{"id":264479,"date":"2026-08-13T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264479\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:38:15","slug":"pittsburgh-musical-theater-secures-1-25m-as-part-of-20m-capital-campaign-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264479\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Musical Theater secures $1.25M as part of $20M capital campaign \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Musical Theater, the West End arts institution, has received $1.25 million in new funding as part of its $20 million capital campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The new funding comes from a combination of the Hillman Foundation and the state\u2019s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The arts nonprofit is pursuing funding for a host of upgrades under the name, Elevating the PMT Experience for All, seeking a variety of improvements to improve accessibility, expand common areas and better integrate the facility in the surrounding West End neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pittsburgh Musical Theater\u2019s recent upgrades include installing an elevator in its 111-year-old building, among a range of others to make it fully accessible for the first time in the more than 25 years it\u2019s operated there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/08\/11\/west-end-pittsburgh-musical-theater-renovations.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/08\/11\/west-end-pittsburgh-musical-theater-renovations.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Musical Theater, the West End arts institution, has received $1.25 million in new funding as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50047,111663,111662,73,75,111661,74,89690],"class_list":["post-264479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-capital-campaign","tag-elevating-the-pmt-experience-for-all","tag-hillman-foundation","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-musical-theater","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-redevelopment-assistance-capital-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}