi Benitez in Handmade Miracles. Liberty Magic, Downtown. Continues through July 5 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater presents Coconut Cake. Helen Wayne Rauh Rehearsal Hall, Oakland. Continues through June 14 Pickleball. Little Lake Theatre Company, Canonsburg. Continues through June 14
TALK The Frick Pittsburgh Museums & Gardens presents Lunch Pail Lecture: The Duquesne Club's Origins and Henry Clay Frick's Role. The Frick Pittsburgh, Point Breeze
Thu, June 4: Sweetwater Center for the Arts presents lux ex tenebris and Ali Pirl Exhibition Opening Reception // Photo courtesy of Bianca Black
Friday, June 5 ART Whose presents Furpile: a Please-Touch Plushie Sculpture Show (FIRST FRIDAY). Mary's Bar, Garfield Eyes to See. Spinning Plate Gallery, East Liberty. Continues through June 27 Pride HOT Jam. Pittsburgh Glass Center, East Liberty I Love Furry. Bunker Projects, Bloomfield. Continues through July 19 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. Arts Landing, Downtown. Continues through June 7 Unblurred: First Friday Art Crawl. Multiple Locations, Bloomfield/Friendship, Garfield
FEST Squonk's Joy Machine Premiere. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Arts Landing, Downtown. Continues through June 7
MARKET The Garfield Night Market. BGC Community Activity Center, Garfield MUSIC The Frick Pittsburgh Museums & Gardens presents Summer Fridays at the Frick | The Stemtecs Band. The Frick Pittsburgh, Point Breeze Allegheny County Summer Concert Series presents River City Brass. South Park Amphitheater, South Park Township Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Elliot Pullen and the Pearl Snaps. Acoustic Stage at Rachel Carson Bridge, Downtown Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Spin Doctors. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown Sweetwater Center for the Arts presents Sweet Jazz with Check Your Bucket. Walnut Green, SewickleyThree Rivers Arts Festival presents Appalachian Honey. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Natalie Rogers. Acoustic Stage at Rachel Carson Bridge, Downtown Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Sunset Drive. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown The Temptations and the Four Tops. Benedum Center, Downtown Pride Amplified featuring Momma with Gaadge. Mr. Smalls, Millvale Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Broom. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presents Disco Divas. Heinz Hall, Downtown. Continues through June 7
Thu, June 4: Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents Made Local: Alec Karakatsanis // Photo of Alec Karakatsanis courtesy of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
Saturday, June 6 ART Gavin Benjamin: In The Air Tonight. Zynka Gallery, Sharpsburg. Continues through August 9 Homespun opening reception. Bottom Feeder Books, Point Breeze. Continues through July 11 East Liberty Public Art Walking Tour. East Liberty Presbyterian Church, East Liberty Nikkei: Pittsburgh Voices. Atithi Studios, Sharpsburg
DANCE Carnegie Performing Arts Center presents Spectacular, Spectacular Dance Recital. Andrew Carnegie Music Hall, Carnegie. Continues through June 7
FEST The Unplugged Society, Woolly Bear Books, and the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall presents The GOLD STAR Party! – Because You’re Doing Great. Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, Carnegie 3 Rivers Comicon. David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. Continues through June 7 Loud and Proud Music Festival. Allegheny City Brewing, North Side Pittsburgh Pride. Allegheny Commons Park West, North Side. Continues through June 7
FILM Pride Rocky Horror with a Drag Show. Row House Hollywood, Dormont
MUSIC Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Ki Lyrics. Acoustic Stage at Rachel Carson Bridge, Downtown Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Casaundra Williams. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Marcus Smith & The Rapscallions. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown McKinney & The Waymores w/ Grace Campbell. Club Cafe, Soth Side Planet K-Pop: The Ultimate K-Pop Tribute Concert. Benedum Center, Downtown Three Rivers Arts Festival presents The Pharcyde. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Lhagic. Acoustic Stage at Rachel Carson Bridge, Downtown
Sun, June 7: The Frick Pittsburgh Museums & Gardens presents Isms of Art - Tracing French Moderns // Photo courtesy of The Frick
Sunday, June 7 FEST Afro P Funk and Poetry: Exalting the Divine Feminine. Glitterbox Theater, Homestead Pittsburgh Pride March & Parade. Multiple Locations, Downtown through North Side
FILM Drusky Entertainment presents Napoleon Dynamite Live - A Conversation with Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, and Jon Gries. Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall, Homestead
MUSIC Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Trousdale. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown Ceramic Knives. Dollar Bank Stage at Arts Landing, Downtown Casey Catone. Acoustic Stage at Rachel Carson Bridge, Downtown Monroeville Recreation & Parks presents Summer Concert Series: Stacy and the Wild Cards. Tall Trees Ampitheater, Monroeville Allegheny County Summer Concert Series presents Pittsburgh Opera. Hartwood Acres Park Ampitheater, Allison Park Pittsburgh Concert Society presents Alumni Concert. Kresge Theater, CMU, Oakland Resonance Works presents Romeo & Juliette, A Resonance Works Opera Preview. Acclamation Brewing, Verona
STAGE The Jury Experience: An Immersive Courtroom Case. New Hazlett Theaater, North Side
TALK The Frick Pittsburgh Museums & Gardens presents Isms of Art - Tracing French Moderns. The Frick Pittsburgh, Point Breeze