| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Type | Outdoor amphitheatre |
| Opened | 1989 |
| Closed | 2007 |
| Owner | Pittsburgh Tribune Review |
| Former name(s) | Melody Amphitheatre, IC Light Amphitheatre, Chevrolet Amphitheatre |
| Capacity | 5000 |
The Trib Total Media Amphitheatre at Station Square is an outdoor music pavilion at Station Square in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The venue has a seating capacity of 5,000 people. In January 2007 it was announced that the amphitheatre would be changing its name to The Amphitheatre at Sandcastle and moving to West Homestead, Pennsylvania.[1] The amphitheater was not opened for 2007, and there were tentative plans for opening in spring 2008.
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In 1989, DiCesare-Engler Productions announced that they had partnered with the owners of the Station Square Festival Tent to open the Melody Amphitheatre at Station Square. The site hosted acts such as The Judds, Kenny G, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as various ethnic festivals.[2] The venue became known as the IC Light Amphitheatre in the early 1990s.
IC Light Amphitheater hosted as many as 200,000[3] people per summer for events such as concerts, weekend festivals, and the yearly Fright Fest designed by Tom Savini[4] The amphitheater briefly moved to Pittsburgh's South Side in 1994, but was relocated to its original location in 1995 when DiCesare-Engler invested $400,000 to build a more permanent structure and increased the seating capacity from 4,000 to 5,000.[5] In 1999 DiCesare-Engler renovated the amphitheater again, changing the direction of the stage to face west and adding a roof to cover as many as 4,000 seats.[6]
The venue went through another name change in 2003, when it became the Chevrolet Amphitheatre at Station Square.[7] Its last season as the Chevrolet Amphitheater was 2006.[8] Forest City Enterprises did not extend the lease for the amphitheater. The company was preparing for possible redevelopment of the site. Live Nation made tentative plans to move the amphitheater to West Homestead, but the plans were postponed. The lot remained vacant until 2009.[9][10]
On May 25, 2009, Brian Drusky, a former DiCesare-Engler employee who was laid off by Live Nation in 2005[11], promoted the first concert at the new amphitheatre.[12] The new venue seats up to 6000.