With news about: ‘Georgiana & KItty: Christmas at Pemberley’ at City Theatre; Pittsburgh’s 2026 Window Keepers; Anya Martin’s plays in New Anthology.
🎭 ICYMI:
- Preview: Your Guide to the Premiere of ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ at Pittsburgh Playhouse
- Preview: Jacob Ming-Trent Finds a Lifesaver in Shakespeare
- Preview: The Notebook’ Musical Gives Pittsburgh Native a Lift Toward Directing
- Review: Midnight Radio’s ‘Night of the Living Dead N’At’
- Review: Genre Fluid: lys scott’s ‘chronicles of a crazy girl’ at KST
- Review: What We Leave Behind: B Kleymeyer’s “As Others Have Before” at the Peirce Studio
- Review: Becki Toth Hits the Heights as Star of Stage 62’s ‘Gypsy’
- Review: James Ehnes Stuns in Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
‘CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY’ WRAPS TRIOLOGY AT CITY THEATRE
Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, the third and final chapter in the Jane Austen-inspired trilogy by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, spends the 2026 holiday season at City Theatre. After Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Georgiana & Kitty focuses on young women who get somewhat short shrift in Pride and Prejudice: The 2020 play follows the talented pianist Georgiana Darcy and the optimistic Kitty Bennet as they venture into the spotlight. Directed by Bria Walker-Rhoze, the cast features Olivia Leigh Ruhnke (CMU Drama, Class of 2026) as Georgiana and Annalisa D’Aguilar as Kitty Bennet. Familiar faces returning to Pemberley include Gabrielle Kogut as Mary Bennet, Alex Manalo as Jane Bingley, Alex Sheffield as Lydia Wickham, and Juan Rivera Lebron, reprising the role of Fitzwilliam Darcy.
City Theatre’s past productions from the Pemberley series, in 2023 and 2024, represent two of the organization’s most well-attended and highest-grossing box-office successes. This is the fourth consecutive holiday season that City has featured a Gunderson work: for the holiday. Last season’s holiday selection was the world premiere co-commission Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The 2026 production is dedicated to the memory of City Theatre’s longtime board member, Nancy D. Washington, who passed away on October 12, 2026.
🎟️ TICKETS AND DETAILS: Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley is on City Theatre’s Mainstage November 14-December 6, 2026. Tickets: https://www.citytheatrecompany.org.
CALL BOARD SHOUT OUT: 2026 PITTSBURGH WINDOW KEEPERS
Congrats to Marty Ashby, Executive Producer of MCG Jazz; Janis Burley, President, CEO and Artistic Director of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center; Clare Drobot, Artistic Director of City Theatre; and Dr. Ayisha Morgan-Lee, founder of Hill Dance Academy Theatre, on being named among the statewide 2026 Window Keeper through PA Humanities’ The Window Keeper: Civic Honors. “Window Keepers reflect the many ways Pennsylvanians use storytelling, history, culture, education, civic engagement and other tools of the humanities to bring people together and strengthen the places they call home.”
⭐️ For the full list, visit https://pahumanities.org/thewindowkeeper/#window-keeper-map
MENNONITE ANTHOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS ANYA MARTIN PLAYS
Anya Martin’s plays Camino, which premiered in 2011 as Hiawatha Project’s first professional production, and Helen at the Gym (Again) are featured in Acting Up: Anthology of North American Mennonite Plays: Six volumes of 51 scripts (1970-2025) released by Gelassenheit Publications through online booksellers in October. Pittsburgh-based playwright Martin’s plays are a part of Volume 5. Camino, set in an imagined future, was developed over the course of four years, including over 12 hours of interview footage with recent immigrants to Pittsburgh. Helen at the Gym (Again) was a winner in the 2018 Red Bull 8th Annual Short New Play Festival. “Having my work included in this collection has really been a profound and vulnerable ‘career meets personal history moment’ for me,” Martin said. “My essay “Examining the Mennonite DNA in my plays ‘Camino’ and ‘Helen at the Gym (Again)’ … explores my identity as a playwright around these themes.”
📚Learn more at https://www.gelassenheitpub.com/acting-up and www.AnyaMartinPlays.com.
A VERY MERRY WEEK FOR PERFORMING ARTS OPENINGS
- The Notebook | PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh | Benedum Center | November 10 – 15, 2026 (Premiere) | https://trustarts.org/pct_home/events/series/pnc-broadway-in-pittsburgh/broadway-shows
- How Shakespeare Saved My Life | Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh | O’Reilly Theater | November 11 – 22, 2026 | https://culturaldistrict.org/production/109534/list_performances
- Jagged Little Pill | CMU Drama | Helen Wayne Rauh Studio Theater | November 12 – 21, 2026 | https://www.drama.cmu.edu
- Little Shop of Horrors | Paragon Theatre | November 12 – 21, 2026 | https://www.ParagonTheatre.net
- A Whisper to a Scream: Four Tales of Terror | The Haunted Theatre Company | Margaret Partee Performing Arts Center | November 12 – 21, 2026 | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-whisper-to-a-scream-four-tales-of-terror-tickets-2001386038517
- Texture Choreography Project | Texture Contemporary Ballet | November 13 – 14, 2026 | http://www.textureballet.org/rediscover.html
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun The Musical! World Premiere | Pittsburgh Playhouse | Playhouse Signature series | November 13 – 22, 2026 | https://playhouse.pointpark.edu
- Hundred Days | University of Pittsburgh – Pitt Stages | November 13 – 20, 2026 | https://www.play.pitt.edu/current-season/mainstage
- Miracle on 34th Street The Musical | Strand Theater | November 13 – 22, 2026 http://thestrandtheater.org/events
- Natural Woman: Sheléa Sings Aretha Franklin | Pittsburgh Symphony POPS | Heinz Hall | November 13 to 15, 2026 | https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/calendar
- Calliope Presents Meredith Moon | Calliope House | New Hazlett Theater | November 14, 2026 | https://calliopehouse.org/event/meredith-moon-3
- Orpheus & Eurydice | Pittsburgh Opera | Byham Theater | November 14 – 22, 2026 | https://www.pittsburghopera.org/season
- Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley | City Theatre | Main Stage November 14 – December 6, 2026 | https://citytheatrecompany.org
- Gerald Albright | MCG Jazz | Saturday, November 14, 2026 | https://www.mcgjazz.org
- Once Upon A Melody | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Fiddlesticks | Heinz Hall | November 14, 2026 | https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/calendar
🎟️ Reminder: The discount ticket initiative Go See a Show! is ongoing, with 18 performing arts companies and Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama participating. Find tickets at https://www.goseeashowpgh.com.
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