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Must-See Pittsburgh Art Exhibits, Concerts, and Performances: April 14-20


A historical photo shows a person in a casual outfit and a person in a formal suit and hat, set against a modern city street backdrop with a YMCA sign. The image blends past and present with a seamless transition from grayscale to color.
Remembering & Imagining at Silver Eye Center for Photography // Image by Adrian Jones, Charles "Teenie" Harris, courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art

Monday, April 14

TALK

Radio as Passage Way: Transsexual approaches to radio, pranks, and the violence of visibility. College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 6-7:30 p.m.

 

MUSIC

Cleaner Tapes Record Show. Bantha Tea Bar, Garfield. 7-10 p.m.

 

FILM

Erotic Thrillers Week. Row House Cinema, Lawrenceville. Various times. Continues through April 17.

Tuesday, April 15

ART

Remembering & Imagining: Visualizing the Past, Present and Future with Archives. Silver Eye Center for Photography, Bloomfield. 6:30-7:30 p.m.

 

STAGE

PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh presents Some Like It Hot. Benedum Center, Downtown. 7:30 p.m. Continues through April 20.

Titanic, The Musical. School of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 8 p.m. Continues through April 23.

 

MUSIC

Black Girl Beat Bootcamp. Homewood YMCA, Homewood. 1-4 p.m. Continues through April 17.

Don Aliquo Jr. and Sr. Quintet: Generations in Jazz. Lounge at the Greer Cabaret, Downtown. 5 p.m. 

Expressionist painting of a group of people with bold, contrasting colors and exaggerated features. Figures appear intertwined, displaying a variety of emotions. The background is abstract with green and warm tones, creating a dynamic and vivid composition.
Joan Kee: The Wealth of Many Inseparables // Image of Zainab Reddy, “The Human Race (Or Maja),” courtesy of Iziko South African National Gallery

TALK

Joan Kee: The Wealth of Many Inseparables. School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. 5:30-7 p.m.

 

LITERATURE

International Poetry Forum presents Srikanth Reddy. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, Oakland. 6:30-7:30 p.m.

An Evening with Jessica Merchant. Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley. 7 p.m.

STORY CLUB: A Storytelling Night. Bottlerocket Social Hall, Allentown. 7:30 p.m.

Srikanth Reddy: Poetry of the Underworld. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, Oakland. 6:30-7:30 p.m. 

 

COMEDY

Arcade Academy’s IMPROV 202 presents 202uesday. Arcade Comedy Theater, Downtown. 7 p.m.

Are You Garbage: Back on the Block Tour. Pittsburgh Improv, Homestead. 7 p.m.

 

FILM

Funhouse Film Club: Taxday Session. The Funhouse, Mr. Smalls Theatre, Millvale. 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 16

ART

Guided Evening Tour of Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War. The Frick Art Museum, Point Breeze. 

 

MUSIC
Howling Giant with Star Viper and Cactustache. Preserving Underground, New Kensington. 7 p.m. 

Sam Blasucci with Julia Zivic. Bottlerocket Social Hall, Allentown. 8 p.m.

 

TALK

Thinkers & Drinkers with Daniel Gurwin. Two Frays Brewery, Garfield. 7 p.m.

 

A surreal painting of a person at a table eating from a bowl, with an open skull revealing a brain. The table has a wine bottle, glass, cereal box with Parental Advisory, two eggs with bacon, and a digital clock showing 3:56.
Shyann Maragh’s “Overthinking for Breakfast,” on exhibit at On the Edge Of // Photo by Chris Uhren

Thursday, April 17

ART

2024-2025 Featured Artists Workshop with Artist Laverne Kemp. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville. 5-7 p.m.

Japan America Society of Pennsylvania - Mitsubishi Electric 2025 Japan Lecture Series - Then and Now: Japanese Performing Arts. Point Park University, Downtown. 6-8 p.m.

On the Edge Of 2025 Distillery Exhibition Opening Reception. Brew House Arts, South Side. 6-8:30 p.m. Continues through June 7.

 

LITERATURE

Your Relationship To Pittsburgh with Njaimeh Njie. University of Pittsburgh Community Engagement Center, Hill District. 6 p.m.

Sex and Death BC Vol. 2. Brillobox, Bloomfield. 8 p.m.

 

FILM

Through the Kaleidoscope: Diversity in Film. The Lindsay Theater, Sewickley. 7 p.m.

 

NETWORKING

Open Door presented by The Genesis Collective. Whitted Media Content House, Beaver Falls. 5:30-8:30 p.m.

 

STAGE

Almost 40 & Single. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Downtown. 7 p.m. Continues through April 27.

Friday, April 18

ART

Introduction to Lori Felker. The Glitterbox Theater, Homestead. 8-10 p.m.

 

LITERATURE

Poetry Unplugged: Always August. August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Downtown. 7 p.m.

 

STAGE

Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre presents Miss Julie. Carnegie Stage, Carnegie. 8 p.m. Continues through May 2.

 

FILM

Donnie Darko. Carnegie Science Center, North Side. 7-9 p.m.

A woman in an elegant white gown and a man in a tuxedo stand closely on stage in a theatrical performance. The man gently holds the womans arm, and they gaze at each other with a porthole window as the backdrop.
Some Like It Hot // Photo by Matthew Murphy

Saturday, April 19

ART

An Artist Talk with Charlotte Ka. Lohr Gallery, Wilkinsburg. 1-4 p.m.

Thought Robbers Pop Up. The Oaklander Hotel, Oakland. 5-9 p.m.

The Future Is Black presents Art in Bloom Showcase & Mixer. Historic Wilkinsburg Train Station, Wilkinsburg. 6-9 p.m.

 

STAGE

King James. City Theatre, South Side. 5:30 p.m. Continues through May 11.

 

DANCE

Pittsburgh Dance Council presents Twyla Tharp Dance. Byham Theater, Downtown. 7:30 p.m.

 

MUSIC

Ellen Pieroni and Encyclopedia of Soul. Con Alma, Shadyside. 7-11 p.m.

The New Mastersounds. Thunderbird Café & Music Hall, Lawrenceville. 8 p.m.

Dereos Roads & Jumbled Album Release Party: Saw the Landmark Missed the Turn. Poetry Lounge, Millvale. 8-11 p.m.

Longturn presents InnerSound (Spring Edition). COBRA Pittsburgh, Bloomfield. 9:45 p.m.

 

LITERATURE

An Afternoon with Author Brenda Tate. Riverstone Books, Squirrel Hill. 2-3 p.m.

Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange presents A Spring Fling – Death, Sex, and the Zeitgeist. Bantha Tea Bar, Garfield. 7 p.m.

Reading & Conversation! “Ditch Memory” by Todd Davis w/Ryan Walsh. White Whale Bookstore, Bloomfield. 7 p.m.

Sunday, April 20

HAPPY EASTER! :)

 

MUSIC

Good Bye Bad Sauna. Address disclosed upon registration. 12-10 p.m.

The Criticals. The Smiling Moose, South Side. 6:30 p.m.

 

DRINK

Up in Smoke FOSSL Release Party. Eleventh Hour Brewing Co., Lawrenceville. 1-7 p.m.


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