Events

Enjoy an evening of beer appreciation and education hosted by Beverage Director, Mary Louise Stoughton. Each tasting features eight craft beers from around the country or around the world and a selection of light hors d'oeuvres prepared by Executive Chef Susan Kroft. We are sure to please your palate and expand your beer knowledge. We look forward to seeing you there!

Every show is unique! Live shows dazzle audiences with brilliant colors and rockin' music in the Buhl Digital Dome. Based on audience requests, our laserists choreograph sight-and-sound spectacles of full-dome proportions! Shows and schedules change quarterly. For schedule details and complete show listings, visit our website or call (412) 237-3400 for more information.

Lessons go from 9pm-10pm. 10pm starts the open salsa session; what a great way to begin your weekend!

An exhibition of four, original, interactive artworks that are “tough” enough to withstand kid handling. Play with a giant kaleidoscope, activate a sculpture with your voice and more! This exhibit is supported by a grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.

Part P-Funk, part Punjabi-Funk, BlackMahal is a San Francisco-based live music experience complete with drums, DJs, horns, hip-hop MCs, and the godfather of Punjabi-American music – Ustad Lal Singh Bhatti. BlackMahal is steeped in Old California, a Punjabi-American experience that started in the 1890s when the first Punjabi-Americans settled in the Great West and forged a new identity combining elements of Mexican and African-American influence. BlackMahal also represents the new Californi... More Details

Come by plane, train or automobile to the sixth annual Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh celebration, presented by UPMC and UPMC Health Plan and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Partners Program. Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh is your passport to the complete summer Gallery Crawl experience. Collect passport stamps at Crawl locations and then join us for the spectacular all-inclusive main event compete with dancing, live entertainment, activities, drinks and delicacies! Everything you need for a dazzling evening ta... More Details

The Cultural District’s biggest summer celebration following the Gallery Crawl allows guests to enjoy delectable cocktails and tasty bites from local restaurants, live music and entertainment while mingling with the city’s chicest guests.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s popular, free arts and entertainment showcase takes place at various galleries and art spaces in the Cultural District.

33 Arts Venues. Cutting-edge Visual Arts. Live Music. Dance. DJs. and more!

Take a step back to yesteryear during our Antique & Classic Car Show and Parade Days. Classic and antique vehicles will be on display throughout the day (Parking Area C) and then cruise through the park during the nightly car parade at 6:00pm. For more information, call 724-238-3666 or email Jeff Croushore at Jeff@Idlewild.com.

Come celebrate Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe at Idlewild & SoakZone July 9th – July 13th. Meet and greet your favorite neighbors, including Mr. McFeely, Mayor Maggie, Neighbor Aber, and Purple Panda, straight from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe. All neighbors appearing from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. near the entrance to Mister Roger's Neighborhood attraction.

Team PHenomenal Hope is joining forces with Pittsburgh's Premier Indoor Cycling Production company, Global Rides/Cycling Fusion... and you're invited to "ride with the team" during the launch of the Spain Series DVD. Tom Scotto, USA Elite Coach, founder of Stage5 Cycling team is guest instructor. ***ALL PROCEEDS GO TO TEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE and benefit the PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION*** To participate from home or a participating club: $15, Sign up here: http://clients.mindbodyonl... More Details

Our annual automotive celebration launches our Race Week. This year's black tie soiree will be at the historic Oakmont Country Club. Visit pvgp.org/gala to purchase tickets at $250 each.

Ride the tidal wave of fun during PPG Festival of Water at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. Scuba dive in a 25,000 gallon pool with the DEMA BE a Diver Tour.

