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Return of City Theatre’s Momentum Festival Will Feature Joe Grushecky Musical, CMU Collaboration

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City Theatre is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for  New Work Development to bring back the Momentum Festival, a public reading series and laboratory for  playwrights to workshop new scripts with directors, dramaturgs and actors. 

Presentations of four works in different stages of development and a“new works slam!” celebrating local playwrights will take place December 13 and 14, 2025 at venues on City Theatre’s South Side campus and Downtown. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended. 

Momentum will feature a Mainstage presentation of “East Carson Street,” a musical by Joe Grushecky, including two songs co-written with Bruce Springsteen.

The Drowsy Chaperone

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CMU Drama’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone is a high-energy fun-filled spoof of American musicals from the 1920s. It was created initially as a performance piece in 1997 for the stag party of two actual Canadian actors, Bob Martin and… Read More ›

Love’s Labor’s Won

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Directors and theatre companies have been adapting and tweaking the works of William Shakespeare for centuries. Alterations run the gamut from changing the setting and characters genders to modernizing the language. Sometimes the core story has morphed, for example, Romeo… Read More ›

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