onSTAGE PITTSBURGH CALL BOARD:
RIP Dr. Nancy D. Washington; ‘Fishy Woo Woo, Part 2′ at PPTC’, ‘ City Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival & ‘in Clay’ on Home Screens, Casting at Stage 62, Quantum Theatre, & Midnight Radio; Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Byham.
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.
By SHARON EBERSON Repulsing the Monkey is coming home to the South Side. The play with the memorable name, about the fate of a family-owned tavern on the Slopes, had its first staged reading at the University of Pittsburgh 10… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON A magazine article that cast James Bond in a new light changed Christopher Rivas’ life. Vanity Fair wasn’t the first to write that Ian Fleming’s enduring 007 character was inspired by the life of Porfirio Rubirosa, a… 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 ›
By J VRANISH, originally posted on Dance Currents at https://dancecurrents.com I have come to look forward to choreographer Beth Corning’s next curiosity, that is, what aspect of the world she will question, deconstruct and ultimately expose to her audiences. Yes, Corning… Read More ›
Corning Works returns to City Theatre’s Lillie Theatre with a multidisciplinary dance theater work strategically created for an intimately sized theater—for intimately sized audiences of 50—up close and very personal, allowing audiences to feel part of the “conversation” rather than just “witnessing” it. With this newest production, what… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON At the end of a decade marked by a pandemic, the opioid crisis and ideological division, we all could use a big hope-filled hug. In South Side Stories Revisited, the sequel to her extraordinary 2012 theatrical chronicle… Read More ›
Belfast Company Kabosh Theatre’s Production About Finding Understanding Amid Conflict Comes to Pittsburgh By SHARON EBERSON An officer in a green uniform, on one side of a 30-year conflict, and another in blue, on the other side of the border,… Read More ›
