Due to the winter storm expected to blanket the Pittsburgh area on Sunday, January 25, 2026, cancellation and postponements of performances are inevitable. Ticket-holders, stay safe, and keep checking back with box-offices websites and by phone.
City Theatre
Exploration of ‘Malcolm X & Redd Foxx’ Real-Life Friendship Rolls into City Theatre
The kickoff to 2026 is a third straight new play co-production, with the unwieldy but descriptive title Malcolm X & Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem. The two-hander comes to Pittsburgh via TheatreSquared of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and moves on to Virginia and Dallas from here.
What Clicked in 2025: onStage Pittsburgh’s Most Read Stories of the Year
onStage Pittsburgh presents the top 15 local theater stories that captured readers’ imaginations in 2025. Festivals and activities roundups were big draws, along with exits and entrances, legacy prospects, and bold, new experiences. A few late-in-the-year stories continue to have… Read More ›
onStage Pittsburgh Call Board: Looking Back, and Ahead to 2026
With News from City Theatre, PMT, August Wilson Center, PSO and Pittsburgh CLO, plus Goodbyes and Gratitude. City Theatre’s final production of 2025, the rolling world premiere of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, has eclipsed box-office sales records that date… Read More ›
2025: A Blockbuster Year in Pittsburgh Theater
In the year that was, the future of three companies takes center stage, Saige Smith hits a series of high notes, “The Shark Is Broken” goes swimmingly for barebones, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company delivers August Wilson triple play, Karla Boos announces Quantum exit, Arts Landing is readied for its closeup, and much, much more.
Review: ‘Little Women’s’ Enduring Legacy on Display at City Theatre
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 Don ‘Hedwig’ Mantle for City Theatre and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
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.
onStage Pittsburgh Call Board: November 20, 2025
Call Board News and Notes: MCG Jazz’s Marty Ashby Honored, Ticket Scams, Resonance Works, Front Porch Cabaret, New Hazlett Premiere, Quantum’s Enron and More
Home for the Holidays: Christmas On Pittsburgh Stages
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.
City Theatre Premieres Alcott/Gunderson ‘Little Women’
“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.