Constructed in 1961, for use by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera ( CLO ), under the brainchild of an area department-store magnate, the Civic Arena hosted numerous concerts, the circus, political and religious rallies, roller derbies as well as contests in hockey, basketball, fish tournament weigh-ins, pro tennis ( Pittsburgh Triangles of the WTT ) in the mid-1970s, boxing, wrestling, lacrosse, football, ice skating championships, kennel shows, and soccer.

The UK stage musical adaptation, also known as Barry Manilow's Copacabana: A New Musical Comedy, had its American premiere at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera ( Pittsburgh CLO ) in 2000 followed by a run as part of the Dallas Summer Musical season.

In May 2009, Bean starred as the Narrator in the Pittsburgh CLO production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and following her run in Pittsburgh, she performed at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles to kick off L. A .' s Gay Pride weekend.

* Joseph Serafini, 2009 Pittsburgh CLO

The show has been to Boston and Manhattan, will in time reach Pittsburgh and Minneapolis.

* 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last " Big Tent " show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a Tibetan and an Indian restaurant may both be thought of as " ethnic restaurants ," but a French restaurant will be simply " French.

* July 16 – With the closing of its " Big Tent " show in Pittsburgh, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announces all subsequent circuses will be " arena shows " due to changing economics.

Pitt – Johnstown, a branch campus of the University of Pittsburgh, will become the PSAC's first member from the Commonwealth System of Higher Education.

Convenient to Pittsburgh along the Ohio River Boulevard and just across the Ohio River from the Pittsburgh Airport, Ambridge leaders hope it will benefit by its location and low cost of living.

According to a Monday, March 15, 2012 online Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article by Eric Schwartzel ,: " Shell Oil Co. announced it will build a massive petrochemical " cracker " plant in Potter, Beaver County, making Pennsylvania the winner in a tri-state competition for the billion-dollar operation.

The outlet center, which is slated to hold over 150 stores, will be similar in composition to the Grove City Outlets, located north of Pittsburgh, but will be slightly larger than that development.

In 2013, following the breakup of the WVIAC, along with the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, who's also from that conference, they will join the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference ( PSAC ).

He told the Pittsburgh Courier, " One afternoon when the team trots out on the field, a Negro player will be out there with it.

* Fans of the National Football League will note the Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins, and Green Bay Packers as having gold as a color.

Amid fears that the Coyotes franchise will not right its ship by February 2011, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, and Ottawa rose as candidates for the 2011 game.

" Writing in an opinion piece, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist Dimitri Vassilaros asserted that the term was intended by Cooper as tongue-in-cheek to mock those who think guns have free will.

As described by the Pittsburgh Dish, the name " Hoi Polloi " may be chosen to indicate that the brand or service will appeal to the " common people ".

Frick left a will in which he bequeathed of undeveloped land to the City of Pittsburgh for use as a public park, together with a $ 2 million trust fund to assist with the maintenance of the park.

Castlebrook Development ( formerly known as Wynco ), a real estate development group located in Pittsburgh, is expected to partner with a national hotel chain under whose flag the hotel will operate.

From Confluence, it connects to Washington, D. C., and will soon connect from Homestead to Pittsburgh.

The FOP official history states that the founders decided to not use the term " union " because of " the anti-union sentiment of the time ," but nevertheless acted as a union, telling Pittsburgh mayor Joseph G. Armstrong that the FOP would " bring our aggrievances before the Mayor or Council and have many things adjusted that we are unable to present in any other way ... we could get many things through our legislature that our Council will not, or cannot give us.

At the team's 1992 victory celebration at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Bowman's first remark was that " the coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins will always be – Bob Johnson ".

E. Burke Fisher, a journalist in Pittsburgh, wrote that " Willis is a kind of national pet and we must regard his faults as we do those of a spoiled stripling, in the hope that he will amend ".

Although it will be a soccer-specific stadium, other sporting and non-sporting events will be held at the stadium, including the home games of the Pittsburgh Passion.

In 1931, he was approached by the Rodef Shalom synagogue in Pittsburgh to teach dance, and to stage the annual Kermess.

* 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

* Judith O ' Dea as Barbra: Judith O ' Dea, a 23-year-old commercial and stage actress, had once worked for Hardman and Eastman in Pittsburgh.

The facility currently features two restaurants and a local stage theater, and plans are in progress to turn the complex into New Castle's version of Station Square in Pittsburgh.

The “ Concord Coaches ” stage coach line ran through the Meadow Lands on the Pittsburgh and Washington line, whose function was later replaced by Chartiers Valley Railway also located in the Township.

* A touring stage musical, Doctor Dolittle The Musical, which was built in Owensboro, Kentucky and opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in summer 2005.

Although these achieved popularity, Herbert did not produce any more stage works for several years, focusing on his work with the Pittsburgh Symphony until 1904.

In 1912, she married her fourth husband, Alexander Pollock Moore, owner of the Pittsburgh Leader, and mostly retired from the stage.

Born in Pittsburgh on November 10, 1867, he was the publisher / owner of the Pittsburgh Leader when he married the stage actress Lillian Russell, becoming her fourth husband.

* July 21 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland the day before.

The Denver Center Theatre Company also produced the play in April 2009, and was the first theatre company to stage all ten plays of " The Pittsburgh Cycle " under one director, Israel Hicks.

Notably, also in 1848, he shared the stage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with Stephen C. Foster.

A new production by Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA, with musical direction by Andres Cladera, stage direction by Karla Boos, and bandoneonist Ben Bogart opened 24 March, 2011.

At the 2001 Club in Pittsburgh, a table full of black fans kept coming to the stage and teasing: " Are you white boys gonna play some funky music?

Grand Buffet is a hip-hop funk duo from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, made up of Jackson O ' Connell-Barlow ( stage names: Iguanadon, Grape-a-Don, Plaps, Nate Kukla, and Mr. Pennsylvania ) and Jarrod Weeks ( stage names: M-Dog, Lord Grunge, Viceroy, Matt Kukla, Fred Durts ).

* Israel Hicks ( 1943-2010 ), stage director who presented August Wilson's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle.

Esteban ( born 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) is the stage name of guitarist Stephen Paul.