City Rewinds: 50 Years of New Plays‘ provides a decade-by-decade retrospective of the organization’s most beloved shows. City Theatre’s new reading series that celebrates some of the company’s audiences’ favorite productions from the past 50 years. City has dug into… Read More ›
Tamara Tunie, Tami Dixon and More Join Forces to Save a Stumbling Presidency City Theatre is getting ready to open its 50th season with an election-season farce, featuring a cast of formidable women who together keep a fictional administration afloat…. Read More ›
City Theatre and three regional partners have commissioned Lauren Gunderson, one of America’s most-produced playwrights, to adapt Little Women for a coast-to-coast launch. In partnership with Northlight Theatre (Skokie, Illinois), People’s Light (Malvern, PA) and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (Palo Alto,… Read More ›
By MARIA SCIULLO It’s a beautiful day out, and no one wants to be in Room 205. Especially Sister. But here we are, sitting up straight, spitting out our gum and trying to avoid her hawk-like gaze. Welcome to Sister’s… Read More ›
2024-25 will include DNAWORKS’ The Real James Bond … Was Dominican’ City Theatre kicked off the month of May by completing the lineup for 2024-25, the South Side company’s 50th anniversary season. Added to the five-play subscription series is DNAWORKS’… Read More ›
City Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater are co-hosts of the 2024 spring meeting of the League of Resident Theatres, being held starting today, May 1-3, in Downtown Pittsburgh The gathering at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco in Downtown Pittsburgh represents more… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Blending bold brushstrokes of historic events with insightful artistic license, Andy Warhol in Iran prods and pokes at a topical piñata, unleashing debates over art, politics, colonialism, revolution … all in 80 taut minutes, between two unlikely… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON It won’t be long before Marc Masterson wakes up to new adventures and some well-earned “me” time, and without the exhilaration and headaches of running a theater company. Just now, however, he’s in the thick of what… Read More ›
The finale of City Theatre’s 2023-24 season imagines an encounter between famed pop artist Andy Warhol and a young Iranian radical during an improbable-but-true trip, when the Pittsburgh native traveled to Iran to take Polaroid pictures of the Shah’s wife. … Read More ›
By BOB HOOVER “They staged a play, and a party broke out,” said a patron at City Theatre on March 8 at the Pittsburgh premiere of Fat Ham, the boisterous, in-your-face version of Hamlet – without the handwringing. In front of a packed… Read More ›
