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Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

A visit to Pittsburgh would not be complete without a trip to its historic Cultural District. Located in the heart of Downtown Pittsburgh, the Cultural District is within walking distance from the city's best hotels, restaurants, shops, and public parks. Among the options of art and live entertainment — classical and contemporary music, ballet, modern dance, visual art, opera, musical theater, and drama — you are sure to find something new and exciting to do year round in the Cultural District.

Attack Theater   

See a Show in a local theater on Penn Avenue  Attack Theatre has been making personal, accessible and collaborative dance-based performances with "ninja-like intensity" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review) for more than a decade. They combine modern dance, original live music, multimedia and interdisciplinary art forms to present work in traditional and nontraditional spaces throughout the United States and around the world.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra   

Enjoy the sounds of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall. The PSO prides itself in artistic excellence, a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians, a strong commitment to the Pittsburgh region, and the cultivation of its family of constituents and households.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust  

A nonprofit organization created to stimulate the economic and cultural development of Pittsburgh through the development and promotion of a downtown arts and entertainment district. The Trust encourages and presents diverse performing and visual arts programs in the Cultural District.

       



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Pittsburgh Arts Tickets  

A program of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and your source for lively, innovative and highly creative performances and programs in Pittsburgh’s arts and cultural scene. ProArtsTickets provides convenient, secure and easy access to many of the best and brightest artists and arts organizations in the area encompassing venues from the North Shore to Penn Avenue to the South Side, as well as suburban locations

The Sprout Fund  

The Sprout Fund, a project of The Tides Center (PA), is a nonprofit organization supporting innovative ideas and grassroots community projects that are catalyzing change in Pittsburgh. Sprout works to foster and nurture community-driven solutions toward the common vision of a region that is thriving, progressive, and culturally diverse-a region which can better attract and retain its young talent.

The Carnegie library

For more than 110 years, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has fulfilled Andrew Carnegie’s vision of advancing knowledge and understanding. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh inspire the citizens of our region respect and responsibility for life-long learning, citizenship, and civic participation.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council 

The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council makes the arts central to the lives of individuals by expanding the reach, influence and effectiveness of the region's diverse cultural community. Tye council accomplishes our this by offering programs and services, advocating for the arts, facilitating connections and promoting self-sufficiency and artistic endeavors.



Pittsburgh Children's Theatre 

Pittsburgh International Children's Theater sponsors, presents, promotes, and premieres international, national, and regional performing arts and visual arts programming of professional quality for the cultural enrichment and education of children and families.

Gemini Children's Theatre  

The Gemini Theater produces original, interactive musical children's performances which focus on artistic, cultural and educational themes.

Western Pennsylvania Conservatory  

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has been enriching your relationship with the natural world since 1932 by conserving water, land and life, protecting the region’s natural places of exceptional value, founding six state parks, preserving Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece Fallingwater, planting and maintaining 140 gardens in 19 counties and partnering with grassroots organizations in Pennsylvania.

Byham Theater

Originally built in 1903 as the Gayety Theater, the Byham Theater opened on Halloween night, 1904. It ran for many years as one of the country's foremost stage and vaudeville houses, with appearances from such stars as Ethel Barymore, Gertrude Lawrence and Helen Hayes.

      



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The O'Reilly Theater 

Sitting on the former site of the Lyceum Theater, one of the city's many vaudeville houses demolished after the 1936 St. Patrick's Day flood, the O'Reilly is the fourth theater project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the fifth Cultural District theater. The O'Reilly is the Trust's only newly constructed theater and was created with two purposes: to create a downtown home for Public Theater and to create additional venues for theater, music and other performances.

The Benedum Center

Formerly known as the Stanley Theater, The Benedum Center was billed as "Pittsburgh's Palace of Amusement." In attendance on opening night were Governor John S. Fisher, Mayor Charles H. Kline and Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount Studios. Regular admission cost 65 cents - 25 cents if you came before noon - and performances provided a welcome lift of spirits during the Great Depression. 

Art all Night 

Art All Night Lawrenceville is one of Pittsburgh's most popular-and populist-arts events. Art All Night Lawrenceville debuted in 1998, with some 101 pieces of art and 200 all-night art lovers, and has gained a cult-like following over the years.



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