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CITY THEATRE’S YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
City Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival is in its 26th year of staging professional productions of five one-act plays, chosen from nearly 400 Young Playwrights Contest submissions.
The winning plays and playwrights in middle school are: Echoes of Birthday Laughter by Mary Joyce (8th grade, Belle Vernon Middle School) and Bolts and Apologies by Hayden Carr, AJ Montenaro and Oliver Rent (7th grade, Keystone Oaks Middle School).
The winning plays and playwrights in high school are: Chaos and Reason by Tiana Ellis (12th grade, Washington High School); and Rest Their Souls by Basil Lee (12th grade, Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12); and The Train of Memory by Isabella Blick (12th grade, Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12).
Presented by Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation, the 2025 Young Playwrights Festival is October 25 (high school performances at 1 p.m.; middle school performances at 6 p.m.) and October 26 (middle school performances at 1 p.m.; high school at 6 p.m.), in City’s Lillie Theatre. For tickets, visit https://citytheatrecompany.org/production/103630/list_performances or call 412-431-2489.
‘GET READY’ FOR NEW HORIZON MUSICAL DRAMEDY
New Horizon Theater is back Downtown with the “feel-good musical dramedy” Get Ready: A Musical Dramedy in Two Acts, Set to The Key of Life. The show explores the joys and pains that many African-American musicians grappled with when music shifted from 1950s doo-wop into what would become mainstream pop and rhythms and blues. Get Ready is written by Jaye T. Stewart and Joe Plummer; with music composed by Plummer, and lyrics by Plummer and Jaye and Debi Stewart. Plummer also is director and choreographer of the musical about the Doves, a group well past their heyday as they prepare for a comeback, in hopes of recapturing the bliss of days gone by.
The New Horizon production runs October 30-November 9, 2025, at the Helen Wayne Rauh Rehearsal Hall, O’Reilly Theater, Downtown. For tickets, visit https://ppt.org/production/103806/get-ready-a-musical-dramedy-in-two-acts-set-to-the-key-of-life.
👉 Don’t forget—you can always explore the next two months of performances, organized by date or company, anytime at onStage Pittsburgh.
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