Events

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.

Adult Caribbean Night is a new & exciting event in the Downtown Pittsburgh area. It will cater to all those that enjoy the sounds of the Caribbean. This event will offer EVERY type of Caribbean music enjoyed. From Roots Rock Reggae, Calypso, SOCA, Dancehall, DUB, and Rare Grooves - we have something for everyone. This night is for the Mature & Secure crowd. Guaranteed to bring out the Islander in you! The atmosphere at the Mélange Bistro Bar + Incredible Music & Friends = A Gr... More Details

Pittsburgh's biggest weekly swing dance happens every Saturday night at Bobby D's Swing City! No partner needed! Just bring yourself and after our beginner lesson we'll have you dancing all night long! Beginner Dance Lesson starts at 8:00 P.M. Dance is from 9:00 PM-Midnight. Cover: $11.00 (includes lesson) Safe Area in Squirrel Hill ~ Great Atmosphere ~ No Smoking ~ All Ages

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.

Old Economy Village in Ambridge, Pa. is hosting an Antique Car Show and Old Fashioned Small Town Celebration on July 7 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Join us for entertainment, children's activities, antique cars and food. IT'S FREE!!

The glass is always half full for Candide in this story of ultimate optimism! Travel the globe with our unlikely hero, as he confronts doom, death, and destruction at every turn. And yet Candide finds a happy ending to make his garden grow in this "best of all possible worlds"! Additional performances: Friday, July 15 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, July 15 at 2 pm.

Shadow Lounge will be the scene for an exciting and unique local music event called CROSSPOLYNATION: Pittsburgh Mash-Up Music Festival. The event will pair some of Pittsburgh’s best live bands with some of the hottest MC’s and DJ’s in town. Each pairing of artists will be collaborating on three song sets, “mashing up” each other’s music. Inspired by the Beautiful Noise events formerly hosted at Brillobox which combined bands with spoken word artists for improv... More Details

Join Edible Allegheny during the E.A.T Farmers Market Series this summer! Our next stop is Freedom Farms in Butler! Sponsored by Giant Eagle Market District

July 1st through July 7th, stars are shining all week at Idlewild's "Showcase of Stars". The best of the area's talented young performers combine to present a variety of musical revues on the Hillside Theater Stage. To schedule your dance school call the Group Sales Office at 724-238-6784. For further information, call Jeff@Idlewild.com.

Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on Polish Hill will hold its Parish Festival on Saturday, July 7th, from 1 - 11 PM at 3058 Brereton Street. Bake sale, ethnic food, raffles, bingo, sale of Polish items and games are featured. Polka Mass with Ray Jay and The Carousels at 4PM Polka dancing outdors after Mass. More info - 412-621-5170.

Listen to local musicians from 2-3 pm at our acoustic sound stage, sponsored by Sonic, throughout the run of our rockin’ GUITAR exhibit, in cooperation with WDVE and WYEP. Bill Deasy, formerly of The Gathering Field will be the performance of the day.

"Stars at Riverview" brings Pittsburgh's premier jazz to Riverview Park on Saturday evenings! So bring a lawn chair or spread a blanket on Observatory Hill for an entire summer of free, incredible musical entertainment. After the concerts, stay for Dollar Bank Cinema in the Park, movies the entire family can enjoy. Inclement weather may cause concert cancellations. In the event of a cancellation, a message will play on the concert hotline 412-255-2493. Sponsored by BNY Mellon and ARAD.

Taking a Swing at Cancer Golf Tournament benefits Ryan Wojton, a 20 year old who is currently battling testicular cancer. A portion of event proceeds will go towards medical expenses. Ryan also would like to donate a portion of proceeds to the organizations that have helped him and his family through this difficult time. Tickets are $100 per golfer and include 18 holes, cart rental, beer, lunch, and dinner. Please join us for a day of fun!!

Wünderstudies presents a completely improvised musical theater show based on your suggestion of title. $5 cash admission at Steel City Improv Theater (http://steelcityimprov.com/). If you can't make it to this show, plan on coming the following month, August 4. We will perform on the first Saturday of every month at 8pm. For more information about Wünderstudies, check out our website at http://wunderstudies.com/ or our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/wunderstudies. Wünderstud... More Details

The Pittsburgh Pirates take on the San Francisco Giants this weekend series that includes a FanJam by Daughtry on Saturday, July 7.

Experience the heart of the American spirit with melodies and song from various American artists like John Fogerty, Garth Brooks, and John Cougar Mellencamp. The cost per show is $2 members/ $8 non-members. Visit CarnegieScienceCenter.org for showtimes.

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

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

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

The Pittsburgh Society of Artists Guild (PSA) presents an exhibit at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA) titled “Tone It UP”. This exhibit, juried by Greg Harrison opens to the public with a reception at PCA on Friday May 11, 2012 from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. In light of the recent heated political discourse and violence like the shootings in Arizona this past year and the Occupy Movement, government and media have suggested that we the public need to "Tone it DOWN." In response ... More Details

Enter your rescued pet's photo in Castaway Critters' 4th Annual Pet Photo Contest! Winners will be featured in our 2013 calendar. (All photos submitted for this fundraiser will be in the calendar.) Photos can be submitted from anywhere! All rescued pets welcome! Information can be found at www.castawaycritters.org Castaway Critters is a no-kill foster home rescue and spay/neuter charity located in Central Pa. Since 2001, over 7000 cats and dogs have been adopted into loving homes. Thank you for ... More Details

US Golf Camps conducts the Ultimate Junior Golf Camp Experience for boys & girls 9-18 years old. Each summer, campers come to Western Pennsylvania from 45 states & 30 countries to attend our program.

Impressionism in a New Light: From Monet to Stieglitz, on view at Carnegie Museum of Art May 12–August 26, 2012, presents a robust picture of what Impressionism means in art, displaying paintings, drawings, prints, and pastels by major artists alongside works by many of the most famous Pictorialist photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Carnegie Muesum of Art hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-5pm. Thursday: 10am-8pm. Sunday: 12pm-5pm.