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Today the center is the home of the Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, all of which used to be based at Heinz Hall. The 2,800-seat Benedum Center is a centerpiece of the Pittsburgh Cultural District and is one of the most utilized theaters in the nation today. [citation needed]
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased and refurbished the theater as part of its plan for the Cultural District. In 1995, it was renamed The Harris, using a gift from the Buhl Foundation , in honor of John P. Harris , who was a co-founder of the Nickelodeon—the first theater solely dedicated to the showing of motion pictures—and a ...
The cultural district was the brainchild of H. J. Heinz II (1908–1987), known as Jack Heinz, and is managed by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust was formed in 1984 to realize Jack's vision of an entire cultural district for blocks of the Penn–Liberty Avenue corridor, which then was a blighted area.
PITTSBURGH ― Trans-Siberian Orchestra will make its annual Pittsburgh appearance Dec. 16 at PPG Paints Arena. The Christmas prog-rock spectacle will take place at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Mariah Carey canceled her Pittsburgh concert hours before she was scheduled to perform on Wednesday, Dec. 11.. The "All I Want for Christmas Is You" singer, 55, announced the news on X (formerly ...
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust was founded in 1984 by H. J. Heinz II with the principal aim of restoring downtown Pittsburgh as a vibrant cultural destination. [7] Heinz and others, including William Rea and his son, U.S. Senator John Heinz, began with Pittsburgh's first renovated former movie palace, Heinz Hall, (which was built as the former Loew's Penn Theater).
Here are the details of some of the larger events. Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh RV Show, billed as the longest running indoor RV show in the nation, is Jan. 6-14 in the David L. Lawrence Convention ...
The O'Reilly Theater is a 650-seat theater building, opened on 11 December 1999, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Located at 621 Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District, the O'Reilly Theater is actually a three-part building: The 65,000 square feet (6,000 m 2) theater (with a 150-seat rehearsal hall), a large parking garage called Theater Square, and the adjacent 23,000 square feet ...