Bill O'Driscoll
Arts and Culture Reporter at WESA-FM (Pittsburgh, PA)
Pittsburgh-based journalist (arts & culture reporter at 90.5 WESA), reader, music aficionado, tree-hugger, cyclist and fan of imperial stouts. Opinions are mine
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2 days ago |
wvia.org | Bill O'Driscoll
The Kelly Strayhorn Theater opened in 2001 in East Liberty's former Regent Theater. It's been there ever since, a nonprofit focused on artists of color and LGBTQ artists and one of Pittsburgh's go-to venues for dance. But it won't be there too many years longer. The theater's lease expires in late 2029, and co-executive director Joseph Hall said there's no option to extend or to buy. So the Kelly Strayhorn will be on the move. The questions are where and how.
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2 days ago |
wesa.fm | Bill O'Driscoll
Stop by the Millvale Music Festival to hear some great local bands, check out sculptor John Roden's "Determine to Be" exhibit, or grab a bite at the Pittsburgh Pierogi Festival — here's what to do in Pittsburgh this weekend. Visual ArtThe first major retrospective of the work of important 20th-century Black sculptor John Roden has come to the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. The Alabama-born Roden’s life spanned the century and circled the globe.
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2 days ago |
wesa.fm | Bill O'Driscoll
The Kelly Strayhorn Theater opened in 2001 in East Liberty’s former Regent Theater. It’s been there ever since, a nonprofit focused on artists of color and LGBTQ artists and one of Pittsburgh’s go-to venues for dance. But it won’t be there too many years longer. The theater’s lease expires in late 2029, and co-executive director Joseph Hall said there’s no option to extend or to buy. So the Kelly Strayhorn will be on the move. The questions are where and how.
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4 days ago |
wesa.fm | Bill O'Driscoll
One of the fixtures of Pittsburgh’s mid-20th-century art scene was Glen Davis. Born in 1911, Davis grew up in the West End, studied at Pitt and created modernist paintings, sculptures and mobiles that were exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art and elsewhere. For decades, Davis also had a day job, as an accountant for oil tycoon Michael Benedum.
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1 week ago |
wesa.fm | Bill O'Driscoll
This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up here to get it every Wednesday afternoon. After President Donald Trump took office this year, some of his administration’s earliest actions targeted the arts. In early February, Trump began remaking the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his image.
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