Even if your life is no longer punctuated by the academic year, back-to-school energy creates a fitting reason to explore different ideas and discover new topics. From Friday, Sept. 1, through Thursday, Sept. 14, The Lindsay will offer documentaries bound to expand your thoughts and provoke stimulating conversations. These are no dry classroom films—they're dynamic, template-breaking works that […]
As part of its ongoing Emerging Filmmakers Showcase, The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center will host AbSolved, a 120-minute episodic narrative created and written by local actor and writer David Ogrodowsk and produced by LaTasia Greene, Thursday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. AbSolved, a psychological thriller, follows Father Demetrius, a Catholic priest, as he struggles […]
Nicole Travolta—actor, comedian, impressionist—brings her internationally touring comedy show to The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center on Thursday, Sept. 14, at 7:30 p.m., in an exclusive, one-night engagement. “We are fortunate that some of Nicole’s friends in Western PA convinced her to select The Lindsay for her first performance in Pennsylvania,” explains Carolina Pais-Barreto Thor, […]
The tale starts with a rabbit and pink panther, involves a thief and a cobbler, and the epilogue focuses on a rapper. These characters are central to the works that award-winning filmmaker Kevin Schreck, Visiting Documentary Filmmaker at Robert Morris University, will present on Thursday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. Animating Reality: An Evening with […]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) + the luminous short film Symphonie diagonale (Viking Eggeling, 1923) with live accompaniment by Pittsburgh Composers Quartet. In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge […]
Regular admission is $15 for all seats and all shows. An ALL-FESTIVAL PASS is available for $45. The Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival: Thriller Picture Show is the cinematic celebration of the macabre, the exciting, the bizarre, and the mysterious. Film Screenings In partnership with the George A. Romero Foundation (GARF), the Thriller Picture Show is […]
Tickets on Sale at The Lindsay for TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center has tickets on sale at 8 tonight for the cinematic version of TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR. A Lindsay-style welcome is planned for fans, and details on tailgating and other activities will be added here soon. […]
The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center, in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club, will present a one-time screening of the legendary, Oscar-nominated 1959 film Some Like It Hot on Sunday, Oct. 15, at 1 p.m. The picture follows two musicians, played by Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, who disguise themselves as women after witnessing […]
This scary season, Los Angeles-based director, actor, writer and producer Dean Jacobs will return to his native Pittsburgh for the local premiere of The TRIP, a haunted house/slasher film honoring the legacy of late director George A. Romero as well as the city of Pittsburgh. Featuring local and nationally known actors, the film screens Thursday, […]
The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center will again be the westernmost suburban theater to host the Three Rivers Film Festival, screening five exceptional indie selections. From a uniquely Pittsburgh-esque take on parenting of gender issues to the real lives of modern-day Appalachian pioneers to a mysterious self-help book that promises superhuman abilities, the films promise […]
Preppers, climate doomers, bunker-dwellers … journalist and filmmaker Ben Knight explores the world of people preparing for total social and ecological collapse in the film We’re All Going To Die, screening as part of The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center’s Emerging Filmmakers Showcase. Showcase events, a staple at The Lindsay, are designed to encourage exchanges […]
Picture Proof, a documentary film providing “an intimate look at the bonds that hold one West Virginia family together and the disease that threatens to tear them apart,” will screen as part of The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center’s Emerging Filmmakers Showcase. Showcase events, a staple at The Lindsay, are designed to encourage exchanges between […]
