It’s cozy by the fireside, with the scent of pine trees seeming to permeate the air, as City Theatre invites us to spend the holiday season with the ever-growing canon of Lauren Gunderson Sisterhoods at Christmastime.
The commissioned adaptation of “Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women” unfolds as if it were a graphic novel come to life, with thought bubbles spoken aloud, alongside dialogue, and Anne Mundell’s set design featuring the tangible metaphor of trees carved from the novel’s pages.
Treasure Treasure will star in City Theatre’s production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” presented in 2026 at the Greer Cabaret, in partnership with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. For Light Up Night on November 22, 10 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., $40 tickets to “Hedwig,” and discounts to other events, can be found at https://culturaldistrict.org/pages/lightup.
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Here’s a glimpse of some of the live theater of the Pittsburgh holiday season, and the 2025 Holiday Market that has moved into the Pittsburgh Cultural District.
“Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women” was put in motion by a mistaken premise. The playwright Lauren Gunderson was asked by a theater leader if he could read her stage version of novel. It was a reasonable assumption, Gunderson said. Except she hadn’t written such a work. At least, not yet. Her adaptation makes its Pittsburgh debut at City Theatre, Nov. 5-Dec. 7, 2025.
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.
With News about CMU Drama , Point Park School of Theatre, Prime Stage, Iron City Circus Arts, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, The Cultural Trust and Stage 62 PITTSBURGH’S TOP THEATRE SCHOOLS PRESENT STUDENT CABARETS AT THE GREER THIS NOVEMBER Two of… Read More ›
With News on Broadway in Pittsburgh & More Maya Drake as Ali in the North American Tour of Hell’s Kitchen, the Broadway musical from Alicia Keys. (Image: Marc J. Franklin) ‘HELL’S KITCHEN’ TOUR COMES TO PITTSBURGH The North American Tour… Read More ›
With news on City Theatre & New Horizon Theatre 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…. Read More ›
Seductive multilingual, multicultural, multimedia “Another Kind of Silence,” now at City Theatre. contains standard plot points from relationship dramas, but the playwright has wrapped the will-they-or-won’t-theys in complexities rarely seen on stage, in a production that pushes the envelope of creativity, to achieve the goal of inclusivity.
