May 12 Sunday
Film Pittsburgh’s JFilm Festival, Pittsburgh’s largest Jewish cultural event, runs May 2-12, both in person and online - so you get the best of both worlds! The festival will showcase 16 engaging and thought-provoking, Jewish-themed, independent feature films from around the world that you won’t see anywhere else. Highlights include opening night’s Pittsburgh premiere of Left Alone Rhapsody: The Musical Memoir of Pianist John Bayless at the newly restored Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland, which will be followed by a Q&A with Bayless and director Stewart Schulman, a John Bayless mini concert, and a dessert reception (special ticket price applies); and the films Remembering Gene Wilder about the great comedic actor; Shari and Lamb Chop about the beloved children’s performer; and The Catskills, a nostalgic look at that region’s much-loved resorts. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit FilmPittsburgh.org or email us at info@filmpittsburgh.org.
Witness for the Prosecutionby Agatha ChristieDirected by Ponny Conomos JahnMay 3 – 12, 2024
Be one of the jurors and experience the shocking testimony and impassioned outbursts from witnesses as a young man and his attorney fight to escape a final verdict.
The mission of Prime Stage is to bring great literature to life through the transformative process of live theatre – to entertain, inform, enrich and inspire audiences with engaging programs that deliver long-lasting benefits to the students, educators, youth, families and theatregoers of our region.
Prime Stage Theatre is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and welcoming to all patrons.With our sensory-inclusive performance the last Saturday of each production at 2:30, we provide a social story with pre-theater preparatory activities for the person with a sensory, social, or learning disability so the person begins to understand and anticipate what might happen at a performing arts experience.
The last Sunday of each performance we offer Audio Description for the blind and visually impaired, along with signed interpreted and real time live caption for patrons who are deaf or have hearing loss.
The theatre facility provides hearing devices for all performances and is wheelchair accessible.
Please identify any special seating needs to our Box Office staff when reserving your tickets in advance on-line or by calling Prime Stage Public Performance Box Office at the New Hazlett 412.320.4610.
May 13 Monday
Live Animal Encounters run daily from 1:30-2 p.m. in the Earth Theater, located in Discovery Basecamp. Led by knowledgeable museum staff, encounters feature 4 live animal ambassadors, a mix of reptiles, mammals, birds, and invertebrates, from all around the world. Learn about the natural history, adaptive behaviors and unique stories of animal ambassadors that call our museum home.
For the safety of animal ambassadors and presenters, no late entries to the show will be permitted.
Monday, May 13, 20246 p.m. – 8 p.m.
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.Pay What Moves You: $0 – $25
Celebrate the world premiere of Mita Ghosal’s new evening-length dance work Lost on a Loom! A long-time KST artist, Ghosal has appeared in the newMoves Dance Festival and Freshworks. Following a community dinner, Ghosal will discuss her new process creating this new work and her practice as an artist in Pittsburgh.
Jazz Poetry 2024 welcomes some of the most incredible talents the Alphabet City stage has ever seen, including Fatimah Asghar, a South-Asian American Muslim writer with National Book Award and Emmy nominations; Deaf poet, storyteller and founder of ASL NYC Jeremy Lee Stone; Sudanese activist and City of Asylum writer-in-residence Rania Mamoun; and celebrated Argentinian poet and novelist Andrés Neuman, traveling all the way from Spain. Setting the tone for this third night of Jazz Poetry is acclaimed violinist Leslie DeShazor, who will make her debut at City of Asylum with an exciting quintet.
Each Jazz Poetry program begins with a 40-minute performance by the band, followed by 30 minutes of collaborative performance with the featured poets. In these collaborations, poets share their work while the musicians interpret and accompany their poetry with jazz, adding a unique, improvisational dimension to each performance.
ASL interpretation will be provided by Heather Gray and Josh Stresing.
Featured Musicians:
May 14 Tuesday
Join us for May's Family Night!
Kids Eat FREE* w/ the purchase of an adult entree!
Plus, we've got CoCo The Clown for the kids with face painting and balloon art!
Don't miss the family fun!
*Limit one Kids Meal per child.
Looking for free live entertainment? Or looking to perform yourself? Starting April 18th, we have an inclusive mic every other Tuesday for all the people and all the arts. Do what you do best! 10 minutes per person of whatever: comedy, music, improv, juggling, scatting, etc. See ya there!
We come together on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month to share wisdom on a multitude of consciousness-raising topics including spirituality, psychology, metaphysics, ecology, quantum science, music, art, holistic health and many more. Please join us!
Particle physicists in the U.S. have gone through a three-year exercise to discuss the future of the field. We have come up with an exciting plan that is meant to address the question "How did we come to be?" In this public lecture, Hitoshi Murayama of the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss essential parts of this question: dark matter, Higgs boson, neutrinos, inflation.
Murayama is a well-known theoretical particle physicist who works broadly, even on cosmology and condensed matter physics.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1991 and has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2000. He is also the founding director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, serving from 2007 to 2018. He received numerous awards and served on many advisory committees around the world. Most recently he chaired the 2023 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) that was charged with developing a 10-year strategic plan for US particle physics.