Backstage/Onstage November 2024 Community Features

Performance Dates

November 21, 2024 5:00 PM

Location

PNC Theatre

350 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
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Jim Roddey Circuit
With Brandon McGinley (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) & Joe Mistick (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
Host: Andy Conte, Director of Center for Media Innovation

Jim Roddey served as Allegheny County’s first chief executive as a Republican in a predominantly Democratic area, and he succeeded by reaching across the aisle, maintaining civility and smiling even when it wasn’t easy. Roddey died in March 2024 at age 91. His good friend and television co-host Joe Mistick, a Democrat, joins Brandon McGinley, a conservative editorial writer at the Post-Gazette and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Together, they will address the contentious 2024 election and its lasting impact on southwestern Pennsylvania.

Andrew Conte

Andrew Conte comes to Point Park University from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where he was an award-winning investigative journalist. Since 2005, he has been a part-time professor and director of the Point Park News Service. In May 2016, Conte was named the director of the University's Center for Media Innovation. 

About Backstage/Onstage

This new series is co-produced and hosted by media innovator Andy Conte, and entertainment expert Ed Traversari. Backstage/Onstage invites Playhouse patrons behind the curtain into intimate and unique conversations with Pittsburgh’s thought leaders across various industries.

Be sure to save the date for the upcoming events in this series

• DECEMBER 12, 2024​
• JANUARY 23, 2025​
• FEBRUARY 6, 2025​​
• MARCH 6, 2025 ​
• APRIL 17, 2025