{"id":114316,"date":"2026-02-15T01:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:06:06","slug":"prime-stage-theatres-perseverance-now-streaming-on-pbs-wqed-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114316\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Stage Theatre\u2019s PERSEVERANCE Now Streaming on PBS’ WQED-TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\ud83c\udfad NEW! Pittsburgh Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n

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Prime Stage Theatre’s Holocaust-themed play Perseverance<\/a> is now available for streaming on WQED+ channel.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfad NEW! Pittsburgh Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n

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Perseverance dramatizes the powerful 2019 memoir by author Lee Goldman Kikel chronicling her father Melvin Goldman’s postwar journey of healing and renewal in Pittsburgh during the 1950s and ’60s.<\/p>\n

Adapted by playwright L.E. McCullough and directed by Art DeConciliis, Perseverance<\/a> debuted at New Hazlett Theater in 2023.<\/p>\n

The 70-minute video streaming on WQED+ captures the world premiere show and features standout performances by Amanda Anne Leight, Anne Rematt, Matthew J. Rush, Johnny Terreri and, in the role of Melvin Goldman, David Nackman.<\/p>\n

Perseverance is accessible on WQED+ here: https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/perseverance-gxqi9w\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in the day, says McCullough, you might have casually passed Melvin Goldman on the street in Squirrel Hill or visited his jewelry shop above National Record Mart at Darlington & Murray.<\/p>\n

“Chatting with him, you wouldn’t have guessed he’d spent his teens enduring the horrors of Auschwitz before arriving in Pittsburgh as a refugee determined to reclaim his stolen life.”<\/p>\n

As part of its annual anti-genocide programming partnership with Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, Prime Stage Theatre received a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts grant to produce this uniquely Pittsburgh story.<\/p>\n

“Perseverance depicts Melvin Goldman’s irrepressible spirituality and unflagging love for humanity as he worked to replace darkness with light, one piece of handcrafted jewelry at a time,” said\u00a0Prime Stage Theatre<\/a> artistic director Wayne Brinda. “It’s a Holocaust story that holds out hope with the history.”<\/p>\n

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