Find 70 local artists lining 27th street in the SouthSide Works selling handmade wares as the I Made It! Market sets up for three days of art, shopping, live entertainment, food and fun. Starting the evening of Friday, July 13th and lasting until Sunday, July 15th, shop from Pittsburgh's talented artisans, find treasures among the SouthSide Works' sidewalk sales and enjoy bands and other live performers. Kids can cool off in the fountain, have their faces painted and more. To learn more about th... More Details

Gallery opening June 29, from 6-9 PM Gallery opening will feature beer and hard cider courtesy of Straub Beer and Woodchuck Cider, free to the public Michael Benedetti presents you with an offering of two-dimensional visual stimulation involving the relationship between man and machine, comic books, and geometry. This one-man show is a documentation of the evolution of very specific imagery that has been oozing out of the mind of a twenty-something hermit, who has spent the past two years huddle... More Details

It really is paradise - Cheeseburgers optional!  Tom Watt has been dazzling music fans up and down the east coast, from Key West, throughout Florida and up to the Carolinas for almost a decade!  A true Jimmy double (in both looks and voice), he has regularly performed more than 1200 shows with his own unique tribute, including several talented musicians and a repertoire of songs that are sure to satisfy Landsharks everywhere.  Experience a special extended three hour "Buffett... More Details

“MAMA” KADIATOU CONTE-FORTE: KIRIDI (THE ORPHAN) - A CINDERELLA STORY Presented by Kelly Strayhorn Theater Friday, July 13 | 11 AM & 7 PM Saturday, July 14 | 11 AM Set in a traditional Guinean village, "Mama" Kadiatou weaves the Cinderella-Like fairytale of a young woman who is forbidden to dance and pursue the man she loves by her jealous stepmother and stepsisters. The rich percussive rhythms of the native Sossou, Malinke, and Toma set the tone for a powerful ensemble... More Details

For adult music lovers of all ages, Mozart Camp provides five days of music, workshops, and lectures in an adventure with Amadeus. Two gourmet dinners at the Fox Chapel Golf Club include an evening with the company’s founder Mildred Miller. Participants will attend four Mozart in Concert recitals and other exclusive performances of rarely-performed works, in addition to the closing performance of The Magic Flute on July 14.

Realizing they are married to the wrong people, Beth and David begin having an affair. The story that follows is a searing portrait of the yearning to feel loved and the heartache and consequences that infidelity brings. AUDIENCE MEMBERS 18+ The Pittsburgh premiere of this emotionally raw and complex work by Craig Wright (Six Feet Under, Mistakes Were Made, Recent Tragic Events) will be directed by The Hypocrites company member and A Red Orchid Theatre Artistic Associate Steven Wilson. Featuring... More Details

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...Henri Matisse’s The Thousand and One Nights, is a large, multi-panel, painted paper cut-out. It is a visitor favorite, but due to its fragile nature, it is only on view for a limited period of time -- from April 7 - July 15, 2012. The One Thousand and One Nights was created in 1950, when the artist was 81 and confined to his bed. Unable to sleep and kept alive by his drive to create, Matisse had much in common with Scheherazade, the legendary narrator of the Arab... More Details

For its next act, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh reinvents itself in its 35th year with SummerFest, a three-week celebration of the performing and visual arts for all ages. This new regional summer music festival fills three weeks with opera sung in English, concerts, recitals, cabaret, visual arts, and the SummerFest Fringe, June 29 –July 15, 2012. The festival takes place in the intimate theaters of The Hillman Center for Performing Arts on the idyllic grounds of Shady Side Academy, just 10... More Details

Muscle car excitement with vintage and historic racing at Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Beaver Falls (formerly BeaveRun). $15 per day or $25 per person for weekend at the gate - no advance ticket sales. You can be part of the action, put your car on the track Saturday night with the Flashlight Drags and race on the Karting Track, open all weekend with proceeds benefiting the PVGP.

PRESENTS FOR PATIENTS® and First National Bank of Pennsylvania will usher in the holiday season with “Christmas in July,” a gift drive for the 2012 campaign. Sixty-nine of First National Bank's branch locations in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Westmoreland counties will enable the community to have easy access to a gift drop box from July 2nd through July 16th. Gifts collected will be distributed by volunteers to Western Pennsylvania nursing home patients this coming holiday seas... More Details

Bob Fosse’s musical masterpiece of murder and mayhem has wowed audiences around the world. Millions have witnessed this landmark musical that rewrote Broadway history and the Kean Theatre is proud to be the first local theatre to present this historic production. Kander and Ebb’s brilliant musical has toured around the world multiple times and its 15 year run on Broadway is legendary. Spend the night with Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly and see why this is the greatest musical of all time... More Details