City Theatre heads into the 2025-2026 season with an expansive five-show subscription lineup that features three world premieres, a Pittsburgh premiere, a revival in the heart of the Pittsburgh Cultural District, plus a visit from the improv troupe Second City, making its South Side debut.
By SHARON EBERSON City Theatre has answered the question, “Where to begin?,” as it launches its 50th season this weekend, with the official opening of POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. That… Read More ›
2024-25 Season Includes New Reading Series, ‘POTUS,’ Pemberley for the Holidays and Celebratory Events City Theatre is gearing up for its 50th season with the announcement of four of five productions, plus special events such as the new reading series… Read More ›
Marc Masterson will retire from City Theatre at the end of the current season, leaving the Pittsburgh artistic home where he was the foundation of a groundbreaking trio of co-artistic directors, with Clare Drobot and Monteze Freeland. Masterson led City… Read More ›
Limited Run Now to August 20th at Carnegie Stage By JESSICA NEU Throughline Theatre Company’s unique production is based on the Living Newspapers productions from the 1930s. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted the Federal Theater Project as part of the Works… Read More ›
By Sharon Ebderson Tacy Byham and Tomé Cousin were recipients of City Theatre’s annual Robert M. Frankel Awards today, May 20. The awards, bestowed since 1994, are named for the longtime City board leader and were established “to recognize artists… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON It’s the merry month of May on your calendar but it’s March Madness onstage at City Theatre. In his new play American Fast, Kareem Fahmy puts the NCAA Basketball Championships on collision course with Ramadan and star… Read More ›
Talking Trash By Sharon Eberson Before the pandemic shone a spotlight on jobs we now think of as essential, playwright Lindsay Joelle focused on those workers who remove our former treasures and stinky trash and allow us to get on… Read More ›
